Holy wetsuit Mike Nelson!!!
Miranda Alldritt
desperately seeking attention, we did some awesome diving down in Hood
Canal this weekend.
I picked up Steve Danaher from the Victoria ferry and we drove down to
Hoodsport where we met Scott and my buddy, Kurt.
Kurt and I did a total of five dives. Scott joined us for two of those
and Steve for three.
Happy, easy diving. Apart from one dive where we were practicing skills
and I almost lost my lighthead (yikes! that was almost very expensive!)
and discovered the buddy breathing with a Rite Bite mouthpiece is pretty
tough.
We saw two octopus, one of whom was sitting on eggs, three wolf eels,
some moon snails, tons of nudibranchs of various types, squat lobsters
everywhere, Dungies and red rock crabs.
We ate lots of good food, enjoyed some great company and, managed to get
some beauty rest into the bargain.
Between the four of us, diving 36% all weekend, we used up all the O2 in
Scott's store.
Met Jammer in Edmonds Sunday afternoon but he pointed at the low tide
and wasn't into diving. Some runbling about diving with strokes, I
think <g>. Ah well, we had a good dinner. Planked halibut.
Diving again tonight, I checked out a wall I'd been eyeing for a while.
Got to the awesome depth of 46ft! Lots of life but no viz. All in all,
I was happy to get wet.
Miranda
--
"...the sea has no compassion, no faith, no law, no memory.
Its fickleness is to be held true to men's purposes only by an
undaunted resolution and by a sleepless, armed, jealous
vigilance...."
Pmcduffee
How about some diving posts.
Surely someone made a dive this past weekend.
How was it, where'd you go, what was neat about it. How about that fantastic
pix that you got. Post it at alt.binaries.images.underwater so that we may see
what you have been doing, or tell us about your web page.
What did you learn and care to share?
What'd ya mess up and care to pass on to others so that we won't make the same
mistakes?
Care to explain your mix and the selection there of for a particular dive? Why
did you use that mix? How and why did you calculate the mix?
Why does MHK dive in shorts in the Channel Islands? Hell, how can MHK dive in
shorts in the Channel Islands? (:))
Where's Barney and Michael Young? Perry we know.
Why has rec.scuba become rec.scuba.nra.shoot.a.glock.underwater, or
rec.scuba.the.revolutionary.war.has.started.again, or
rec.scuba.wwii.wasn't.a.team.effort?
Anybody do a dive? Me I'm not due 'till the end of May (:((
Dan V. how about the new Halcyon catalog available again in pdf format to
download, of the DIR I Video released again?
From a line in the movie War Games... How about a nice game of chess... How
about a nice dive discussion?
The DIR guys, release your tables, procdures, etc. so we can read, ask, and
learn.
Fred, I need a Padi bashing fix desperately!!!
Well, that should do for a starter.
How about it? Care to discuss diving again? Winter's over, time for the flames
to burn out, the water is warming up, and all is good again.
Right?
Pat
--
I Call you My Friend, because You are My Friend.
Pmcduffee
>Message-ID: <38F41AAB...@paralynx.com>
>Well, as Scott already alluded to in one of those threads where MJB is
>desperately seeking attention, we did some awesome diving down in Hood
>Canal this weekend.
>I picked up Steve Danaher from the Victoria ferry and we drove down to
>Hoodsport where we met Scott and my buddy, Kurt.
>Kurt and I did a total of five dives. Scott joined us for two of those
>and Steve for three.......
Aghhh, now that's more like it.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.
Sound like you had a great weekend.
.....
>Met Jammer in Edmonds Sunday afternoon but he pointed at the low tide
>and wasn't into diving. Some runbling about diving with strokes, I
>think <g>.
What else (:))
>Ah well, we had a good dinner. Planked halibut.
Mmmm. I know, lotsa tartar sauce. JUST kidding!!!
>Diving again tonight, I checked out a wall I'd been eyeing for a while.
>Got to the awesome depth of 46ft! Lots of life but no viz. All in all,
>I was happy to get wet.
>
>Miranda
Oooo you lucky devilette.
Thanks for sharing that, sooo much nicer and chock full of Ummm.
Jason O'Rourke
>Hey what's going on here?
>
>How about some diving posts.
>
>Surely someone made a dive this past weekend.
I wish. I've been fighting a cold/cough for the two weeks since I got
back from Cozumel. I still haven't gotten around to writing my review of
all the different operators (sure to be a good flamefest), or get all the
pics online. But you can see some at www.jor.com/dive/coz00.
I'll be heading to BC next weekend, so I'll have something to say after
that!
--
Jason O'Rourke j...@best.com www.jor.com
Last dive: March 25th, Yucab Reef Cozumel
60 mins at 48ft max
Steve Danaher
Where are you going in BC? Miranda, Kurt, and I dove out of Nanaimo
two weekends ago. We went out on a boat from the "Technically
Speaking" dive shop. They took us to some real good spots, and the
captain definitely knew how do drive a boat.
---Steve Danaher
>
>I wish. I've been fighting a cold/cough for the two weeks since I got
>back from Cozumel. I still haven't gotten around to writing my review of
>all the different operators (sure to be a good flamefest), or get all the
>pics online. But you can see some at www.jor.com/dive/coz00.
>
>I'll be heading to BC next weekend, so I'll have something to say after
>that!
>--
>Jason O'Rourke j...@best.com www.jor.com
>Last dive: March 25th, Yucab Reef Cozumel
>60 mins at 48ft max
Ana C.
>
>How about some diving posts.
>
>Surely someone made a dive this past weekend.
>
I did. Took friday off from work and drove 580 miles north to Panama City,
early saturday morning was in a mid size boat with a friend and 3 navy divers,
the capt of the boat warned us about rough seas and out we went,,, up there in
the gulf the sites are not as close to shore, after 1 hour of rocking and
rolling I heard the familiar melody: "we are here, pool is open" ok I only
heard we are here, for the second statetement I was in the water already,,,
cold water too, mid 60's (yep, I went dry) vis wasn't as good as the reefs on
my side of the state, but I could see plenty.
The site, called Liberty something was a huge chunk of metal at about +/-75'
there wasn't a lot of movement around, but there were loads of live Murex and
Cowries shells,, some of them really big, took a lot of will power not to take
any, as a reward for my enviromentally correct behaviour the ocean angels put a
lobster in my path, not a huge one just the right size for dinner. (and no it
wasn't a florida lobster I know the season is closed, it was the other kind the
one that looks like a walking armor)
For the surface interval I got to see how to feed fishes the "navy way"
these guys were trully disciplined, I started eating a harmless sandwich and
with perfect sincronization each moved away and proceeded to the feeding. I
have turned green on dives enough times to earn the right to laugh when is not
me, so I did.
Second dive was also pure pleasure, this site was called the "span bridge #1"
and that's what it was, the steel superstructure of a demolished bridge, filled
with lots of marine life, nice change for me also,,, I only get to see
substructures of bridges never the top side. There was nothing spectacular, I
doubt the people from TV asking around on the threads nextdoor would've found
anything to their liking but it was magnificent, one of those dives when
everything goes just right, and like always I didn't want to come up.
Unfortunately that was the middle of a serious cold front hitting the
pandhandle area, just my luck I know, and sunday dives got cancelled, something
about the capt of the boat not wanting to go out on 11 foot seas, go figure :-)
>What did you learn and care to share?
Pat I learned that no matter what happens, a pair of dives will cure it.
Ana
Mike Nelson
Hey, who called? My wet suit shrank too much a couple years ago so now
I dive dry. Got to go diving a couple weeks ago when my son was doing
his OW in Hoodsport. We had 50' vis until the 'kids' got in the water.
I got to meet Scott for the first time. We had a nice chat. Spent some
time BS'ing with Ron and Mike as well. I fondled some of their Halcyon
gear. :)
Should be diving this Saturday in Tacoma but a line drive tennis ball to
the eye is keeping me sidelined.
Regards
Mike
Pmcduffee
>Message-ID: <20000413192044...@ng-ce1.aol.com>
<snippage>
>I learned that no matter what happens, a pair of dives will cure it.
Now that's good!!!
Mind if I steal, urm use it?