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Hi Scuba_chicck, One other thing that I don't think was commented on - it sounds like you were using a rental wetsuit. Were you using the same rental wetsuit for both dives? I was told that over their lifetime, wetsuits slowly lose some buoyancy. Two different 5 mm wetsuits aren't...

Hi Chris, As others have said, you will quickly develop more confidence in your diving and better skills (particularly kicking without silting up) than divers not dealing with low vis. As an added bonus, you'll probably be more prepared for your first night dive. They're really fun at...

Since this is the new divers forum, I feel compelled to post the generic warning/reminder about overhead diving and wreck penetration. If you are going to be diving around the outside of wrecks and just want to peek in from the outside, then all you need is lights, if that. The suggestion of...

It looked to me as if during the final mission, some of the divers were using split fins and others were using paddle fins (perhaps jet fins), and force fins as described above. This surprised me, given that I always thought that the military branches liked to have very standardized sets of...

I've got to agree with mpetryk. The amount of energy that an organism would have to burn to compete with daylight would be absolutely enormous. When you perform biological assays involving luciferase (a bioluminescent protein), generally the container is colored white so that any light...

Hi Aerosynth, I would suggest that you not get too worried about all of the certifications that are out there. As mentioned by Garrobo, many of the classes/certs are not as necessary as PADI would have you believe. It's been a while, but I think one of the more useful things from my AOW was...

I second (or third) the cautions that PfcAJ and TSandM made. It's also important that an SO is diving because s/he genuinely enjoys it and that they are not just diving because of you. On a trip a few years ago, we met a couple on the dive boat. He was an instructor and had taught his...

Hi, With the recent discussion on the incidents/accidents forum about immersion pulmonary edema, I decided to take a look at the research on the topic on pubmed.gov. Somewhat surprisingly, there were 50 or so papers on the topic (I was expecting many fewer). Anyway, there was one paper that...

Very cool video! That wreck is in really nice shape. Dare I ask how deep it was? (Not that I've tried diving in Lk Washington yet)

We just got back from Barbados last week, but haven't had a chance to file a full trip report. We dove with Eco Dive Barbados and really enjoyed the experience. They are out of Bridgetown and run a 6-pack boat. I second Rich's recommendation of Carlisle Bay. There is a really nice variety of...

Rocky, That looks like a gunnel to me. The closest match that I could find in my fish book was a crescent gunnel. The description that I see, they tend to be skittish around divers and prefer to come out at night.

Yeah, I'm the guy with the 5050. Gotta get myself an external strobe at some point. I have to admit that I can use a few digital darkroom tricks (mostly just linear level adjusts), but the sharpening methods discussed seem to be quite helpful on some of my recent RAW images. I have a feeling...

I just attended the June meeting, so I figured that I'd give this thread a bump. I had a great time and Pat's sharpening demo was very helpful, as I'm trying to make the switch to shooting raw. It was great to meet more experienced UW photographers and see some of the beautiful new (to me)...

What dwaters said. When I was just starting out, I found that I was trying too hard to get my buoyancy right. I got frustrated and my buoyancy and air consumption went to :bomb: Relax and treat every dive as a success. Your skills will slowly improve as will your breathing.

Thanks Kirsten. I'll have to see about finding those. My wife got me the Humann and Deloach "Coastal Fish Identification" and "Coast Fishes of the PNW" by Lamb and Edgell. The last time we were at the Seattle aquarium, they had another book that had some good ID info in it, but I didn't have...

Hi all, I finally got the courage to take my camera diving in the sound at the Edmonds Underwater Park. Predictably, there were a lot of Lingcod and Cabezon hanging about, but we weren't getting too close to them. I did get some pictures that we're having trouble identifying. Can anyone...

Our first attempted dive in the PNW was a complete disaster. We set up our kits and brought them down to the dive site (we used to do this when diving lakes & quarries). Then we put our new drysuits on. BIG MISTAKE. The tide was coming in. So, the waves were fouling our 2nd stages and the BC...

I moved to the Seattle area a couple of years ago and it was a bit of culture shock learning to dive with the Puget Sound currents. I took a tides/current class through Underwater Sports. They've got a tides/currents book from Pelagia Scuba (Pelagia Scuba) that really helps with the dive...

Did he have sinus problems as a child? On airplanes? Perhaps you can find an Ear/Nose/Throat Specialist doctor in your area that could help. If he's in pain, that's bad news. It's likely that he'll eventually hurt himself. On the last day of diving a liveaboard trip in the bahamas...

Hi gdog, Thanks very much for the link. We've got a copy of the Northwest Shore Diving, so we're slowly trying to branch out to new sites. Actually, we didn't make it onto the water today - but we went to the aquarium instead.