Welcome to ScubaBoard, an online scuba diving forum community where you can join over 95,000 divers from around the world discussing all things related to Scuba Diving. To gain full access to ScubaBoard you must register for a free account.
As a registered member you will be able to:
Participate in over 500 dive topic forums and browse from over 2,975,000 posts.
Communicate privately with other divers from around the world.
Post your own photos or view from 75,000 user submitted images.
Gain access to our free classifieds marketplace to buy, sell and trade gear, travel and services.
Use the calendar to organize your events and enroll in other members' events.
All this and much more is available to you absolutely free when you register for an account, so sign up today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact the ScubaBoard Support Team.
Shows and EventsPast and present, local and global Dive Shows and Events including Beneath the Sea, Boot, DEMA, Duikvaker, Our World Underwater, SCUBA Show, and others! Read it all here.
ScubaBoard will be attending, and you should too. It's the first annual Northwest Dive and Travel Expo - May 3 and 4th at the Tacoma Convention Center in Tacoma, WA.
We don't have our booth number yet, but it sure sounds like it's going to be a great show. There's a lot of exhibitors (especially for a first year event) and lots of cool activities.
Everytime a dive show rolls around, I always feel a little bummed that I won't get a chance to meet any of the Scubaboarders. We haven't been participating in a lot of shows the past few years, but we will be in Tacoma. Come by the USIA booth which I believe is 84 and tell me you are a Scubaboarder and I'll hook you up with a hat or t-shirt.
Michelle and I arrived at SEA-TAC last night. Michelle has never been to Washington before, and is blown away by the beauty of the scenery here. It was a beautiful evening. We drove down to Tacoma, and stopped and met up with NWGratefulDiver for dinner which was also great! Thanks again Bob for a wonderful evening. We're looking forward to heading up to Seattle for a little while today, then setting up for the show which begins tomorrow!
Stop by Booth 128 for Optical Ocean Sales display of all sorts of uw photo goodies, Fantasea Line products, dive lights. Custom systems using my own trays and arms. Lots of new housings for digicams and a D40 (D60) DSLR system. All on sale with free shipping.
Hey, BajaDivers.com will be at the show tomorrow (Saturday) and we hope to meet you all. We don't have a booth THIS year, but you can bet we will next year.
We'll try to say "Hi!" to as many of the exhibitors as we can. My publisher (and wife!) will be packing along a set of my Seeds of Civilization series of novels, because the last two involve a lot of diving and have sold well in Scuba shops. I, of course, will be representing BajaDivers.com and looking for more Baja-based dive operators to add to our growing list.
Friday Night was a great kick off for the weekend. NW Dive News hosted a nice get together at the convention center for industry people, and then many people went to a great restaurant on the water here in Tacoma.
The show looks great. There's a huge amount of vendors for a first year show! I'll try to post some pictures later!
What a day! Cheng and I decided to get up early and go for a splash at Redondo before heading off to the show. Got in a nice, 73 minute dive ... came home, changed and an hour later were pulling into the Convention Center. One of the first stops was the ScubaBoard booth ... conveniently located so as to be just about the first thing you saw as you were entering the show. Howard was off schmoozing ... and Michelle was hard at work introducing lots of folks to ScubaBoard. I was just talkative (now THERE'S a surprise!).
This was the first real scuba show we've had in the area since I've been diving, and if today was any indication it was a raging success. I spent the entire day wandering from booth to booth, and couldn't believe how many folks I ran into that I'd only ever known before on the Internet. Was great to finally put so many faces to names ... and screen names.
Lots-o-fun ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
__________________
"Diving...is an active, physical form of meditation. It's so silent - you're like a thought."
Jerry Garcia
My husband and I were there for awhile in the morning and had a great time checking out the booths, seeing all the people in the pool, picking up a bunch of information on travel, and checking out our (likely) new wetsuit in person. Good show and we were glad to have made the drive up from the Portland area.
Good show and we were glad to have made the drive up from the Portland area.
Linear Mode
