November Bench Dive

Let's Go Bowling!
Wednesday, November 18th: 6:30pm
20th Century Bowl, 1411 North State Street

Bowling, Bowling, Bowling let's go bowling!!! Meet at 6:30ish at the bowling alley downtown, yo! You can eat and drink there. Welcome to all, divers and non-divers. Pretty cheap night, $2 for shoes and $3 per game (per website).

Join us! Who's in so we can get the appropriate amount of lanes?

Diving Anyone?

Anyone want to go diving this weekend? Looking for a buddy or want to join a group? What is a happening out there?

Heading to Porteau Cove, meeting @ Gone Diving 8am. Who's interested? This is Canadian's Edmonds Underwater Park.

Any other suggestions are welcomed.

Chuck

4th Annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest

October 24th • 9am @ Rosario Beach

We are going to be hosting a favorite event of ours, under water pumpkin carving. We will meet at 9am @ Rosario Beach, the carving will began @ 10am. There are rules to be followed.

1) Must have a buddy, cannot enter water by yourself. If you don't have a buddy we can provide one for you. (We must know if you need a buddy before the day of the event)
2) Bring your own pumpkin but DO NOT pre-clean/gut or pre-draw/trace your pumpkin. You may get any size you want.
3) You will have one hour to gut your pumpkin (on land), trace (if you desire) and carve your pumpkin underwater. Only the carving will be done under the water.

We will be taking orders for long sleeve T-shirts up to the day of the contest. If you would like one please pre-pay. They are going to be black this year with orange writing.

We are going to be providing rentals only at 50% off. Must have your gear ready to go before Saturday. We will NOT be meeting at shop in the morning. Must return gear that day to get your 50% off discount. Discount will not be valid for gear returning the following day. All rentals are on a first come first serve basis.

What about after the carving? We are going to have a potluck. Bring your favorite fall dish. If you want to do a chili cook off, shout it out!

Let Chuck know if you have any questions or concerns. Get your name up on the list so we know how many are showing up.

October Bench Dive, October 21st

October Bench Dive
October 21st, 2009 • Wednesday, 6:30pm
call or stop in for directions

Turtle (Amanda) is hosting this get together. This is going to be a Fondue party, BYOF to share.

She has one fondue pot that she is making a white cheese fondue with apples. Suggestions of what we need would be an oil fondue for meat, dessert fondue and other cheese fondues are also welcome. This is also BYOB event. You may bring potluck items (fall theme) to share also with the group.

Maybe we can talk Ben into sharing his Costa Rica trip and photos. Or anybody else who has recently traveled and would like to share stories and photos.

We will also be discussing the upcoming Under Water Pumpkin Carving Contest that will be held at Rosario Beach, Saturday October 24th.

group dives for rest of the year

Oct. 17th salt water state park (tacomaish) Oct. 24th UNDERWATER pumpkin carving Deception pass state park Nov.7th Porto Cove Provincial Park (Canada) Nov. 21st Keystone Dec. 6th Scotts 40th Birthday dive Skyline Wall ( very advanced dive must be comfortable with depth and current) MUST BE IN THE WATER AT 8:30 AM!!! Jan. 2nd polar bear dive at someplace new you guys figure it out and get back to me maybe hood canal All dives leave shop at 8AM except Birthday dive that will be 7AM

No buddy needed please RSVP to the shop

Goin' Diving?

So who's going diving this weekend? Any cool spots?

Feel free to shout out if you're looking for a dive buddy.

Remember, it doesn't matter if it's raining if you're underwater...

Bahamas!!

I am back and let me just apologies now for all the !!'s to follow, I just get excited sometimes.

This trip was AWESOME!! It was sooooo much fun. I really had very low expectation for the week long cruise in the Bahamas. I was told to plan for camping on a sailboat. Since we did lots of camping this summer I was well aware of what camping was like while diving. Well, lets just say, camping is much different in the Bahamas!!

The Blackbeards, 65' sailboat the Pirates Lady was the adventure to write home about. It was amazing, the crew fabulous, and the diving and water time off the hook! If you are looking for an inexpensive weeklong diving cruise in the Bahamas with 3 meals a day, snacks, wine, Sands beer on tap, cooler full of wicked rum punch, constant nonalcoholic watering hole, up to 5 dives a day (if you are fast enough), snorkeling, free diving for lobster, fishing off the back boat, rope swinging into the sea, sitting in the sun, staring at the stars, being lulled to sleep by the sounds of the water lapping on the boat rocking you into sleep, than this is the trip for you.

We have so much stories and so many details that I was debating on how much I should indulge over this blog. Since I tend to ramble on and on and get really excited sometimes and start just making up words, I thought the best thing to do is have our next bench dive to be our Bahamas brief. We will have a slide show and story telling time. We can answer any questions you may have about traveling to the Bahamas. It was great!! I can't hardly wait to tell you all about it. Gosh, the best time was making it my goal to leave every person I talked with a smile. Customs people don't really like to smile. Especially if you are using a camera in customs, whoops. I traveled with my pony bottle through the airport which got lots of screaming in yelling when I boarded the plane, good times. And as always, when anyone first meets me they might think that I might be having a bit of a stroke with my happy hands. They are annoyed by the bubbles that ignite from my laughter. They get really really annoyed when they break out into the happy hands themselves!! Haha!

We made new friends and learned new jokes. If you haven't already seen any of the photos from the trip, it is because you are not a friend of mine on facebook. What is your hold up? So if you are looking for a sneak peak before our Bench dive, September 30th, 6:30pm. Become my friend on facebook or come by the shop and I will love to share with you our adventure. Did I tell you that it was amazing!! Cause it was!

September Bench Dive

It's been a while since we visited Extremes Sports Grill on Meridian. Since they have the video screen upstairs, Charlynn and the gang will be showing off their pictures from the Bahamas. From I have seen so far the diving was fantastic.

When: Wednesday, September 30 at 6:30 pm

Where: Extremes Sports Grill

What: Bench Dive and Bahama Brief

(That is the closest I could find to a Bahama Brief)

Bench Dive August

KICKBALL PARTY!!
August 19th, 6:30pm, Bloedel Donovan, next to train.

Austin and I are co-hosting a Kickball party for our next bench dive. Let us know if you will be joining us so we can fill up our team roster. For those that don't know Austin, he is 11 and he is awesome. He is inviting all his buddies so I need to find my buddies and beat him in a game of kick BALL!!

Who can make it? Please invite all your diver friends and most of all non-diver friends.

group gone diving

OK divers here is your chance to have some fun under water!!

Aug. 1st Brakett's landing or edmonds meet at 7:30 am

Aug. 22nd Langley tire reef for a crab cookout get your licenses and goodie bags. meet at 8AM

Sept 13th Keystone meet at 8AM.

I'm sure there will be other diving chances just ask!!!