The Group, makes it fun.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

help with Group Gone Diving

 I need some feed back on local shore dives. Places you want to try or want to go to. Jake and I did 100 foot rock which was good but was a challenging hike anyone up for that?

Monday, November 24, 2008

Dive Buddies Weekly

Well, hopefully people are getting something out of this...

Here's the thread for Nov. 24 - 30.

Shout out, find a buddy! (When/Where do YOU wanna go diving?)

Hope everyone has a Thanksgiving full of thanks and giving! And stuffing.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Jingle Bell Dive


The Charter Boat Trip on December 13 aboad the Naknek (pronounced Knack-Neck) is hereby officialy proclaimed as the "Jingle Bell Dive".  What is the Jingle Bell Dive you say?  Well this dive happens to take place the same day as the Jingle Bell run, so I stole the idea.  Please adorn your scuba gear with jingle bells or other Christmas related items.

We also thought it would be cool to have people bring food to donate to the Bellingham Food Bank.  If you are able, please bring a non-perishable item and I will bring it by the Food Bank when we get back from the charter.


Monday, November 17, 2008

Diving Buddies Weekly!

Here we go, for the week of November 17th, through the 23rd !

Who wants to go diving?

Who's got the "urge to submerge"??

Shout out your when/where('s) and find a like minded buddy to dive with!

How cool is that? Real cool. That's how. REAL cool.

Friday, November 14, 2008

November Bench Dive

Bench divers get yourselves ready for a non-diving activity. Park Bowl up on the Guide. Wedensday, (November 19th) at 6:30pm. Bowling, pool, video games and food/drink. Let me know who is coming so we can get right amount of lanes.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

What's On Your Wishlist??

The holidays are coming soon so it's time to make your [Insert holiday Here] Wishlist.  Here is what's on my wishlist:

Drysuit (Looking at Apollo, which Charlynn can get now)
Hood
Weights
Pony Bottle
Safety Sausage 
Dive Alert
Deep Diver Certification 

What's on your wishlist?

Diving Buddies Weekly!

Here's the next in the great line of posts for finding dive buddies, for this week to Sunday the 16th...

Where/when do you want to dive?

Post your desires and find a buddy! Or read a post of someone else's and go, "Hey, that sounds awesome, I can go diving then, we should buddy-up!"

(I'm planning on riding the Sea Dragon going on a similar-but-different charter boat this weekend! Wheeeeeee!! It's all fulled up now; if you can't make it this time, ask me--or anyone else that went--later how awesome it was so you can wish you would've gone!). Maybe next time the Sea Dragon will work out...

But HEY! Look at this!

Lots of people, places and fun for diving out there...

Shout out and find a buddy!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Gman's Adventures

hola everyone,

today is our final day in colombia as we are flying to Lima, Peru tomarrow. we had many an adventure in colombia: diving, snorkling, hiking to ancient cities, chasing insects, hanging with the locals, exotic fruits, paragliding, repelling down waterfalls, river rafting, cliff jumping, spalunking, canyoning, museums, we even climbed a mountain to Laguna de Iguaque where, legend has is, a woman emerged from its waters carrying a child and when the child was old enough they married and gave birth to the earth's population, we beat mario cart on the wii, and aparently i can dance salsa... who knew? seriously, anyone?

we will be spending a few days in Lima and perhaps try to surf the coast until we fly to Iquitos, which sits at 170m in the Amazon Basin. there we will be spending the weekends and seeing the sights and monday through friday we will be working with a volunteer organization called desarolloamazonico. this involves a 45min boat ride up the amazon river to a small pueblo called santa clara 2 zone where we will be living with a host family and helping with agricultural work and development as well as educating the locals in environmental preservation, sustainability, and english. we are supposed to be teaching them many things but something tells me that there is no way that they will get out of it what warren and i will. we are very excited to be adventuring into the amazon and the head of this organization is an entomologist himself so we'll have someone to chase bugs with.

i hope to be constructing a tejo course when i get back, its a game they play here that's a lot like horeshoes, but with firecrackers.

love johnnnnnn

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Group Gone Diving report from Langly tire reef

I just got home from a great day of diving. 9 of us went to the tire reef today.  Myself, the Hoyts, McNett girls, Trevor and Lindsey, Carrie Anne and Rebecca.  We had  good vis. about 30 feet and saw so many different fish I couldn't keep track. The great thing is that it did not rain on us and the open water class shared their hot dogs with us. It was so much fun to hang out with 18 other divers. Some of the gang went to the Longhorn in Bow afterwards. Congratulations to the new divers, see you underwater soon.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Diving Buddy Weekly

Here's the new thread for seeking Diving Buddies for the weekend (or other mutually beneficial date for diving) for the week of November 3.

Post your interest in location and preferred date(s).

Let others know you got the Urge to Submerge!

Find a dive buddy!