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Post by cnotthoff on Aug 30, 2023 15:50:31 GMT -8
Is St. Nicholas Island a part of the Farallon Islands? I dove there as a PJ, and the USAF flew us there. We spent several days there, and it was great diving. I got some humungous abalone too! It is a Naval island that was used for bombing during WWII, and so is restricted for visitors. But wonderful diving! John John, San Nicholas is one of the Channel Islands off Southern California. The Farallons (a good name for a dive equipment manufacturer) are off San Francisco Bay, and are well known for visits from white sharks. When I lived on Catalina, we really wanted to dive San Nicholas. For the reasons you mentioned, civilians were not allowed near. That was another lucky place you got to dive. Good Dives, Charlie |
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Post by scubalawyer on Aug 30, 2023 16:20:23 GMT -8
Is St. Nicholas Island a part of the Farallon Islands? I dove there as a PJ, and the USAF flew us there. We spent several days there, and it was great diving. I got some humungous abalone too! It is a Naval island that was used for bombing during WWII, and so is restricted for visitors. But wonderful diving! John John, San Nicholas is one of the Channel Islands off Southern California. The Farallons (a good name for a dive equipment manufacturer) are off San Francisco Bay, and are well known for visits from white sharks. When I lived on Catalina, we really wanted to dive San Nicholas. For the reasons you mentioned, civilians were not allowed near. That was another lucky place you got to dive. Good Dives, Charlie San Nicolas Island is Military controlled and the near-shore is divided on the charts as Alpha, Bravo and Charlie areas. Alpha is closed to the public, no boating, no diving. Too much unexploded ordinance and comm cables on the bottom. Bravo is accessible by the public for boating and diving as long as you radio ahead and they grant permission. Just depends on what operations they have going on at the moment. Charlie area, which includes the great anchorage at Dutch Harbor, is always open to the public unless a specific Notice to Mariners has been issued, which is rare. I've dove San Nicholas over 100 times on private boats. Only one time did we get kicked out of Charlie area. They were towing targets for the jets out of Miramar to strafe/bomb/blow up and they did not want us in the area. I also did several cattleboat trips for lobster to San Nic. Fantastic diving! |
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 18, 2023 14:34:54 GMT -8
I recently saw a shirt that said, "I used to be a people person, but people ruined it", I usually feel that way, but things like this give me some hope:
JB
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Post by SeaRat on Sept 18, 2023 17:05:18 GMT -8
JB,
I saw that on the news, but not with the sound. That gals voice adds to the drama.
Thanks,
John
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Sept 19, 2023 0:00:03 GMT -8
This Princess of Wales inflating-lifejacket story was a mood-lightening item here on the TV news this morning:
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Post by SeaRat on Sept 21, 2023 16:41:16 GMT -8
I just found this clip from the movie, Underwater, that uses the actors that are in the book, Dive, The Complete Book of Skin Diving, from 1955.
The equipment, including the home-made scuba harnesses, are in that book.
John
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Post by nikeajax on Oct 19, 2023 8:43:26 GMT -8
So, this morning at around 3:30, my wife's phone woke us up telling us that there was going to an earthquake in a matter of seconds... Turns out that it was a test, but was set off accidentally too  My brain is rather deep-fried today, so I thought I'd share this, nothing at all to do with EQ's though... JB |
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Post by antique diver on Oct 27, 2023 14:20:23 GMT -8
Who would have thought that seeing this gnarly thing from the 50's would make me smile?  Well, after long years of being lost in a box of stuff, I ran into my first very own diving mouthpiece. This m/p was lifted from my first snorkel from a previous year or so before putting this together in 1957 on the breathing end of a 50' green plastic garden hose of my homemade hookah rig. Used a cut off balloon for exhaling valve on the other end. So as pleasant memories kicked in I could almost smell and taste that plastic hose again. Happy times! |
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Post by vance on Oct 27, 2023 15:33:08 GMT -8
Sweet! It looks like what a kid would make in the '50s! What is that Tee fitting? It reminds me of my own (many) attempts to sit at the bottom of a swimming pool, breathing through a garden hose. I learned from personal experience that you're ability to suck in air by lung power is miniscule without some kind of pressure feed. What provided the air pressure and regulation on this hookah setup? Did you hook up a refrigerator compressor to your Dad's lawnmower?  |
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Post by nikeajax on Oct 27, 2023 15:41:16 GMT -8
Bill, it looks fungle, like a mushroom  Either that, or something from a 1960's sci-fi book-cover, that weird juxtaposition between industrial and organic... JB |
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Post by antique diver on Oct 27, 2023 17:02:25 GMT -8
Sweet! It looks like what a kid would make in the '50s! What is that Tee fitting? It reminds me of my own (many) attempts to sit at the bottom of a swimming pool, breathing through a garden hose. I learned from personal experience that you're ability to suck in air by lung power is miniscule without some kind of pressure feed. What provided the air pressure and regulation on this hookah setup? Did you hook up a refrigerator compressor to your Dad's lawnmower? Tee is a standard plastic pipe fitting, typically used with water. Yeah, I tried the lung powered approach, but you know how well that worked out. So... At age 11 saved my lawn mowing money and bought a used paint spray compressor, lawn mower engine, and garden hose. Set it on a floating platform and had a ball. |
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Post by antique diver on Oct 27, 2023 17:03:55 GMT -8
Bill, it looks fungle, like a mushroom Either that, or something from a 1960's sci-fi book-cover, that weird juxtaposition between industrial and organic... JB It looks really bad, and hard as the plastic tee. Maybe I can soften it up with wintergreen oil and make one more dive with it!  |
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Post by vance on Oct 27, 2023 17:15:26 GMT -8
Don't do it, Bill! The diluter is wild enough! Shouldn't push your luck THAT far....  |
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Post by nikeajax on Oct 28, 2023 15:56:58 GMT -8
Bill, it looks fungle, like a mushroom Either that, or something from a 1960's sci-fi book-cover, that weird juxtaposition between industrial and organic... JB It looks really bad, and hard as the plastic tee. Maybe I can soften it up with wintergreen oil and make one more dive with it! Dang Bill, you sound like a Healthways-owner when you say sh-stuff like that  Yeah boy, c'mon, one last dive, you can do it   SIDE NOTE: I've been working on my trailer again, it's a 1959 Field & Stream: half-@$$ing old parts parts has become second nature to me, "Huh, welllll, maybe if I...." JB |
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Post by antique diver on Oct 28, 2023 19:42:54 GMT -8
It looks really bad, and hard as the plastic tee. Maybe I can soften it up with wintergreen oil and make one more dive with it! Dang Bill, you sound like a Healthways-owner when you say sh-stuff like that Yeah boy, c'mon, one last dive, you can do it SIDE NOTE: I've been working on my trailer again, it's a 1959 Field & Stream: half-@$$ing old parts parts has become second nature to me, "Huh, welllll, maybe if I...." JB OK, you're about to talk me into it! I could run a garden hose off a Scuba cylinder on the pier and somehow maybe hold the mouthpiece well enough to spend a few minutes looking for lost sunglasses, jewelry and stuff swimmers keep losing there. How about some photos of your trailer? I've heard of those but never saw a picture that I recall. |
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My brain is rather deep-fried today, so I thought I'd share this, nothing at all to do with EQ's though...
Either that, or something from a 1960's sci-fi book-cover, that weird juxtaposition between industrial and organic...
Yeah boy, c'mon, one last dive, you can do it 
