Our group dove the Edmonds Underwater Park a while back and even now, if I sit still enough, I can still feel the waves pushing me along in their hypnotizing seductive rhythm.
The dive was almost called off due to waves so high they were creating whitecaps, but I spotted a guy who I took classes [...]
From my 2005 dive adventures:
I spent all day Saturday underwater (well, it felt like it) up in Mukilteo and then another dive down on Alki Beach because I missed the first dive in Mukilteo because I forgot my fins. The truly sad thing about that situation is that I didn’t realize that I’d forgotten my [...]
From a dive trip in September of ‘05:
Last weekend was absolutely gorgeous (and, of course, fraught with danger)! I took a 2-day trip to San Juan Island, which is a 2-hour drive and then a 1.5-hour ferry ride away from Seattle and feels like a completely different universe. I swear, we drove off the ferry [...]
One very late December morning 4 friends and I decided to send the year off with a bang (a chilly, damp bang) by hopping in the Puget Sound and poking around for a couple hours. That sounds like far less fun than it actually was…
What should have tipped me off about the coming adventure was [...]
This is what I wrote immediately after my first non-class-related SCUBA dive in 2005, which also happened to be the very first MHO SCUBA group outing. I should mention that there were two divemasters along, so I technically wasn’t leading very much (which is a good thing, as you will soon discover):
The Edmonds Underwater [...]
I have never been so excited to see a nondescript aluminum canister of compressed air. Even its torn, faded stickers are creating a rather alarming urge to clap my hands and giggle like a little girl.
My name is Janelle and I’m the resident SCUBA guide. My last name is Baarspul but given that it’s [...]