Scuba Diving, What I've been up to recently

Lately I've been swamped with college course work, and haven't had the opportunity to get out snowboarding and hiking. I have though picked the sport of scuba diving back up. I haven't been in almost 4 years after being stationed in Arizona, partially due to the fact that all my gear was stolen. After 2 years of slowly shopping craigslist and recollecting my gear... I've finally started diving again. The nice thing about diving is that I'm surrounded by shore diving spots where I live. So all it takes is a couple hours of my time and I can run to a local dive spot and hop into the cool Puget Sound waters and enjoy the weightless feeling along with the exploration of the underwater world. All in a matter of hours, and it doesn't take up my whole day, so it leaves me with plenty of time to study. So by no means have I not been busy exploring, but I haven't had the time to make blog entries. Here's an overview of some of the more recent dives.

first dives in over 4 years.
Les Davis, Tacoma, WA
Off of Ruston Way in Tacoma there are several dive sites, this particular one is fairly benign to current but subjected to the mud outflows of the Puyallup River. Luckily the 6 or 7 dives I've got to do here have had fairly decent visibility of 20 to 40+ feet. Features here are alarge tractor tire, a small rubble pile in ~25 feet of water and a large rubble pile in 30 to 80 feet of water. The rubble pile consists of debris from the old narrows bridge.

Edmonds Underwater Park
What can I say, nothing but exploration. The crew up in Edmonds that maintains this wreak has everything from rubble, to old hwy 520 bridge pontoons, to tug boats, to small ships... All I can say is the 2 short dives we did here were not enough. Hence why we are going there for 3 dives on the weekend of my birthday.






Harper's Ferry, Port Orchard, WA
has 2 wrecks that are easy to navigate to with a guide line from the end of the Harper's Ferry Fishing Pier. One larger 40+ foot wreck and a small 10 to 15 foot little boat. It was an excellent dive with excellent 30+ feet of visibility.

and more Les Davis, Tacoma, WA

I'll try to keep up the blog updates at a consistent rate, but I'm diving a lot and swamped with school work. Hopefully by march when I start getting some more hiking in I'll get more time to post the blogs. Other blogs to watch out for is a DIY canister dive light. I'm working on building a remote canister dive light that will be putting out 500 to 600 lumen, and be powered by a remote canister attached to my bc, while the light will be attached to a goodman handle on my hand. Also a scuba gear list post.

All underwater pictures taken by Sonia Brugger.