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  1. Captain Ron

    Deep Sea Charters Sold!

    David and Michelle are still the current owners of the Vessel Deep Sea and Deep Sea charters. The prospective buyers had a change of job locations that took them out of state. We will be running a limited number of charters through local dive shops in the Puget Sound this fall and winter and...
  2. Captain Ron

    Deep Sea Charters Sold!

    Deep Sea Charters of Anacortes owned by David and Michelle Patterson has been sold. The new owners, to be announced at a later date, will be operating the vessel from the same location in Anacortes Washington starting on September 15th, 2007. The Vessel is located at the Cap Sante Boat Haven on...
  3. Captain Ron

    List of Acronyms

    this has probly been posted before. The gaps are the not so clean ones that I removed. :zahn: AFAIC As far as I'm concerned AFAIK As Far As I Know AFK Away From Keyboard AKA Also Known As ASAP As Soon As Possible BAK Back At Keyboard BBL Be Back Later...
  4. Captain Ron

    future teen diver

    ORCAchicks on the phone again. What she ment to tell you is that the water is cold. It stays around 44 in the winter and 55deg.F in the summer, a dry suit is a must in the winter, you can use a two-piece wet suit in the summer. Most divers including ORCAchick use a drysuit all year long...
  5. Captain Ron

    Wierd Stuff

    While diving at keystone with my buddy I spotted in the distance something swimming to us. I got the attention of my bud and we swam toward the critter. Vis was around 20 feet. To make a long story short the "swimming critter turned out to be a dead goat in the current, kind'a freeked us out a...
  6. Captain Ron

    NEW!!! PST LP 80 Need opinion!!!

    I have 10ea LP80s on my boat and 4 of them came with the 200bar yoke/din valve. For what I use them for (Charter Tanks) they are great. We always fill our tanks to 2800psi with our on board compressor. Once cooled we get 2600+/-psi. If I am using the tank I will fill it to 3000psi to add some...
  7. Captain Ron

    Stage bottle types Al or steel

    Looks like I'll be cleaning a couple of my Al 80's and picking up a couple of 40's. I'll be back with more questions after I get back from the dive store. Don't tell my wife were I'm going.LOL:eyebrow:
  8. Captain Ron

    Hi From the San Juan Islands USA!

    I lost you in bad vis. Were Did you go. LOL. I'm at tech Talk. Glad to see you have everything figured out. Want to go diving? We'll talk at dinner. You have snot on your cheek. Wipe it off. LOL :11:
  9. Captain Ron

    future teen diver

    My little girl (14) is now and open water diver. I'll hook her up with this thread and you can talk. She also is crazy about sharks and Orcas. We live by the Puget Sound in Washington State and have a charter boat that takes people Diving and Whale watching! We have 83 resident Orca whales in...
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    Stage bottle types Al or steel

    I was informened that the Steel LP 65s that I was planning on using may not be the best choice. I was told by someone that I trust that the neg. boyancy of the steel tanks can cause problems and that AL tanks are better for stage. Please explain. See: Size of doubles thread. Thanks
  11. Captain Ron

    Size of Doubles

    Let me clear up a few things. First befor I get in open water I always test new gear in a pool, not much in to the ooops factor especialy now that I am moving into the world of tech. I do live in Washington State and yes Dive in the San Juan Islands in 45-55deg water in a dry suit. We do...
  12. Captain Ron

    finished my first Rescue class ...

    I enjoyed taking the class a couple years ago and being tormented...kinda sick in the head I suppose.
  13. Captain Ron

    Size of Doubles

    WOW! Lots of Info. I will be reading this thread a couple more times. My dive buddy is using a pair of PST HP 80's and has a similar air consumption rate. I ordered a Dive Rite Transplate harness (SS back plate) with 51lb. rec wings and an 8lb V weight. I also picked up a pair of nonditchable...
  14. Captain Ron

    Size of Doubles

    I'm just getting into Tech. Are the twin Faber LP85s I just purchased going to be enough for begining DECO? Too much? Should I go bigger? Smaller? My air consumption, I have found is below avarage for sport divers. Is there a baseline for air consumption that will help figure this all out. Have...
  15. Captain Ron

    Banded v. Unbanded Wings

    I'm getting a DR/back plate and my first set of twins and after reading all the threads I'll be getting the banded wings. If I end up not liking the bands... I'll remove them. thanks for the info
  16. Captain Ron

    Orca spots????

    Contact Deep Sea Charters out of Anacortes Washington. They have a charter going out (whale watch) on Oct. 29th. If you are a researcher they may let you go for free! I know for a fact that they will not let you in the water. I'll talk to my friend Ken Balcomb from the center for whale research...
  17. Captain Ron

    wreck diving in Puget Sound?

    Run down and talk to Randy at Starfish Diving in Seattle he'll hook you up with the local wreck info.
  18. Captain Ron

    Orca spots????

    The resident orcas (pods J, K and L) hang out at the south side of San Juan Island a lot of the time. K and L will be heading out to the ocean in a month or so for the remainder of the year. J pod will stay behind and head south a bit toward the Edmonds area in late November and make a trip to...
  19. Captain Ron

    new to these here waters

    Park'n the boat for the first time.
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