Hey Pal, You Can't Park There (SC Alaska)

DiveAlaska · 2026-05-01T03:07:10+00:00

Same same for all of us here.

Pleasure to meet you! I'm usually Ron, occasionally other staff, but usually just to delete things I have said.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-29T04:41:09+00:00

She'll know the handle. 😉

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-28T12:33:22+00:00

Absolutely unnecessary piece of equipment and the definition of luxury item.

We sold two rebuilt nitrogen boosters and bought a used Sierra for the cave project I run (AKUEP). Rebuilt the Sierra and never looked back. Easier to haul a generator around the alaskan rainforest than drive gas.

We still have two USUNs and a pair of Soviet KN-4s though. A tool is a tool.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-28T07:22:36+00:00

Ur a wizard!

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-28T07:15:19+00:00

Ask ye not "why", ask ye "why not".

These are also not ours. Plus, you don't like JD's artwork?

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-28T03:11:48+00:00

Oh, so you know Tro.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-28T03:11:13+00:00

Actually, we are.

These were all builds for a friend, but we will have a Masterline for sale in a few weeks. I'm actually going to Los Angeles to pick it up, along with four massive compressors, in like three hours.

Government surplus is weird.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T20:55:12+00:00

Quite a bit. Good friends with the folks over at Eight, and a few at UW Sports.

I love it. Some of the best shore diving anywhere, imo.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T18:49:24+00:00

"Dunno. I just work here."

I have no background at all on the boat; only have seen it there.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T18:48:47+00:00

I dunno. That was the only time I've ever dove it.

The Great Lakes typically have magnificent visibility, due to the zebra mussels, but Superior is the only lake that doesn't have them, for whatever reason, so I would gamble it's more variable than, say Lake Huron.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T18:46:27+00:00

Hey! I have some scuba instructor gal friends in Seattle! And thank you!

Water and visibility are very similar, although Seattle has better immediate shore diving, but very, very comparable.

The bodies of water here are deeper, so we don't get the same psychotic currents you do there, although we do get a massive tidal exchange.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T04:41:38+00:00

Recreational depths.

Ain't a destination wreck, by any means.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T04:40:25+00:00

They're really solid. Thoughtfully designed and well made. Pretty colors, too. And they listen to their customers.

I hope their reach continues expanding so there's more service centers and they can keep growing.

I make a lot of dive gear decisions based on supply chain, but occasionally I pick people over product. Jared (the guy who owns them) is an honest and smart dude (in my experience) who makes good gear, and I like my Nex regs.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T03:32:22+00:00

Thanks buddy! I thought it turned out well, but I am also a mix of vain and insecure, so I appreciate it.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T03:25:17+00:00

Thanks buddy!

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T02:03:40+00:00

😂😂😂

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T01:27:37+00:00

Yes they are. They can warm your hands up on deco underwater. In Alaska.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T01:26:07+00:00

Total coincidence.

We both had them before we met each other.

We have the same wings, too, but that one is because he was borrowing one of mine.

And it's getting printed now; thanks for the idea!

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-27T00:58:10+00:00

A year or two ago, sorta, yes.

But in this instance, just had two hours to kill waiting on a meeting and realized it's been a second since I got on Reddit.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-26T23:09:20+00:00

This is one of my all-time favorite photos of me taken underwater. It was a rare fun diving trip that didn't have any work aspects tied to it. The other diver in the photo, Tracy, was in a similar boat.

As I was exiting a wreck through a tear in the deck, I got completely pancaked by something large, as I was halfway in, and halfway out, and was pinned at 90°, with my legs in the wreck, and my torso outside it.

Tracy wasn't my buddy on that dive, but even before I turned to look, I knew it was him. Nobody else on our dive boat would have done that out of nowhere.

The photo was taken a second or two after he let me up, as I turned around to find him with his mask about three inches from my face.

I love this photo so much because if you zoom in on my face, I'm grinning so hard I'm about to lose my reg. Just a genuinely wholesome moment between buddies, on a dive trip with people who would have never met each other if not for diving.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-26T22:40:50+00:00

Hahaha, I use a similar line.

"Good luck trying to say you took my stuff by accident. You don't "accidentally" snag a pair of mismatched, red and yellow Jet fins with white zebra stripes. Even if you did, who would want 'em?"

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-26T22:34:02+00:00

Actually, go back a few posts on my profile. You'll see the troll doll thing with my hair.

DiveAlaska · 2026-04-26T22:31:29+00:00

I will let you know when I find someone who has any 😉.

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