I did 4 more dives this weekend. Our local over priced dive shop (aren't they all?) had a big sale on Saturday, which prompted me to buy yet another gadget - a dry suit. I'm now the proud owner of the Andy DS1 dry suit. It's basically the bottom of the line of a (I think?) high end dry suit. The dry suit underwear had to be special ordered, but on Sunday I got to dive with the new suit - it's nice to be dry (unlike the rental dry suits).

Anyway... Saturday I did 2 dives at Alki's "Graduation" Beach. Basically nothing to see. The first dive the rental dry suit intake value was sticky causing me to loose bouyency, finally determine that I couldn't fill the suit with any air and had to leave the deflation valve open causing the suit to take on small, but consistent, amounts of water. Net result, the worst dive ever. The second dive was better after some field stripping of the sticky valve.

Today I did two boat dives with Bandito Charters... boat diving is 'da bomb! We hit Sunrise and Maury Island Barges. Both were great dive sites. I did Nitrox for the first time for these dives. I consumed an amazing amount of air and couldn't figure out the issue - until I finally noticed I was diving with steel 80s instead of 95s... all makes sense now. Got to see an octo grab onto my dive buddy. Very cool stuff.