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After 100 dives in my DUI TLS drysuit it's better than ever!

 

DUI DOG of the Week

I dive a lot. In one year I put over 100 dives on my DUI TLS drysuit. Everything from recreational see-the-pretty-fishes scuba dives to scooter diving to technical diving. The drysuit has held up beautifully. Honestly even better than I expected it to. I do a lot of diving from shore and out of my car and despite changing in a lot of parking lots, the drysuit is doing very well.

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Project dives.
Salmon hatcheries dot the Pacific Northwest landscape, and salmon fishing is a way of life for many tribes in the Seattle area. In order to maintain healthy fish populations, as well as to gain more scientific understanding of salmon habits, the Squaxin tribe has taken to tracking fish as they move through the Puget Sound. They tag fish in the hatcheries with electronic tags, and then they submerge electronic sensors in a "net pattern" into the Tacoma Narrows and other locations. When a tagged fish gets within 2000 feet of a sensor, the sensor knows exactly which fish just went by (type, age, direction its heading). Every six months, the sensors need to be recovered and then replaced with a new sensor.

Laurynn and Ray in their DUI drysuitsOn Feb 11, three teams of divers from SCRET, all of them wearing DUI drysuits, recovered and replaced the sensors for the tribe's ongoing ecological and marine biology studies. The narrows is famous for ripping current and it's not unusual for divers to drift up to 2 miles during decompression. In order to complete the work, scooters were used to help us hold position on our descent and while we completed the intricate work with the sensors. The tiny boat in the pictures was what we dove off of to do our portion of the project. Sara (in red) is a project biologist. In the blue DUI CF200 drysuit is Ray, my diving buddy for this project.

EgyptDUI's DOG of the Week
December 2006. Halfway down the 700 "Stairs of Penitence" after taking in a glorious sunrise at the top of Mt. Sinai (that is, after spending 2 hours climbing UP Mt. Sinai in the dark in snow and ice and 20F).

DUI Glacier jacket in front of the pyramid of Khefren in Giza, Egypt, where they were having the coldest winter in recorded history. It was 50F that morning.

Laurynn Evans
Seattle, WA

Laurynn in her DUI Glacie Jacket
Laurynn again in her DUI Glacie Jacket

 

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