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200 Feet Deep Working Diving in Hood Canal –
Serious SCUBA Saves the Day!

200 Feet Deep Working Diving in Hood Canal – Serious SCUBA Saves the Day! Written by Tory van Dyke Ed Forsyth, the owner of COMMERCIAL DIVERS, INC, Portland, Oregon, successfully bid a diving contract for the U.S. Navy in 1978. The job was located just outside the U.S. Navy Submarine Base in Bangor, Washington, on the world-famous Hood Canal. The […]
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The Valiant Bud Valian Story – Mt. Hood’s Ski & SCUBA Diving Living Legend

Article 1243 The Valiant Bud Valian Story — Mt. Hood’s Ski & SCUBA Diving Living Legend Early SCUBA Diving recollections of diving in the Pacific Northwest, Mexico & Belize Written by Tory van Dyke exclusively for the NORTHWEST DIVING HISTORY ASSOCIATION 8-22-22 I have been thinking about interviewing living Ski Legend Bud Valian of Government Camp, Oregon, for many years, […]
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Deep, Dark, Dangerous Diving within a Magnificent Sub-aquatic Ice Water Mansion

I recently met my longtime friend again, the diving pioneer and living legend Spence Campbell, at Tom Hemphill’s NORTHWEST DIVING HISTORY ASSOCIATION meeting on April 12, 2022, at Tom’s well-furnished, neighborhood association Clubhouse. I hadn’t seen Spence for a few years and took the opportunity to sit down next to him at the meeting in order to acquire more knowledge, […]
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Three Days Underwater Working Inside 150-feet of 54-inch diameter Pipeline

Underwater pipeline work is both physically and psychologically challenging and demanding. The SCUBA-equipped working diver, free from the constraints of lifeline, communication and air-hose umbilical attachments associated with surface-supplied hard hat diving, has the ability to make deep penetrations into underwater pipeline systems. However, the SCUBA diver is 100% self-contained, as he carries with him on his back-pack, his limited-time-duration […]
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Now Available: History of Diving on the Oregon Coast

Arcadia Publishing has officially released the book “History of Diving on the Oregon Coast”, and it’s available now.
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Video: Scuba Diving the Oregon Coast, 1969

The Oregon coastline is beautiful, rugged, and unspoiled. Even today, a relatively small number of scuba divers explore the near offshore rocks, reefs, and wrecks, but those who do are treated to some amazing diving.
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An Interview with Dive Industry Veteran Sal Zammitti

The Northwest Diving History Association’s mission is to record and preserve the history of the people that contributed to the development of scuba diving. To help preserve this history,
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Shunned in His Lifetime, Diving Pioneer Gets Credit Due

While scuba diving is enjoyed worldwide today, few enthusiasts may be aware that the origins of their hobby can be traced to a pioneering Japanese immigrant in prewar Australia. Yasukichi Murakami (1880-1944) is credited
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The Grand Child Experience

It was on my second dive of the Sea Use III-A mission that I had a “grandchild experience! That is an experience you call tell your grandchildren one day when you really want to hold their attention. It was the first dive of the day. Kirby Johnson and I were the divers. The morning was beautiful with perfect calm conditions […]
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Diving Perspectives: An interview with Zale Parry

Zale Parry doesn’t celebrate her own birthday. She shares, “being ageless is wonderful.” What she does celebrate is diving! Zale is a Pisces; the constellation and astrological sign named the Latin plural for fish. As the Greek legend goes,
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