Questions about diving SE Alaska

lgcharlot@hotmail.com wrote:
> We are taking a 10 day Alaska cruise next month, and I am looking for
> info on dive shops and dive charters in Juneau or Ketchikan. Has
> Channel Dive Center in Juneau gone out of business? Their web site
> appears to be defunct. Any suggestions/recommendations on dive shops I
> should contact for more info? I have never been diving up there, and
> want to make sure it is even feasable to do scuba diving during an
> Alaska cruise before I lug 100+ pounds of dive gear, camera, housing,
> and batteries on this trip. Judging from the few dive shop listings on
> the internet, there is at least a small diving community up there, but
> whether they are set up to cater to cruise ship passengers or not is
> the $64,000 question. Most Alaska cruise ship passengers are old
> enough that they would consider a Mike Nelson style double-hose
> regulator to be "new-fangled" ;), so I don't imagine very many of my
> fellow passengers will be rushing off the ship, "C" card and gear bag
> in hand, to book a two-tank boat dive. Would my 6.5mil wetsuit be
> sufficient, or are we talking drysuit diving only in SE Alaska? I have
> a few dozen dives on the California coast, 49F~52F degrees being the
> coldest water I have been in (other than one or two dives in Lake Tahoe
> where it got down to about 42F at 90' - now that was COLD!!). I don't
> own a drysuit and don't want to invest that much money, since my most
> of my diving has been in Cozumel the last 10 years.
>
> Thanks!
>

Sue at Channel Dive passed away and John closed up the business last
January. However, there is another shop in town (I have never worked
with them) called The Scuba Tank and they advertise charters on their
website. http://www.thescubatank.com/

In Ketchikan, Wind & Water is probably your best bet. They advertise
tours as well as rentals on drysuits. http://www.wind-water.org/

Might be worth a couple of calls. I know from experience that they
aren't the fastest at replying to email.

Have fun and say howdy to that old curmudgeon Allen (W&W) from ol' fat Ray!

--

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http://www.ossystems.com
http://www.bobs-garage.com
http://www.clanwolverine.org
http://www.rayzplace.com

lgcharlot@hotmail.com wrote:
> We are taking a 10 day Alaska cruise next month, and I am looking for
> info on dive shops and dive charters in Juneau or Ketchikan. Has
> Channel Dive Center in Juneau gone out of business? Their web site
> appears to be defunct. Any suggestions/recommendations on dive shops I
> should contact for more info? I have never been diving up there, and
> want to make sure it is even feasable to do scuba diving during an
> Alaska cruise before I lug 100+ pounds of dive gear, camera, housing,
> and batteries on this trip. Judging from the few dive shop listings on
> the internet, there is at least a small diving community up there, but
> whether they are set up to cater to cruise ship passengers or not is
> the $64,000 question. Most Alaska cruise ship passengers are old
> enough that they would consider a Mike Nelson style double-hose
> regulator to be "new-fangled" ;), so I don't imagine very many of my
> fellow passengers will be rushing off the ship, "C" card and gear bag
> in hand, to book a two-tank boat dive. Would my 6.5mil wetsuit be
> sufficient, or are we talking drysuit diving only in SE Alaska? I have
> a few dozen dives on the California coast, 49F~52F degrees being the
> coldest water I have been in (other than one or two dives in Lake Tahoe
> where it got down to about 42F at 90' - now that was COLD!!). I don't
> own a drysuit and don't want to invest that much money, since my most
> of my diving has been in Cozumel the last 10 years.
>
> Thanks!
>

Sue at Channel Dive passed away and John closed up the business last
January. However, there is another shop in town (I have never worked
with them) called The Scuba Tank and they advertise charters on their
website. http://www.thescubatank.com/

In Ketchikan, Wind & Water is probably your best bet. They advertise
tours as well as rentals on drysuits. http://www.wind-water.org/

Might be worth a couple of calls. I know from experience that they
aren't the fastest at replying to email.

Have fun and say howdy to that old curmudgeon Allen (W&W) from ol' fat Ray!

--

Ray Contreras
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Webmonkey for:
http://www.ossystems.com
http://www.bobs-garage.com
http://www.clanwolverine.org
http://www.rayzplace.com

lgcharlot@hotmail.com wrote:
> We are taking a 10 day Alaska cruise next month, and I am looking for
> info on dive shops and dive charters in Juneau or Ketchikan. Has
> Channel Dive Center in Juneau gone out of business? Their web site
> appears to be defunct. Any suggestions/recommendations on dive shops I
> should contact for more info? I have never been diving up there, and
> want to make sure it is even feasable to do scuba diving during an
> Alaska cruise before I lug 100+ pounds of dive gear, camera, housing,
> and batteries on this trip. Judging from the few dive shop listings on
> the internet, there is at least a small diving community up there, but
> whether they are set up to cater to cruise ship passengers or not is
> the $64,000 question. Most Alaska cruise ship passengers are old
> enough that they would consider a Mike Nelson style double-hose
> regulator to be "new-fangled" ;), so I don't imagine very many of my
> fellow passengers will be rushing off the ship, "C" card and gear bag
> in hand, to book a two-tank boat dive. Would my 6.5mil wetsuit be
> sufficient, or are we talking drysuit diving only in SE Alaska? I have
> a few dozen dives on the California coast, 49F~52F degrees being the
> coldest water I have been in (other than one or two dives in Lake Tahoe
> where it got down to about 42F at 90' - now that was COLD!!). I don't
> own a drysuit and don't want to invest that much money, since my most
> of my diving has been in Cozumel the last 10 years.
>
> Thanks!
>

Sue at Channel Dive passed away and John closed up the business last
January. However, there is another shop in town (I have never worked
with them) called The Scuba Tank and they advertise charters on their
website. http://www.thescubatank.com/

In Ketchikan, Wind & Water is probably your best bet. They advertise
tours as well as rentals on drysuits. http://www.wind-water.org/

Might be worth a couple of calls. I know from experience that they
aren't the fastest at replying to email.

Have fun and say howdy to that old curmudgeon Allen (W&W) from ol' fat Ray!

--

Ray Contreras
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Webmonkey for:
http://www.ossystems.com
http://www.bobs-garage.com
http://www.clanwolverine.org
http://www.rayzplace.com

We are taking a 10 day Alaska cruise next month, and I am looking for
info on dive shops and dive charters in Juneau or Ketchikan. Has
Channel Dive Center in Juneau gone out of business? Their web site
appears to be defunct. Any suggestions/recommendations on dive shops I
should contact for more info? I have never been diving up there, and
want to make sure it is even feasable to do scuba diving during an
Alaska cruise before I lug 100+ pounds of dive gear, camera, housing,
and batteries on this trip. Judging from the few dive shop listings on
the internet, there is at least a small diving community up there, but
whether they are set up to cater to cruise ship passengers or not is
the $64,000 question. Most Alaska cruise ship passengers are old
enough that they would consider a Mike Nelson style double-hose
regulator to be "new-fangled" ;), so I don't imagine very many of my
fellow passengers will be rushing off the ship, "C" card and gear bag
in hand, to book a two-tank boat dive. Would my 6.5mil wetsuit be
sufficient, or are we talking drysuit diving only in SE Alaska? I have
a few dozen dives on the California coast, 49F~52F degrees being the
coldest water I have been in (other than one or two dives in Lake Tahoe
where it got down to about 42F at 90' - now that was COLD!!). I don't
own a drysuit and don't want to invest that much money, since my most
of my diving has been in Cozumel the last 10 years.

Thanks!

lgcharlot@hotmail.com wrote:
> We are taking a 10 day Alaska cruise next month, and I am looking for
> info on dive shops and dive charters in Juneau or Ketchikan. Has
> Channel Dive Center in Juneau gone out of business? Their web site
> appears to be defunct. Any suggestions/recommendations on dive shops I
> should contact for more info? I have never been diving up there, and
> want to make sure it is even feasable to do scuba diving during an
> Alaska cruise before I lug 100+ pounds of dive gear, camera, housing,
> and batteries on this trip. Judging from the few dive shop listings on
> the internet, there is at least a small diving community up there, but
> whether they are set up to cater to cruise ship passengers or not is
> the $64,000 question. Most Alaska cruise ship passengers are old
> enough that they would consider a Mike Nelson style double-hose
> regulator to be "new-fangled" ;), so I don't imagine very many of my
> fellow passengers will be rushing off the ship, "C" card and gear bag
> in hand, to book a two-tank boat dive. Would my 6.5mil wetsuit be
> sufficient, or are we talking drysuit diving only in SE Alaska? I have
> a few dozen dives on the California coast, 49F~52F degrees being the
> coldest water I have been in (other than one or two dives in Lake Tahoe
> where it got down to about 42F at 90' - now that was COLD!!). I don't
> own a drysuit and don't want to invest that much money, since my most
> of my diving has been in Cozumel the last 10 years.
>
> Thanks!
>

Sue at Channel Dive passed away and John closed up the business last
January. However, there is another shop in town (I have never worked
with them) called The Scuba Tank and they advertise charters on their
website. http://www.thescubatank.com/

In Ketchikan, Wind & Water is probably your best bet. They advertise
tours as well as rentals on drysuits. http://www.wind-water.org/

Might be worth a couple of calls. I know from experience that they
aren't the fastest at replying to email.

Have fun and say howdy to that old curmudgeon Allen (W&W) from ol' fat Ray!

--

Ray Contreras
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Webmonkey for:
http://www.ossystems.com
http://www.bobs-garage.com
http://www.clanwolverine.org
http://www.rayzplace.com