{"id":104,"date":"2024-12-31T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/?p=104"},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T23:02:25","slug":"2024-the-diving-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/2024-the-diving-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 &#8212; The Diving Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2024 has been a great year diving for me despite not having the same number of dive days that I have in the past. I finished the year with 56 dives, 16 of which were our weekly GUE Seattle Wednesday Night Dive and 14 from Laurie&#8217;s and my trip to the Similan Islands in Thailand in February. I also had trips to Howe Sound (Vancouver, BC) and Hawaii (Big Island) to get in some diving outside of the Seattle area. I was also able to take the GUE DPV1 course in January to learn how to safely use an underwater scooter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GPTempDownload-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GPTempDownload-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GPTempDownload-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GPTempDownload-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GPTempDownload-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GPTempDownload-624x351.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GPTempDownload.jpeg 1627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The trip to Thailand was simply amazing. The water was warm enough to dive in just shorts and a rash guard (which we don&#8217;t even get in Hawaii) and the water was crystal clear in most sites. Of course, the highlight was seeing a whale shark up close and personal at Richelieu Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work travel and a trips to the east coast and Europe over the summer got in the way of more regular diving. I&#8217;m hoping in 2025 I can get back to some regular weekend diving well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 has been a great year diving for me despite not having the same number of dive days that I have in the past. I finished the year with 56 dives, 16 of which were our weekly GUE Seattle Wednesday Night Dive and 14 from Laurie&#8217;s and my trip to the Similan Islands in Thailand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divereports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}