Muck diving?

[scubaaaronh]

guba summed it up pretty good. Basically when your mask hits the water you cant see past your mask. Everything is brown. There are times when your buddy is at an arms length away and all you see is a shadow. typically when you get through a good thermocline or two it clears up some. but not much.

 

[ScubaSteve]

Maybe some day, someone will explain to me how that could possibly be fun....

Where else could you see this guy?????

 

[In10se]

Muck diving ...

 

[NOVIZWHIZ]

I've been called a muck diver - but we do it to FIND things, artifacts, sharkteeth...basically grubbing in the mud. When the viz is so bad you can't see your gas guage, and you have to reach back and feel the stiffness in the high pressure line to your guage to determine how much air you have.....these picts are nice - but you'd never see those critters if your viz is zip.

 

[ruready7]

How's this for a positive.
Muck diving brings divers closer to one another.

Actually muck diving or limited visibility diving does help you to notice the little things that you tend to miss when you have sensory overload from unlimited visibility.

It definately brings the divers closer together...lol. Just so you dont lose each other. But hey like said before..makes the great viz dives all that more fun.

 

[ScubaSteve]

.....these picts are nice - but you'd never see those critters if your viz is zip.

You are absolutely correct. But I didn't figure anybody would enjoy seeing the picture of nothing more than heavy sediment/silt so I left them out. I more enjoy the zip viz diving (when it happens which is not all the time) because it really makes you work harder and focus more on everything. However it is my "not-so" humble opinion that a 100' viz dive is better than a 1'-3' viz dive.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Most of the muck diving I did in Indonesia was in 20-40 foot vis.

Most of the muck diving I do locally is in 10-20 foot vis. Sometimes it's better, sometimes worse. If I can see more than two or three feet, I can find critters to take pictures of. If I can't see that far, I'm probably not going to dive ... I live in a place where I can dive anytime, so it's no big whoop to say "not today".

It's nice to get off where vis is spectacular, and you can see colorful walls filled with corals and other cool stuff. But it's even better to have cool stuff to see just a couple miles from your own front door, even if you have to be careful not to stir up the muck while looking for it.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Guba]

EGAD, NW....If I have 20-40 foot vis, it's a STELLAR event in my neck o' the woods.
But then, that's why the other forum I frequent here on the boards is called "Texas Swamp Divers". Next month, some friends and I will be diving a cove in a local lake frequented by party boats. Some of those folks drop the dangest things (sunglasses, car keys, anchors, bikini tops...) and we "muck it out" scavenging what we find. The vis is usually about three feet, but it's another type of diving. Then we move to another part of the lake where vis is usually about 15-20 and we think we're in Cozumel.
All things are relative, eh?

 

[Veronica]

Cool Pictures,, who new! I've dove in salt, springs and dark lakes and have never seen those critters before...just a few gators ..I'll have to pay attention better.

 

[Teamcasa]

Muck diving. Diving anywhere in the vicinity of OW students.