Palm Beach Dive Thread

[Scuba_Jenny]

Way too close for me on the Green Moray,,,They are practically blind and don't back down easily.

I have a lot of respect for green morays.. One time...(story told best around a campfire with my dive buddy who was present while enjoying libations)...
and then the first time was when we thought it cute to wear Mardi-Gras beads diving. Did the Sea Emporor, this was years ago.. Apparently Green Morays like those beads too...

 

[Divin'Papaw]

I have a lot of respect for green morays.. One time...(story told best around a campfire with my dive buddy who was present while enjoying libations)...
and then the first time was when we thought it cute to wear Mardi-Gras beads diving. Did the Sea Emporor, this was years ago.. Apparently Green Morays like those beads too...

I was diving once with @MrChen when he silted out a site pretty badly, which is VERY unexpected given his precise buoyance and trim. Turns out he had the crap scared out of him by a green moray that came out of a hole right when he was looking in it. Chris left a good old cloud of sand and I don't blame him!

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

you sure it was sand??? LOL

 

[johndiver999]

Slight north current, choppy more than you would expect, slight northern ground swell, vis is 25 north of inlet 50 south in 100. Warm top to bottom, maybe 85-84

 

[MrChen]

I was diving once with @MrChen when he silted out a site pretty badly, which is VERY unexpected given his precise buoyance and trim. Turns out he had the crap scared out of him by a green moray that came out of a hole right when he was looking in it. Chris left a good old cloud of sand and I don't blame him!

I remember it like it was yesterday... We were both looking in the hole and you started swimming up over the reef. I look to my right and a moray eel is heading right at me and is only a few feet away. I had to wash my wetsuit twice to get the stain out.

 

[MrChen]

you sure it was sand??? LOL

I probably chummed the water. I literally planted my feet on the ocean floor and kicked up to get out of the way of the charging eel. It wanted to go in the hole and my head was in the way.

 

[MrChen]

I went diving with my buddy on his private boat Sunday. We went north of the inlet. The water was a horrible green. Group 1 dropped anyways. Within a minute, one of the divers surfaced and said there was no vis. The other 2 kept on diving and said at depth they had 5 to 10ft.

We ran south. We eventually hit the green/blue water line. Every dive charter boat was on Breakers. We ran south to Paul's, hunted the deeper patches. We didn't have much luck, so ran further south to Horseshoe. Hardly any lobsters to be found, but we did fairly well on spearfishing and lionfish. We had maybe 25ft vis.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Every dive charter boat was on Breakers.

They were! Even Pura Vida's deep boat went south to Breakers to do the backside on dive 2 because everything north of the inlet was green and no viz. Governors was manageable. 20-30'. But we did that 1st dive and Dean wanted to find a different site for dive 2. I'm glad he did because Lapatas (backside of Breakers) was awesome!

When I came up I could have probably swum to 4 different charter boars if I'd had to!

 

[MrChen]

They were! Even Pura Vida's deep boat went south to Breakers to do the backside on dive 2 because everything north of the inlet was green and no viz. Governors was manageable. 20-30'. But we did that 1st dive and Dean wanted to find a different site for dive 2. I'm glad he did because Lapatas (backside of Breakers) was awesome!

When I came up I could have probably swum to 4 different charter boars if I'd had to!

The radio chatter was insane. All the captains negotiating who was going where. I heard them trying to figure out from 3 or 4 boats all divers mixed in the same general area.