Quarry Diving in Ohio at Gilboa

[MiloR]

Nothing too exciting but I think some people may not know what diving in a quarry looks like. This is just a link to a small grouping of really short videos I took over the weekend at Gilboa Quarry near Findlay Ohio.

Fwiw, the water temp at the "tubes" was 46*F at 65.5'.

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[dogbone]

pretty decent vis for it being a quarry...how deep were you?

 

[HKGuns]

pretty decent vis for it being a quarry...how deep were you?

Most of that stuff is around 40-ish feet for so.

 

[dogbone]

that's pretty good for that shallow...I feel like my local quary has like 5-10 ft vis most of the time

 

[Marie13]

I was out at Gilboa Friday. I’ve been there in the fall when we had 60-70ft viz.

 

[MiloR]

pretty decent vis for it being a quarry...how deep were you?

As was already mentioned, most was in the 30'- 40' range. The tunes are right about 65'. In that video you can just see the wall drop off that goes down to, I think, about 120'. The morning vis was way better than the afternoon but I will attribute that to 2 OW classes and 2 AOW classes rolling through.

 

[maj2]

I was out at Gilboa Friday. I’ve been there in the fall when we had 60-70ft viz.

We were ice diving there one winter. We cut the hole not far from the front of the airplane, and could see the walls on all sides of the quarry from the hole. It was unreal.

And then you get Sunday afternoons in the summer after a hundred OW students from almost every shop in the Midwest and Southwestern Ontario have stirred it all up.

 

[dogbone]

We were ice diving there one winter. We cut the hole not far from the front of the airplane, and could see the walls on all sides of the quarry from the hole. It was unreal.

And then you get Sunday afternoons in the summer after a hundred OW students from almost every shop in the Midwest and Southwestern Ontario have stirred it all up.

That sounds amazing... But then I have also never dove anything but quarry... So that kind of vis is just unreal to me lol...I really need to get somewhere warm

 

[Jim Lapenta]

I've had over 100 ft of vis on the deep side at 125 ft. When I did my tech instructor course there during the week we had 90 feet on the shallow side. I know that because the big platform is that long and you could see clearly from one end to the other. Vis is generally good on the deep side.

 

[Marie13]

that's pretty good for that shallow...I feel like my local quary has like 5-10 ft vis most of the time

France Park your local quarry?