I just got back from there last weekend. Very nice coral and marine life, lots of turtles too. No sharks or pelagics other than a lone nurse shark. Bonus at the "Champagne Point" dive site with volcanic bubbles coming up at the reef. Looked like an underwater seltzer bottle.
While there is...
I don’t know when I’m going this year, but always looking for an extra diving pair for the trip.
The bigger problem this year is that it normally costs me about $1000 in gas to make this trip from my home port to Montauk to the wreck and back. This year — OUCH!
The wreck is deteriorating but still worth it. Sea Turtle runs a charter and I think Hamptons Dive Center also has trips there. I get there by my own boat from Montauk, it's about a 75 minute trip at speed to get there.
We last were there in the fall and it was a great time. Please give...
My system as an example, we do it all the time on my boat in near-zero viz on deep wrecks. Find the wreck on sonar, get a good bead on it with a few passes. Have a shot line* prepared and when passing over the wreck drop the shot on the wreck. As soon as the shot line hits bottom, one diver...
There is at least two torpedoes left in the U853 and I have no reason to believe they are not live.
But much more dangerous around that wreck are unexploded hedgehogs, which were used to sink the sub. They are smaller and harder to see than the big 500 pound ash cans. There are also hedgehogs...
Video at the link. This diver has either balls of steel or no common sense or maybe both.
https://nypost.com/video/diver-removes-fishing-hook-from-tiger-sharks-fin/
Had a long-planned dive to the U-853 for tomorrow (Sunday) now scrubbed on account of 4-5 foot waves anticipated. It was to be my boys first visit to the wreck, they are disappointed.
Soldier lost his life during diver training at Joe Swing Park Reservoir.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/fort-campbell-soldier-dies-in-training-exercise
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