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I haven't been on this forum since last winter. It's my busy season and we have had a good one, despite the unpredictable weather this year. Also, it seems like Facebook has cannibalized a lot of the diving and fishing forums. I generally use my Tortuga Charters Facebook page to announce special...

Tortuga will be in Wrightsville Beach for 3 weeks in October doing Megalodon shark tooth hunting. Originally we were going to do one week of open seating weekday trips. Due to demand, we have opened up Monday-Thursday the 12th-15th as well. $175 per seat per day. Call us at 252-646-8754 to make...

Everyone must be having a good season. No posts in this forum since late June. I have been busier than a one arm paper hanger. Not too many blowouts but a lot of ass whooping rough days.

Summer generally brings us a weather pattern the local Old Salts call a Sou'wester. A semi permanent high pressure area forms off the coast. It is known as the Bermuda high. The nearly continuous clockwise flow hits the Carolinas as a sustained SW wind at 15-20 knots. Since our coast runs west...

Tortuga still has 2 spots available for the holiday weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. $150 per day or $400 for all 3 days. Come and experience the improved Tortuga experience. She is faster, drier and much easier to get back in the boat with the new platform and ladder system. Call and make...

Tortuga has a Technical Dive trip this weekend: We have 2 seats available for extended range deeper sites. Available to seasoned decompression divers. We will visit the Naeco, and Tamapaulis (Far East Tanker) Saturday and Sunday. We will do our best to accommodate the diver's desires. Depth's...

Tortuga Charters is off to Wrightsville Beach soon for some Megalodon Shark tooth diving. We have open seating Monday-Thursday May 18-21st. $175 per diver. Several spots are still open each day. Call the Captain at 252-646-8754 if you are interested. We leave the marina at 8am each day.

Sea conditions were challenging. Saturday started out 10-15 knot SW wind but a squall in the early afternoon amped up the wind to 20-25. Seas built from 2--4 to a steep 3-5'. Sunday was the opposite, started out NE at 10 knots with a big SW swell. The wind picked up again to 20 knots NE and the...

Grouper season opens this Friday May 1st!! Tortuga still has a couple of spots for spearfishing Saturday and Sunday. Live bottom and ledges in the 110' range. The weather looks like it is going to shape up nicely. $155 per seat, and that includes fuel and plenty of ice for your fish. Call the...

I have been thinking about it for a long time and this offseason I finally took a leap of faith. Tortuga is a fairly wet boat, especially in a quartering head sea. What do you think? Will they work? I still have a lot more stuff to do, so I will be on the hard at least 10 more days. Here are a...

Just got the letter from NCDMF. It looks like we will be responsible for filing weekly logbooks starting some time in May. There will be online reporting, and also a smartphone app as well as paper. They will be due on Sunday, late by Tuesday. According to the letter, if you don't file or are...

Divers from Raleigh and Durham.....start your season off with a "Drive in Special" with Tortuga Charters on April 4th or 5th. The boat leaves the dock at 9am enabling you to "drive in" from the Triangle the morning of the dives. Two dives, the Aeolus Stern and the Spar. These sites are only 90...

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Captain Caleb Batson out of Carolina Beach lost his life to diving last week. He was commercial spearing at the time and the accident happened at the end of his 3rd deep dive. Caleb was 31, a well respected Captain and accomplished waterman. Details of the accident have been kept pretty quiet...

Not sure how I ended up as gatekeeper for this forum, they asked and I said yes. It is stated that to join you have to provide credential numbers, tonnage and renewal date. You wouldn't believe the number of membership requests that say stuff like this" "I am a Captain" "I drive boats and want...

Tortuga will be at the Wrightsville Beach Marina for the next few weeks. We have some spots available next Wednesday and Thursday October 8th and 9th. Call us at 252-646-8754 or email us a dive@tortugacharters.net to get your spot.

Tortuga will be in Wrightsville Beach next week and we have multiple spots on Wednesday and Thursday October 8th/9th. Call us at 252-646-8754 or email me at captainjames@tortugacharters.net to grab a spot.

Just got back from a weekend in New Orleans visiting my daughter and her husband. My wife booked both of our flights, only gave my full name and DOB. We noticed this morning that my boarding pass (and not hers) was marked TSA pre-screened which would have allowed me to go through a much shorter...

We have two spots on the boat this coming Sunday. Weather looks nice, maybe a shower but no wind and waves. Plan is for the Schurz and then Aeolus Stern. Boat leaves the dock at 7:30, so plan on being there 30 minutes ahead to get loaded up. Seats are $145 each. That includes ice, bottled water...

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