SuPrBuGmAn
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I met up with Paulwall and Amadus98 this morning to dive the Whiskey Wreck in Gulf Shores. Air temps in the upper thirties and water temperatures were 54F according to Paul's computer. Beautiful day though, blue skies, clear/blue water, slick gulf, and a cold brisk North breeze - brrr!
We geared up and headed into the water, visibility was 5-10' and there as no surge nor currents. I found the wreck, didn't recognize the piece, looked elsewhere and lost it - LOL. Refound the same piece of wreckage, tied off, and met up with everyone else on the surface. While on top, we drifted on top the rest of the wreckage and we started our dive. Not a ton of free swimming life with such cold temps, but there were some blennies, pufferfish, sheephead, and even some pinfish. We swam around the outside south end of the wreck, then the inside and around the outside of the stern and around the outside of the starboard hull. We swam across the sand to the newly uncovered sections a bit west of the stern bulk of the wreck, then back to the inside section of the starboard side before Amadus98 got a bit cold and called the dive. Paulwall was already on the surface after having trouble staying down in his humongous bright blue michellin man wetsuit. I went back down to untie the flag and swam back to shore on the bottom accumulating a total of 38 minutes of bottom time for the dive hitting 17' as my max depth.
Grabbed some Subway and ate it at Gary's Gulf Diver where Paulwall, Amadus98, GulfDiver77 and some others were going to head out on a boat trip, I'm jealous :11doh: Bother them for reports, infact, spam the crap out of them.
We geared up and headed into the water, visibility was 5-10' and there as no surge nor currents. I found the wreck, didn't recognize the piece, looked elsewhere and lost it - LOL. Refound the same piece of wreckage, tied off, and met up with everyone else on the surface. While on top, we drifted on top the rest of the wreckage and we started our dive. Not a ton of free swimming life with such cold temps, but there were some blennies, pufferfish, sheephead, and even some pinfish. We swam around the outside south end of the wreck, then the inside and around the outside of the stern and around the outside of the starboard hull. We swam across the sand to the newly uncovered sections a bit west of the stern bulk of the wreck, then back to the inside section of the starboard side before Amadus98 got a bit cold and called the dive. Paulwall was already on the surface after having trouble staying down in his humongous bright blue michellin man wetsuit. I went back down to untie the flag and swam back to shore on the bottom accumulating a total of 38 minutes of bottom time for the dive hitting 17' as my max depth.
Grabbed some Subway and ate it at Gary's Gulf Diver where Paulwall, Amadus98, GulfDiver77 and some others were going to head out on a boat trip, I'm jealous :11doh: Bother them for reports, infact, spam the crap out of them.
