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alpenadiver

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This weekend we dove some of our deeper wrecks.

Saturday morning at 6:00 am we launched out of Rockport, and motored out to the New Orleans for a dive, once we set the anchor we got wet at 8:00. The vis was terrible even at 120' it was may be 10 feet max. We did a 15 minute dive swam from bow to stern will have to come back once the water settles down.

On Sunday five of us went out to the John J. Audubon, I had heard about her previously from people in the group, but never dove her, and being a little apprehensive especially with the visibility we had on the New Orleans the day before was it going to be worth all the preparation to get down to her. We set anchor at 7:20 A.M. the lake was as smooth as glass, we had freighters passing by all morning all dive days should be this nice. The first group went down, then Steve and myself suited up and went down, we passed the first group on their way up, the vis was terrible or at least until around 90 to 100 feet then it cleared, and there she was sitting upright on the bottom beautiful, strewn across the bottom there was railroad steel laying all over the bottom, We stayed on the the deck, to much to look at, but a penetration dive would be possible, If you chose to. We did a complete dive all the way around her, swam out over the stern and you can see the rudder, deadeyes still intact, mast laying over just awesome. Temp at the deck was a chilly 36°. The dive ended all to soon, it was time to return to the surface, so we made our way to the anchor line and started our ascent.

Mike
 
Thanks, I will keep those in mind. The Windiate and Pebawic are also on my list for this summer. We looked at the Audubon on Memorial Day Weekend, but there was no mooring.

Deep diving really is awful when the vis is stirred up, isn't it?
 
Some of these unbuoyed wrecks have a "Tide" jug tied to a mooring line, but people will cut the jug off.

The Defiance is supposed to be a nice dive also, it went down around 1840 - 1850 and is a two masted Brig, from what I have heard the two masts are still standing. The depth is about 185 - 190 to the bottom.
 

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