Rooster1
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I am ready to throw in the towel when it comes to diving this far west in Lake Erie, I think I am going to try east of the Pelee Passage. Today my dive buddy and I go to dive the Wilcox.
This wreck was found in the early 90's it sunk almost a 100 years ago, is split in half and everything is still there.
it is very shallow, so lots of down time; but after 3 attempts in a row in the last 2 years we still havent seen her. Visibility zero (nada). to boot I get really sick. I was starting to feel sick from my boat rocking so much as we were gearing up and I thought I would be ok as soon as I got in. 15 mins later abort the blind dive and surface. Now on surface I am rocking with the waves again and feeling sick and dizzy and nausiated. I begin dry heaving and ask my buddy for help cuz with the dizziness and the 100 percent humidiy and what feels like 100 degrees, I am having problems. he helps by getting my 20 pounds of lead off then the bc, I manage enough energy to get in the boat but am exhausted.
Icing on the cake some how on the dive I lose my snorkel... go figure.
Moral of the story I am litterally sick of diving in the muck!;-0
The only good point is the water temp was 70 degrees already
This wreck was found in the early 90's it sunk almost a 100 years ago, is split in half and everything is still there.
it is very shallow, so lots of down time; but after 3 attempts in a row in the last 2 years we still havent seen her. Visibility zero (nada). to boot I get really sick. I was starting to feel sick from my boat rocking so much as we were gearing up and I thought I would be ok as soon as I got in. 15 mins later abort the blind dive and surface. Now on surface I am rocking with the waves again and feeling sick and dizzy and nausiated. I begin dry heaving and ask my buddy for help cuz with the dizziness and the 100 percent humidiy and what feels like 100 degrees, I am having problems. he helps by getting my 20 pounds of lead off then the bc, I manage enough energy to get in the boat but am exhausted.
Icing on the cake some how on the dive I lose my snorkel... go figure.
Moral of the story I am litterally sick of diving in the muck!;-0
The only good point is the water temp was 70 degrees already