Any fossilers wanna show off some photos?

[TONY CHANEY]

As always, great pictures of even better teeth. Anyway, I am trying to put something together for 3 of us. I'll send a PM but as for right now I am slated to take the family to Fla, DW.
On a side note, I have dove the Cooper several times but it has been a while. What suits are most of you wearing? Dry, 3 mil, 5 mil etc.

 

[Lee Taylor]

I took my family to DW many years back. WONDERFUL memories.

Tony I am using my 5mm wet jump suit tomorrow. I am thinking we are going to see 70 degree water. In the sun it will not take long to start cooking inside the 5 mil rubber suit. The cold water will feel good initially. It may get a little chilly after a long bit on the bottom. I am cold natured compared to some. I also always get water logged at 50 minutes and feel the need to dry out. Hard to explain, I just start feeling too watery. The water temperature is rising fast this year. I am guessing it has risen 5 degrees this past week.

I will be using a thin hood and gloves. I have tried to force myself to always wear gloves over the years for the protection from cuts and stings.

I will be using a UK (4) c-cell Led flashlight and my old HID Dive Rite canister light.... still working after all these years.

I am using 80 cube aluminum rentals and 24-28 lbs of weight. May toss some off as time passes

I will take a claw tool and a sifter. Don't know if I will use them. They turn into a pain in the side, literally, sometimes.

I will probably fan and crab, and scurry about, in front of the boat to get an initial lay of the land. I will then return to the areas that I liked best. We will have a warm sand bed to the left, fossil bed in the center, and hard pan and faster water to the right. We will probably be in 6 to 15 feet of water. Maybe 20 but I doubt it. If the viz is 2-3 feet and the rain does not hammer us, we should have a wonderful day

 

[AeroMike]

I am bringing a 7mm one piece and a 5mm two piece. I'll have a neoprene beanie for my bald head, lol only because I cannot find my hood no where~! LOL it is ok, I wore the beanie with Phill on New Years Eve in 50 degree water, you get used to it after your ears go numb, lol. I am going to try out my new stainless steel straps on my fins. I have a dive helmet I made with two 220 lumen Dorcy lights and I can say I am officially down 80 lbs from last years dive weight and I will continue to lose weight. I still would like to lose another 25-30 lbs and then I'll be all set.

I am taking the family down to Orlando on April 6th for a week before I start my new job in Savannah.


Hey Phill, how is the Cooper river dive looking for the 31st?

 

[Lee Taylor]

canoe outpost / peace river posting

Debra Powell makes another land find / Venice Florida

 

[usanimalcontrol]

these megladon teeth were from the potomac in march 2012 easy finding meg teeth in 2-3 foot water by fanning silt away water temps in 60 degree water. i try to go weekly. next is calvert cliffs.

 

[TONY CHANEY]

Thanks everyone. I have dove it dry, 7/5 semi dry and a 2 piece 3 mil (after about 400 dives, it is more like a 1-2 mil).

 

[Lee Taylor]

AeroMike, Scubadaddee, and I fossiled the Edisto river here in the South Carolina back country, yesterday. i for one surely like that old back woods river. It is very isolated, serene, and beautiful. We had some disappointment with an couple of un-productive sites, some fast water, a hard to navigate underwater tree, and some late afternoon steady rain. We did not find a lot of fossils this trip but we had a good outing that i really enjoyed. We are zero-ing in on a couple of sites that will produce for us. We plan to return next weekend.

We did find a few small fossilized sharks teeth, some petrified wood, some pottery, fossilized bone. and a vertebra. The 2012 season is still very young.


Great photo of Mike. If this had been a high producing bed he would have filled that red bag.

The only little tooth I found.

Beautiful Edisto backwoods
[video=youtube;d182iN51D0c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d182iN51D0c[/video]

 

[pond skipper]

I'll be going on both the 31 and the 1st. Look forward to diving some smaller country rivers and meeting some fossil divers. I really had fun the last time I dove with Phil.

 

[AeroMike]

I'll be going on both the 31 and the 1st. Look forward to diving some smaller country rivers and meeting some fossil divers. I really had fun the last time I dove with Phil.

DAMN! I am going to Savannah this weekend to start taking some stuff down for the move. I would really like to join y'all Saturday......I will see if I can somehow swing it.

 

[pond skipper]

Mike, it would be great to meet you. I also know from personal experience that diving is much more fun than moving! Hope you can make it.