Any NC divers doing a night dive on May 30th 2014??

[GLOCKSCUBAG!RL]

Hi! My sister and I will be in NC May 30-June 1st. We are advanced divers and want to go on a night dive that Friday night and a day dive on Saturday the 31st. Anyone know of a good dive shop and dive site?


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[cocoajoe]

My expeience is dives there are a ways off the coast (no reefs) and 'blue water'. Might not be the best location for your experience level.

 

[GLOCKSCUBAG!RL]

We want a good place with reefs so we can hunt lionfish


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[Steve_C]

NC has some beautiful reefs. However, the nice reefs are offshore and are called ledges. The better ones like 23 mile, Sue, Stacey, etc are all around 100 ft deep.

Aquatic Safaris out of Wrightsville will run night dives. They also run a lot of trips to the ledges. They often go out to the Hyde, sometimes the Stone at night. You can just call them and they will set up the charter. If enough sign up for it then the trip will run weather permitting. They have nothing scheduled yet for the 30th and the smaller boat, the ASII, is available on the 31.

If your diving experience is all shallow reef then I would suggest you make it a couple days dives. The Hyde is 60 ft to the deck and 80 plus to the sand.

Lionfish I have seen have all been well offshore.

 

[Randy g]

Night diving in NC is not like a night dive elsewhere. Sandtigers are predominant and feed at night. Capt JT did a night dive a couple years ago and the sharks were ubber aggresive, so much so that they called the dive.

You can kill a boat load of lionfish during the day....fwiw

 

[100days-a-year]

The Mickey 50'ish and the Houston 100' wrecks fill the bill.They are by the Frying Pan tower and 50 vis is common.They have lions most of the time.Currents can be bad but the sandtigers are tiny.