Anyone been to lake murray lately?

[FIXXERVI6]

Any idea on vis? is it a myth there or does any exist?

 

[psiborg1812]

Viz on the surface if not the best, around 3 feet or 4. Once you get below around 30 feet the vis opens up quite a bit to 8 or 9 feet. However, Murray gets dark quickly when the viz opens up, so bring a good light. Also, go slow n keep a lookout for things that can snare you. I've only dove the area near the spillway, so i don't know about Marietta's landing, but i would assume the same for viz. Murray often has lots of boat traffic, so bring a flag and listen for boats going overhead. The best way I've found of avoiding boats is just to surface as closely as possible to the shore, even crawling up onto shore if you are that concerned.

If you are going there in the next week let me know and i might be able to tag along!

 

[texdiveguy]

Viz on the surface if not the best, around 3 feet or 4. Once you get below around 30 feet the vis opens up quite a bit to 8 or 9 feet. However, Murray gets dark quickly when the viz opens up, so bring a good light. Also, go slow n keep a lookout for things that can snare you. I've only dove the area near the spillway, so i don't know about Marietta's landing, but i would assume the same for viz. Murray often has lots of boat traffic, so bring a flag and listen for boats going overhead. The best way I've found of avoiding boats is just to surface as closely as possible to the shore, even crawling up onto shore if you are that concerned.

If you are going there in the next week let me know and i might be able to tag along!

Good general advise about Lake Murray-spot on for the most part.......Marietta's Landing is much the same as is Tuckers Tower area.

One thing to always remember in scuba, is there is NO just 'tagging along'!

 

[richerso]

Not to hijack the thread -- but

psiborg,
what are the bottom conditions / depth profiles at the spillway. I have often looked at it as a possible dive site; but have never dived from the spillway. I have contemplated entering at the spillway and swimming due north to the 'island' but it looks to me like the bottom contour is a featureless mud flat.

 

[FIXXERVI6]

I'll post here if I head up that way, not sure if I"m going there or CSSP yet, CSSP has been bleeding me dry as much as I've been going lately

 

[texdiveguy]

I'll post here if I head up that way, not sure if I"m going there or CSSP yet, CSSP has been bleeding me dry as much as I've been going lately

Hope you make Murray.....understand about CSSP.....Robert should sell stock--lol. Be safe and have fun which ever you pick.

 

[Crazyduck]

Off the spillway you will find a car in shallow water; sitting on a pier.
(I know it's a bit out of place... underwater)
It's in about twenty feet give or take.
Off the front left tire there is a line that heads down into the lake.
We traced it down to about 60ft were it just dropped off.
And I mean just freaking... dropped off.
I had my hand on the line trying to fin or wave to find the line.
It was like a sheer drop off.
I would have tied off and dropped in but I could bearly see my HID light in the muddy vis. and I did not have proper gas supply.
So we called it quits.

If you want a fun dive there you go. Hope the water is still clear because below sixty it was like choclate milk when we were there. (ages ago)

Are you sidemount these days? Interesting image...

Alan probably has better details than me.
Page six of this .PDF has a map of the lake and depth.
Link- http://www.owrb.ok.gov/quality/monitoring/bump/pdf_bump/Current/Lakes/murray.pdf
Of note my and Frank hit 100ft in the area.

Happy hunting, Andrew

I'll post here if I head up that way, not sure if I"m going there or CSSP yet, CSSP has been bleeding me dry as much as I've been going lately

 

[FIXXERVI6]

Off the spillway you will find a car in shallow water; sitting on a pier.
(I know it's a bit out of place... underwater)
It's in about twenty feet give or take.
Off the front left tire there is a line that heads down into the lake.
We traced it down to about 60ft were it just dropped off.
And I mean just freaking... dropped off.
I had my hand on the line trying to fin or wave to find the line.
It was like a sheer drop off.
I would have tied off and dropped in but I could bearly see my HID light in the muddy vis. and I did not have proper gas supply.
So we called it quits.

If you want a fun dive there you go. Hope the water is still clear because below sixty it was like choclate milk when we were there. (ages ago)

Are you sidemount these days? Interesting image...

Alan probably has better details than me.
Page six of this .PDF has a map of the lake and depth.
Link- http://www.owrb.ok.gov/quality/monitoring/bump/pdf_bump/Current/Lakes/murray.pdf
Of note my and Frank hit 100ft in the area.

Happy hunting, Andrew

I'm sidemount only, back mount stuff is up for sale, I've cleared every small hole i can find in clear springs including the windows on the plane and boat. The image is of me swiming with one LP 108 out front - that was incredibly hard to do as they are HEAVY!

I can superman 98's pretty easy and alumimums are like diving naked

I have two sidemount rigs, everything else is going if not gone

I've heard there are some deep spots in murray but I mostly go to the cove to practice, when diving deep is good I'm usually at Travis.

Its just killing the wallet to go sat and take the wife, then go sun and take the kid 80 bucks + fuel for two days of running is killing me, so I like to go to murray when there is some vis, to save some green.

Until travis comes back up I'll be diving shallow!

 

[psiborg1812]

Not to hijack the thread -- but

psiborg,
what are the bottom conditions / depth profiles at the spillway. I have often looked at it as a possible dive site; but have never dived from the spillway. I have contemplated entering at the spillway and swimming due north to the 'island' but it looks to me like the bottom contour is a featureless mud flat.

Uh, understand that when I say "near the spillway" I mean that there's this wide spot in the road that you can pull over and park at, next to a large concrete structure, which has a metal structure sticking out of the water. I dunno what it's actually called, but that's what I mean. Conditions are about that you'd expect, with a silty bottom that is stirred up easily, a moderately steep slope, some boulders every once in a while. I've only been to 78 feet, so i don't know about anything below that. i would assume there is a drop off into a river channel at some point. There is a bunch of "junk" littering the bottom, i saw several old folding chairs,barrels, tubing, lots of logs and tree branches, many many old bottles, and a bed frame. There is a line from the metal structure down to a "crab trap" like the ones you see on Deadliest Catch, so that's pretty cool. Also, it get's dark fast after 30-40 feet. basically it's a night dive after that.

Off the spillway you will find a car in shallow water; sitting on a pier.
(I know it's a bit out of place... underwater)
It's in about twenty feet give or take.
Off the front left tire there is a line that heads down into the lake.
We traced it down to about 60ft were it just dropped off.
And I mean just freaking... dropped off.
I had my hand on the line trying to fin or wave to find the line.
It was like a sheer drop off.
I would have tied off and dropped in but I could bearly see my HID light in the muddy vis. and I did not have proper gas supply.
So we called it quits.

If you want a fun dive there you go. Hope the water is still clear because below sixty it was like choclate milk when we were there. (ages ago)

Are you sidemount these days? Interesting image...

Alan probably has better details than me.
Page six of this .PDF has a map of the lake and depth.
Link- http://www.owrb.ok.gov/quality/monitoring/bump/pdf_bump/Current/Lakes/murray.pdf
Of note my and Frank hit 100ft in the area.

Happy hunting, Andrew

Hmmm.....where do you put in to dive the spillway? I might have to check that out next time I go up there....

 

[FIXXERVI6]

I think I know that metal structure, does anyone know how deep you can go there?

Last time I was there (years ago) you had to mountain goat down to the water, and I wasn't interested in doing that in dbl 108's