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Basking Ridge Diver
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August 1st - Saturday Night 9:12pm High Tide - Maclearie Park - Night Dive
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wrybosome
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I hope you all have a great dive tomorrow night.
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shmeepsheep
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My friend and I are planning on coming tonight but neither of us have a dive flag. Would anyone be able to bring one that we could use?
Edit: space I was actually able to find a flag for us.
Edit: space I was actually able to find a flag for us.
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Turns out we had a group of 11 divers from all over. Several from Scubaboard and DiveBuddy came out for the meet and greet at Maclearie Park - some first timers to the back bay and several veterans. We split into pairs and had a solo diver - everyone got to see a few seahorses, eels, horseshoe crabs, rock crabs, fluke (summer flounder), cornet or trumpet fish (I always get the name wrong), and lots more - some to be identified later.
Seemed like everyone had an hour or longer on the dive - I had an average 6.7 feet with a 12 foot maximum, temperature was 65 degree minimum but generally warmer at 6 to 8 feet. No one got lost - a really easy dive to see some excellent critters and have a laugh or two. Everyone seemed to be willing to do this again - so we can rally again in the near future - tide permitting. I will try to post some video later if it comes out ok...
Good job to all that came out and if you are lurking and want an easy dive with seahorses - come on out...
Seemed like everyone had an hour or longer on the dive - I had an average 6.7 feet with a 12 foot maximum, temperature was 65 degree minimum but generally warmer at 6 to 8 feet. No one got lost - a really easy dive to see some excellent critters and have a laugh or two. Everyone seemed to be willing to do this again - so we can rally again in the near future - tide permitting. I will try to post some video later if it comes out ok...
Good job to all that came out and if you are lurking and want an easy dive with seahorses - come on out...
njdiver1
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Great meeting you all last evening. I will be looking into who to thank for the fantastic setup for divers Belmar has created. Hope everyone had a good dive and will come back again. This is the kind of site we need more of in NJ.
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Basking Ridge Diver
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A quick and dirty GoPro Video - I had to mount the Gopro to my dive light (less to carry with the dive flag, light and helping a new diver navigating Maclearie Park for the first time) but in the end we all had fun...
https://youtu.be/JIDjOE7twOI
https://youtu.be/JIDjOE7twOI
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It really was a memorable meet-up and night dive!
Fun meeting all you diver guys and gal, we were all pleasantly surprised at the large turnout as many divers came with non-diving friends. We all had fun putting faces to our ScubaBoard names. Weather was perfect, got to gear up on two big picnic tables just in front of the diver access. Ive never seen that many people in Maclearie Park before, but then Im usually there around two AM.
Two of us had a really short first dive, couldnt descend. It seems that my Pinnacle dry suit is substantially more buoyant than my old DUI CN-se that I use for all of my weighting tests. Just goes to show that you have to check everything. Very glad I didnt find that out by jumping off of a boat, but that is what the basin is for.
And thanks to NJdiver1 for offering to go to my vehicle for more lead. You saved me quite a bit of effort, much appreciated!
Quite a range of sea life last night. I can add puffers and juvenile sea robins to BRDs list, we all saw them.
Fun meeting all you diver guys and gal, we were all pleasantly surprised at the large turnout as many divers came with non-diving friends. We all had fun putting faces to our ScubaBoard names. Weather was perfect, got to gear up on two big picnic tables just in front of the diver access. Ive never seen that many people in Maclearie Park before, but then Im usually there around two AM.
Two of us had a really short first dive, couldnt descend. It seems that my Pinnacle dry suit is substantially more buoyant than my old DUI CN-se that I use for all of my weighting tests. Just goes to show that you have to check everything. Very glad I didnt find that out by jumping off of a boat, but that is what the basin is for.
And thanks to NJdiver1 for offering to go to my vehicle for more lead. You saved me quite a bit of effort, much appreciated!
Quite a range of sea life last night. I can add puffers and juvenile sea robins to BRDs list, we all saw them.
KDAD
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BRD thanks for the temperature report. I check my dive computer and it showed 64 deg. It didn't feel all that warm but I was expecting hotter as it was 70 two weeks ago.
Also, I found a weight pouch underwater if anyone lost one. I saw a blue claw crab up on its rear flippers scratching his back on it. Felt bad kicking him out; even worse with all the extra weight I had to carry.
PM me if you lost a pouch.
Also, I found a weight pouch underwater if anyone lost one. I saw a blue claw crab up on its rear flippers scratching his back on it. Felt bad kicking him out; even worse with all the extra weight I had to carry.
PM me if you lost a pouch.
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