deco_martini
Contributor
I just got back from diving the area over labor day weekend.
We flew in to Raleigh Friday night, drove to Morehead straight down 70, and stayed at the Holiday Inn Express. We dove with Discovery Diving on the Captain's Lady. Leroy Craytor was the nicest, hardest working, dive charter captains I've ever had.
We dove the Spar on Saturday, and the current was so strong that my dive buddy and I were flapping like flags on the anchor line. To date, that was my roughest dive ever. The second day, Leroy took us back to the Spar. The current was non-existent and the vis had gone up to 60 feet or more. We saw the resident Sand Tigers on the second day and had a fantastic dive.
For the second dive each day we hit the Indra. It had the friendly amberjacks, looming ginormous barracudas, and massive baitfish shoals the spar had. The first day we had less than 20 feet of vis on the Indra. The second day we had 60 or more.
Even on the first day when conditions were so bad underwater, the diving was still amazing to us since it was our first time diving off North Carolina and seeing the baitfish schools, amberjacks, big cudas, etc. The water was very, very, very calm topside each day and the ride to and from the marina was gentle.
We flew in to Raleigh Friday night, drove to Morehead straight down 70, and stayed at the Holiday Inn Express. We dove with Discovery Diving on the Captain's Lady. Leroy Craytor was the nicest, hardest working, dive charter captains I've ever had.
We dove the Spar on Saturday, and the current was so strong that my dive buddy and I were flapping like flags on the anchor line. To date, that was my roughest dive ever. The second day, Leroy took us back to the Spar. The current was non-existent and the vis had gone up to 60 feet or more. We saw the resident Sand Tigers on the second day and had a fantastic dive.
For the second dive each day we hit the Indra. It had the friendly amberjacks, looming ginormous barracudas, and massive baitfish shoals the spar had. The first day we had less than 20 feet of vis on the Indra. The second day we had 60 or more.
Even on the first day when conditions were so bad underwater, the diving was still amazing to us since it was our first time diving off North Carolina and seeing the baitfish schools, amberjacks, big cudas, etc. The water was very, very, very calm topside each day and the ride to and from the marina was gentle.
