Avonthediver
Contributor
Hi all I went to Beaver yesterday to fish and get in a dive.
My wife and I showed up at North DamSite Park around 12:30 or one and while getting our gear out and ready I noticed that Richard with Paradise Dive Adventure had a class in the water, and talking with another diver who was just out getting wet and enjoying the wonderful day. Had told me that the class had been in the water for about 40 min.
This was very interesting to see that new divers were in 45 degree water learning their skills while learning how to cope with chilly water!
My wife and I had a great chat with the older diver while getting our gear ready and he had told us that the visibility was just super! and that he had not seen viz like this in a long time.
Getting down to the water right now is a little bit of a trick due to the very low water level. but down I went meeting coming out was Richard helping one of his very cold students up and out to their truck. Two thumbs up and also told viz was super!
Set my yellow buoy and dive flag at 20 ft down turned to head down and WOW! Vis was an astonishing 40 to 50 ft!!! :dropmouth:
The first statue I found was the creepy ronald mcdonald boy with dog "see map"..Please dont make fun to bad..
I traveled on down to the line that leads to the sailboat and what I call the dead forrest. and right now is really the best time to hit this depth, most of the time you have very limited visibility and can get very DARK! and at normal pool 25 ft deeper than it is now.
Made my way around to the vollyball nets and nailed 110 ft with ease. Viz and ambient light still amazing!
turning and moving up to see more of the statue's and make my way up and out to finish my dive.
to finish water temp was 48 to 45 not to bad for this time of year. Viz 40-50 ft just amazing is all I can say, the best I have ever seen on Beaver!
Not alot of people or boat traffic. so this made for a GREAT DAY!!
:dance3:
I made one more late evening dive with much of the same Viz and even getting dark I never pulled out my light at 75 ft.
Once again I can not say how well this day was. So I hope to see other divers out their enjoying some of the best Spring diving to come along in a long time!
My wife and I showed up at North DamSite Park around 12:30 or one and while getting our gear out and ready I noticed that Richard with Paradise Dive Adventure had a class in the water, and talking with another diver who was just out getting wet and enjoying the wonderful day. Had told me that the class had been in the water for about 40 min.
This was very interesting to see that new divers were in 45 degree water learning their skills while learning how to cope with chilly water!
My wife and I had a great chat with the older diver while getting our gear ready and he had told us that the visibility was just super! and that he had not seen viz like this in a long time.
Getting down to the water right now is a little bit of a trick due to the very low water level. but down I went meeting coming out was Richard helping one of his very cold students up and out to their truck. Two thumbs up and also told viz was super!
Set my yellow buoy and dive flag at 20 ft down turned to head down and WOW! Vis was an astonishing 40 to 50 ft!!! :dropmouth:
The first statue I found was the creepy ronald mcdonald boy with dog "see map"..Please dont make fun to bad..
I traveled on down to the line that leads to the sailboat and what I call the dead forrest. and right now is really the best time to hit this depth, most of the time you have very limited visibility and can get very DARK! and at normal pool 25 ft deeper than it is now.
Made my way around to the vollyball nets and nailed 110 ft with ease. Viz and ambient light still amazing!
turning and moving up to see more of the statue's and make my way up and out to finish my dive.
to finish water temp was 48 to 45 not to bad for this time of year. Viz 40-50 ft just amazing is all I can say, the best I have ever seen on Beaver!
Not alot of people or boat traffic. so this made for a GREAT DAY!!
:dance3:I made one more late evening dive with much of the same Viz and even getting dark I never pulled out my light at 75 ft.
Once again I can not say how well this day was. So I hope to see other divers out their enjoying some of the best Spring diving to come along in a long time!
