gunnelfish
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Has any one on this board every dove beavertail. Id like to dive this site. I drove threw the park last this weekend. It looks like it would be a great dive on a day with lite winds.
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gfisher4792
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I've never dove it, but it has a listing on the MIT Scuba Club website: http://www.mit.edu/activities/scuba-club/Beavertail_Light.html
busraider1
Guest
YEs. make sure it's at slack tide... and not near the lighthouse area. strong currents, and pounding surf. at the entrance to the park, the first set of parking lots on the right, there is a trail head that leads down to the water. Once again remember slack tide.
ScubaSarus
Guest
We have a Beavertail club that dives once a month for the whole year. We've had a good year and some very tough dives there.
All areas are exposed to surf and can be a nightmare to exit. One occasion we surface to see the sea swells all around us and we got washed in onto the rocks and another time we surfaced in the surf zone (my mistake) and we got tumbled into the rocks back to shore. Best to dive on calm day with winds and sea expecting to stay calm. Our dive club would like divers with advanced training and who have insurance also. One of our members is also pushing on waivers to be made. This is reasonable because of the conditions. Allthough we help each other, you should be completely self sufficient should the surf seperate you from your buddy (stuff happens) I've had to exit many times without my group it seems at the end of the dive, all divers choose the exit they believe is right for them.
First off, current is a consideration on the west side and the tip.
Heck its bordering the river of the West Passage.Best to dive those areas on an incoming tide or else you may be off to sea. The west side PL #2 used to be an easier entry and exit. Last years storm washed out the beach making it more a hill climb now and quite challenging. The tip is the easier entry and exit; and like posted below dive at slack low or incoming or and hour before slack high.
The east side PL's #3 and #4 are not as bad current wise since it goes into a cove. The climb down the cliff and rocks is tricky with every diver taking a spill or fall at some point. I've taken at least 4 one being really nasty. Its a tough climb and very strenuous with divers getting winded at times (its a tough anaerobic excercise and taxes the heart immensly).
Once in the water the dive is very rewardable with neat little canyons and all sorts of unique sandstone geological fomations.
Go on a nice day when the ocean is still. Take youre time. Plan it carefully. Note the tides and have someone on shore to assist. Walk down the rocks carefully. Carry the minimum amount of gear needed for safe diving. Everyone of our group has donated gear to the Beavertail god (fins, shears, weights, a computer etc.)
If you dive Beavertail and I belive experienced shore divers should at some point, please just take caution and have a safe enjoyable dive. After the dive you may say "hey that wasn't hard" and you keep on diving Beavertail until one day you do come across that dive in which you're happy to be on dry land.
Best of luck
Chris
All areas are exposed to surf and can be a nightmare to exit. One occasion we surface to see the sea swells all around us and we got washed in onto the rocks and another time we surfaced in the surf zone (my mistake) and we got tumbled into the rocks back to shore. Best to dive on calm day with winds and sea expecting to stay calm. Our dive club would like divers with advanced training and who have insurance also. One of our members is also pushing on waivers to be made. This is reasonable because of the conditions. Allthough we help each other, you should be completely self sufficient should the surf seperate you from your buddy (stuff happens) I've had to exit many times without my group it seems at the end of the dive, all divers choose the exit they believe is right for them.
First off, current is a consideration on the west side and the tip.
Heck its bordering the river of the West Passage.Best to dive those areas on an incoming tide or else you may be off to sea. The west side PL #2 used to be an easier entry and exit. Last years storm washed out the beach making it more a hill climb now and quite challenging. The tip is the easier entry and exit; and like posted below dive at slack low or incoming or and hour before slack high.
The east side PL's #3 and #4 are not as bad current wise since it goes into a cove. The climb down the cliff and rocks is tricky with every diver taking a spill or fall at some point. I've taken at least 4 one being really nasty. Its a tough climb and very strenuous with divers getting winded at times (its a tough anaerobic excercise and taxes the heart immensly).
Once in the water the dive is very rewardable with neat little canyons and all sorts of unique sandstone geological fomations.
Go on a nice day when the ocean is still. Take youre time. Plan it carefully. Note the tides and have someone on shore to assist. Walk down the rocks carefully. Carry the minimum amount of gear needed for safe diving. Everyone of our group has donated gear to the Beavertail god (fins, shears, weights, a computer etc.)
If you dive Beavertail and I belive experienced shore divers should at some point, please just take caution and have a safe enjoyable dive. After the dive you may say "hey that wasn't hard" and you keep on diving Beavertail until one day you do come across that dive in which you're happy to be on dry land.
Best of luck
Chris
rcohn
Guest
It's a great spot for freediving as is much of the Narragansett Bay. I've never taken tanks there.
Ralph
Ralph
The guidance I have heard on Beavertail is that is isn't for novice divers. I was there just looking over the channel there and it definitely looks tricky if the conditions aren't right and you can tell that from the shore.
Clutchcargo
Contributor
There's a tiny cove off parking lot two that offers protected entry and exit. It's one of the easiest entries I've seen (after lugging your equipment down the steep embankment). It can be a fun dive, but about 50% of the time that I make the trip to dive Beavertail, I end up at Ft Wetherhill.
ScubaSarus
Guest
Looks like the tiny cove at PL #2 was washed out by last years storm making a difficult entry and exit. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe we exited the wrong cove after we dove the tip but it looked like the PL #2 cove.
Clutchcargo
Contributor
I haven't been there since last year. That sux. That cove really made it easy. How does a cove wash out?
ScubaSarus
Guest
"How does a cove wash out" That's a great question. The heck if I know. Upon our exit at PL #2 I suggested we should have gone to the regular cove were it would be easier since we had a heck of a climb out. The response from the other divers was that "that was the regular cove and that last years storm swells washed out the bottom of the cove" Ii's hard to believe and wonder if anyone has input on this. I'll find out next weekend maybe when we do our monthly dive.
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