Blackthorn Report

[rboozer]

The plan was to find the Blackthorn dive it, then off to the Sheridan. Close to my waypoint the depth finder showed some serious structure. We dropped the achor and off we went. Once at the wreck we could not help but notice this was the Sea Food Barge we dove a couple of weeks ago. We decided to enjoy the dive anyway. Viz was not as good as usual. Probably around 30'. Your expectations are a little more in 80' of water. The barge was a good dive even though it was not the Blackthorn we were looking for.

After doing some searching with GPS and fish finder we found another echo that had to be the Blackthorn. I went down to check it out. Sure enough we found it. I was suprised what a mangle mess it was. I noted 2 distinct sections. One was turtled, and the other had a 90 degree list. Still a very good dive.

I have read some people have dove the Sheridan, Blackthorn and Sea Food Barge on a single 1 tank dive. Has anyone here pulled this off? Looking at the map it looks do-able if you know your way around.

I will have a report, video and pics on my web site tonight. I will post the link when I am done.

All in all 2 great dives this weekend.

 

[rboozer]

I now have a link to the complete report with Photos and Video. This link is Untitled Page.

 

[Missdirected]

I'm clicking the links for the video but they are not working.

As for a tank for the three - you would have to be really good on air and well versed as to where each lies. Personally, I do not think that would be much fun. More of a mission dive, if you will.

I think the two best out there are the Shrimper and the Sheridan. Blackthorn, as you stated, is a decimated mess. Lots of tires and junk.

I've been thinking I'd like to get a group together to go and clean up the Sheridan. Last I was there it was looking atrocious. Lots and lots of line and weights hanging "in mid air" - very bad for the fish. I think someone has killed the resident goliath that has been there for ages. I didn't see him on my last two visits.

BTW, thanks for the report and pics

 

[rboozer]

Links appear to be good. I made them absolute instead of relative just in case. I have tried them from 3 different locations. It requires windows media player as they are in *.WMV format. Also they are relatively large, 1 is around 3MB the other 10MB. The may require some patience. Try right click and save to hard drive then play.

By the way there are probably not all that spectacular due the the reduced viz.

 

[deepstops]

Links appear to be good. I made them absolute instead of relative just in case. I have tried them from 3 different locations. It requires windows media player as they are in *.WMV format. Also they are relatively large, 1 is around 3MB the other 10MB. The may require some patience. Try right click and save to hard drive then play.

By the way there are probably not all that spectacular due the the reduced viz.

If I right click to "save as", it wants to save the html link, not the video itself.

I'm getting this when I click the video links:

Server Not Found
Firefox can't find the server at boozerhome.com\video\scuba\seafoodbarge\seafoodbarge.wmv.

* Check the address for typing errors such as
ww.example.com instead of
Example Web Page

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.