BrewingDiver
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Great news indeed. Wife and I sure are missing it. Now to get tanks inspected
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Excellent picts as always!!.. I also drove over the top of the new poured concrete lanes today. After the ?apex top? there were two square separated holes they dug out to repair the lanes as you head on the downward slope of the bridge. But instead of being filled with concrete, they are filled with black asphalt. It's like they ran short of cement mix and just said 'ahh forget calling another small concrete truck load, we'll just tar it ". It's a failure point for sure......... They were starting to take the lane merge barriers down, and the barriers between the two southbound lanes.
In 10 feet of water, just outside the inlet, a few days ago, there was a thermocline in the last 2 feet. Cold water was pushing up from somewhere. The water above it was hot like bath water.Bridge dive this morning for 9:34 HT. I thought I was prepared for the lower water temp based on Monday's night dive. Uh. No. Freak. It was cold.. 78. Other divers had similar temps..
Good news is I found 3 nudis.. working on photos now.
... The bridge is one lane in each direction. The construction still confounds me. I was under the impression from documents that DOT put out that the whole length of the westbound lane to the north was supposed to be redone with cement. It started in April and they just finished recently. No way they can do the other half in two months given a supposed completion of October. There was not supposed to be any work done on the inside lanes, why are they blocked off? Why are they still fiddle F***** around under the bridge? ...
That's pretty much how I understand it also.I'm not going to name names, & this information may be outdated, as they may have uncovered unexpected things upon demolition, and that may have required changes to the original game plan. I was originally led to believe that the east side of the west bound lanes was believed to harbor the worst damage, due to salt water dumping out of the garboard holes in all the boats being pulled out at the ramps & then driven over the bridge. I believe that it was expected that the vast majority of the work would occur in the east half of the west bound lanes. After the boats go over the hump, they tend to stop dumping salt water from the bilge & therefore less damage was expected in that area.