Blue Hole Santa Rosa status ??

[reddiver970]

Does anyone know the current status on diving at the Blue Hole?

 

[CycleCat]

Dive shop in ABQ expects it to open after Oct. 1.

 

[boulderjohn]

I am currently scrambling like mad to prepare for a trip to dive Rock Lake this weekend. I have not gotten a return call from Stella, and I am told she has retired, so even if the Blue Hole opens, you might not have a source for gas.

My group is going to being a bunch of extra air tanks along with the helium and oxygen I am bringing, and we will use my booster to fill the tanks. When the air tanks are emptied, we will have to send someone to Albuquerque to get them filled again. It's going to be a mess. If I had a generator, I could do fills at the lake, but we will have to return to the motel for electricity.

 

[WarrenZ]

I am currently scrambling like mad to prepare for a trip to dive Rock Lake this weekend. I have not gotten a return call from Stella, and I am told she has retired, so even if the Blue Hole opens, you might not have a source for gas.

My group is going to being a bunch of extra air tanks along with the helium and oxygen I am bringing, and we will use my booster to fill the tanks. When the air tanks are emptied, we will have to send someone to Albuquerque to get them filled again. It's going to be a mess. If I had a generator, I could do fills at the lake, but we will have to return to the motel for electricity.

Diving in rock lake I thought that went away with the new owner is this a new policy or a trial run?

 

[reddiver970]

I am currently scrambling like mad to prepare for a trip to dive Rock Lake this weekend. I have not gotten a return call from Stella, and I am told she has retired, so even if the Blue Hole opens, you might not have a source for gas.

My group is going to being a bunch of extra air tanks along with the helium and oxygen I am bringing, and we will use my booster to fill the tanks. When the air tanks are emptied, we will have to send someone to Albuquerque to get them filled again. It's going to be a mess. If I had a generator, I could do fills at the lake, but we will have to return to the motel for electricity.

We are diving rebreathers, can usually make it through a weekend with what we bring with us but that is a bummer if Stella rides off into the sunset.

 

[boulderjohn]

After I posted, I talked to her at last. She is going to try to get us our fills this weekend.

 

[boulderjohn]

Diving in rock lake I thought that went away with the new owner is this a new policy or a trial run?

It almost went away with new owner.

 

[BackAfter30]

We went in late June with Stella supporting by appt. Open only to divers with instructors. Have things changed since then?

 

[boulderjohn]

We went in late June with Stella supporting by appt. Open only to divers with instructors. Have things changed since then?

In June the Blue Hole was open to dive organizations with a limited number of divers. My group was in Santa Rosa then, diving Rock Lake and using Stella for fills. At the end of the month, New Mexico closed up again, requiring quarantines for outsiders like me. The Blue Hole closed completely. The quarantine rule was lifted a couple weeks ago, but the Blue Hole is still closed.

 

[apenland01]

Colorado added to the quarantine list again, hope this doesn't impact you.

Colorado added back to NM travel quarantine order