Boston area dive scene?

[Jay Adams]

Used to drive by Dublin and wonder how it would be for diving. My have to hit it this summer.

I was certified there

 

[TuckerIdaho]

What?!?! The Newport buoy says 53.4!

That's surface

 

[RIHappyDiver]

That's surface

Yeah, I know. But a man can dream.

 

[AfterDark]

Gota start at the surface anyway!

 

[mmerriman]

That's surface

salem sound 5/15 - 45F at 60'

 

[AfterDark]

Yeah I'll be staying shallow at first.

Salem Sound won't be much warmer than that at 60fsw in August!

 

[Jay Adams]

CT river was 59 at the surface according to my fish finder yesterday

 

[OTF]

kiss the winter vis goodbye!

 

[Mr. Dooley]

We call 10ft VIS here good, often see less occasionally more.

@AfterDark

We call 10ft VIS here good...for which we pray but rarely see and seldom can predict. Welcome to New England! It can be great diving, like the jungle can be great hiking once you clear a path!
It has to be worked at.

@TuckerIdaho I like my local diving, but if I lived in Boston I’d be heading to the locations I mentioned, not FW. Although, if you get there early enough you can get an extra 1.5 to 2 ft vis before the masses stir it up .

10 ft is great vis here lol

Not going to lie, the idea of 10ft vis being good is sort of bummed me out. But then I thought wait a minute - the vis is never especially good at my favorite PNW dive sites. And THEN I thought, how do we even measure visibility, anyway? What the hell does 10 ft visibility even look like? Is it possible I've spent my entire diving experience in 10 foot visibility already, and am fretting needlessly?

If any of you folks have any pictures of your dives around the sites mentioned, I'd be curious to peruse your examples for a sense of what I've got in store.

 

[AfterDark]

Not going to lie, the idea of 10ft vis being good is sort of bummed me out. But then I thought wait a minute - the vis is never especially good at my favorite PNW dive sites. And THEN I thought, how do we even measure visibility, anyway? What the hell does 10 ft visibility even look like? Is it possible I've spent my entire diving experience in 10 foot visibility already, and am fretting needlessly?

If any of you folks have any pictures of your dives around the sites mentioned, I'd be curious to peruse your examples for a sense of what I've got in store.

The way I measure vis is how far away from the bottom I am when I can see it. Go to the bottom check depth, ascend until can't see bottom, check depth, subtract, difference from bottom depth = vis. Lateral vis may vary. Ha, but those rare 20' vis days will keep you coming back and hoping for more.