Clark Hill/Lake Thurmond, Augusta, GA

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diveprof

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Two nice dives today. Eight of us enjoyed the beautiful weather and conditions. Michael joined us from Dublin. Dive #1 was 82' for 61 min bottom time. We dove to the three big rocks (thanks to Mr. Rich for the newest addition - Senor Frog), then onward to the pool filters and then down to the 80'wall. We did most of the wall, then up to the 63' ledge and into the trench to the angel statue. Vis was great b/w 30-60' with 15'+. Nasty b/w 27-23' and then improves to 6-8 above. On the wall we had maybe 6' without lights and 4' with lights (think fog and lights), still it was nice. From the angel statue we hit the 35-40' ledge (cow skull and Budda) back to the pool filters and three big rocks to Capt. Bob and the plane (plane was not very clear). We dropped down to the barrel and stayed on the 40' ledge until the ski boat and then finished off the dive with a long safety stop amongst the bluegill and crappie on the rocks. Dive 2 was 71 min to 72'. We went back to the 3 big rocks, pool filters, 35-40' ledge, angel statue , trench, forest, 50' ledge, big stump and N. wall (very clear and nice here today). From there we angled up to the tree, pipe and back to the 35'-40' ledge, and three big rocks before finishing off on the Dam rocks. Nice long dives covering a lot of area. Next two days will be the river. 1p Sunday (big drift)and 9:30a Mon. (N.Augusta). The only labor I want to do this weekend is diving!
 
2:06 minute dive today, 8-10' vis. I missed a meal here somewhere, that ain't right! We did the big drift. Seven of us dove. This includes the shipwreck, Hamburg cotton docks, US 1 bridge supports, more Hamburg docks, the rocks on the GA side, remains of the Hamburg bridge, etc. Lots of fish, several nice huge bass, a 5' snake on the bottom (could'a done without that). We are doing the N. Augusta Boat Landing tomorrow@9:30a. This is in the fall line of the river. Totally different dive -rock and rock ledges. 100+ year old garbage dump got pushed into the river here.
 

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