Cooper River Photos - Charleston SC

[Lee Taylor]

http://s135.photobucket.com/pbwidge.../q123/james_islander/black water/8d5bedf8.pbw

 

[rawls]

Brought back memories Lee. Thanks!!!

 

[ScubaJoy65]

Looks great on the surface and makes me want to go dive there. What's it like underneath? :blinking:

 

[Lee Taylor]

Looks great on the surface and makes me want to go dive there. What's it like underneath? :blinking:

Most of the diving is around 25-30 feet deep. Its creepy at first due to the decent through darkness. (take flashlights) The sand on the bottom is warm and friendly. Some areas are "hard pan" with fast moving water. (back away from this) Look for gravel beds. Search through the gravel for fossils and anything old and human related (such as arrowheads, spearpoints, bottles, wampum, coins, pottery). Ascent with extreme caution due to high speed boaters. Other cautions: entanglement, mud caves, occasional fast water.

 

[rawls]

(back away from this)

Not too hard to do either is it Lee

 

[ygthad]

Sounds like it would be a great dive, Thanks for the pictures

 

[NOVIZWHIZ]

MY HOUSE! I LOOO-OOVE blackwater diving - Cooper has got to be the most beautiful blackwater river I know of, I dive the Combahee and Ashepoo, little in the Edisto.........nothing beats diving outta a pontoon boat does it? The jon boat's a little tricky though. What about your finds? anything intact? PHOTOS MAN, PHOTOS...

 

[Lee Taylor]

MY HOUSE! I LOOO-OOVE blackwater diving - Cooper has got to be the most beautiful blackwater river I know of, I dive the Combahee and Ashepoo, little in the Edisto.........nothing beats diving outta a pontoon boat does it? The jon boat's a little tricky though. What about your finds? anything intact? PHOTOS MAN, PHOTOS...

For years I lounged around every weekend on the bottom (and top) of the Cooper River in Charleston SC. We (my grissley river rat pal Phil and myself) found all kinds of stuff. I dove out of a small Jon boat, a large Jon boat, a pontoon boat, and a deck boat. One Saturday afternoon I found myself laying in a bed of brackish-water eels (drawn to the light) and I said to myself, how many sharks teeth does one man need. Long story short I am now diving blue water again!

 

[Lee Taylor]

MY HOUSE! I LOOO-OOVE blackwater diving - Cooper has got to be the most beautiful blackwater river I know of, I dive the Combahee and Ashepoo, little in the Edisto.........nothing beats diving outta a pontoon boat does it? The jon boat's a little tricky though. What about your finds? anything intact? PHOTOS MAN, PHOTOS...

Follow this link to the fossils. Most are local finds. Some of the sharks teeth are mine.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/un...ossil-show-cypress-gardens-charleston-sc.html

 

[NOVIZWHIZ]

SWEEET! Nice finds!

I know what you mean about the eels.... they give me the creeps, too...