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A titanium reg and a 100% O2 bottle will do nicely.
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A titanium reg and a 100% O2 bottle will do nicely.
MASS-Diver
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fishy ms fishy:
Last summer I found a large whale vertebrae in the Western Channel off Cohasset (not a nice place to dive). It caused a stir when I posted some pics (see Marine Mammal Act), but I was on the leve with the regs - so I stayed out of jail and was able to keep the bone.
LobstaMan
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John, why was the Western Channel a bad place to dive? Current, surge, viz? If you found one whale vertebrae there must be more nearby.
LobstaMan
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fishy ms fishy
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These are great, guys. Keep 'em up.
MASS-Diver
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LobstaMan:
I'm going to dig up the pics tommorow (if I can find them, they are on CD somewhere) because I think I deleted them in the orginal thread I posted her at the time. I'll post a few in this thread if possible.
But, yup the vis was a nightmare (2'-4'), the surge and current were unreal, there heavy boat traffic, and lots of lobster gear.
If anyone want to go look for more bones, be my guest - after consulting my log book we found it in about 50' of water in the EASTERN CHANNEL (not the western,) very near the Green Can ("1E"). The bottom was sand (belive it or not).
jchaplain
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I've only been diving a year now, but the most fun I've had has been diving in Monterey Bay, California. Playing with seals, octopus, swimming through the kelp beds, night diving there and seeing everything that comes out at night...following the pipeline by Cannery Row out to the Metridium fields...it was all very awesome. And I'm going back there in March!
Diving in New England is cool, but Monterey has so much more sea life to see in that sea you see.
John C.
Diving in New England is cool, but Monterey has so much more sea life to see in that sea you see.
John C.
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Can this count? It's not diving., but this summer we brought our boat up to Stillwagons Bank in Glochester, and a finback whale came up almost next to us. It was so awsome.
MASS-Diver
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[The legal ramifications of recoverying Marine Mammal Body Parts were covered in the orignal thread here in the NELD forum on SB, started by me when my buddy and I found this bone. If anyone wants to flame me or bring up those issues again, please PM me and we'll do it face-to-face sometime]
I'm posting this pic as a result of several PMs. This bony was recovered in a nasty chunk of the ocean and it took us close to 45mins to check back to shore (we had kicked way out after receiving permission to dive off private property located on Strawberry Point at the very end of the Glades in Cohasset). The bony is rather heavy and we would not have been to recover it without a lift bag.
Please note:
It's illegal to possess mamamal bones in many cases.
It's illegal to dive off the shore in this area (it's all private property).
It's dangerous to dive in this area for many reasons.
That said: check out this big bone!
I'm posting this pic as a result of several PMs. This bony was recovered in a nasty chunk of the ocean and it took us close to 45mins to check back to shore (we had kicked way out after receiving permission to dive off private property located on Strawberry Point at the very end of the Glades in Cohasset). The bony is rather heavy and we would not have been to recover it without a lift bag.
Please note:
It's illegal to possess mamamal bones in many cases.
It's illegal to dive off the shore in this area (it's all private property).
It's dangerous to dive in this area for many reasons.
That said: check out this big bone!
Ok, how about this.
I was a newly minted diver, still had sales tags on my booties, when this happened many years ago.
I was due to do my first deep dive this weekend. My instructor, lets call him Mary, had briefed me on the dive the night before and we were all set. We were in the pub and Mary was having a great time and a really good feed of Guinness (translation, Mary was smashed out of his head).
The next morning Mary was looking the worst for wear but insisted we were OK to dive. He being an instructor of the old school, and me being a fresh young recruit, I said YES SIR and geared up.
We boarded the small inflatable dive boat and then we were off to the chosen dive site which was a 20 minute fast boat trip away.
Mary was not looking too good during the trip but insisted all was OK. So we arrived at the dive site and prepared to roll into the water for the start of the dive. We entered, signaled OK to the boat and proceeded with our dive as the rest of the buddy pairs rolled in after us.
Mary was not moving very well to start with, but as the dive progressed he moved slower and slower, until eventually he stopped and gave me a halt signal. As an eager new diver I crowded forward to see what piece of wisdom my estemed instructor would impart to me.
At this point Mary removed his regulator, looked me square in the eye, and reproduced the previous nights main attraction. In full!
The result was a 2 to 3 foot long 8 inch wide cocoon that undulated in the water between us.
At this point Mary put his reg back in his mouth and signed that we should continue our dive. Mary was now in fine form and pointed out many sites to me that I would have missed.
The rest of the dive is a blurr to be honest. But one item stands out. At the end of the dive when everyone was back in the boat and were trading stories of what was seen, one buddy pair declared they must have seen a rare sea cuecumber or perhaps some whale eggs. The object was a mottled black/green/gray about 2 feet long and was spotted moving snake like accross the seabed at about 100 feet.
It was at this point I looked at Mary, and Mary looked at me, and we kept our mouths firmly shut.
This is still one of my best stories. I hope you like it too.
Regards,
Paul.
I was a newly minted diver, still had sales tags on my booties, when this happened many years ago.
I was due to do my first deep dive this weekend. My instructor, lets call him Mary, had briefed me on the dive the night before and we were all set. We were in the pub and Mary was having a great time and a really good feed of Guinness (translation, Mary was smashed out of his head).
The next morning Mary was looking the worst for wear but insisted we were OK to dive. He being an instructor of the old school, and me being a fresh young recruit, I said YES SIR and geared up.
We boarded the small inflatable dive boat and then we were off to the chosen dive site which was a 20 minute fast boat trip away.
Mary was not looking too good during the trip but insisted all was OK. So we arrived at the dive site and prepared to roll into the water for the start of the dive. We entered, signaled OK to the boat and proceeded with our dive as the rest of the buddy pairs rolled in after us.
Mary was not moving very well to start with, but as the dive progressed he moved slower and slower, until eventually he stopped and gave me a halt signal. As an eager new diver I crowded forward to see what piece of wisdom my estemed instructor would impart to me.
At this point Mary removed his regulator, looked me square in the eye, and reproduced the previous nights main attraction. In full!
The result was a 2 to 3 foot long 8 inch wide cocoon that undulated in the water between us.
At this point Mary put his reg back in his mouth and signed that we should continue our dive. Mary was now in fine form and pointed out many sites to me that I would have missed.
The rest of the dive is a blurr to be honest. But one item stands out. At the end of the dive when everyone was back in the boat and were trading stories of what was seen, one buddy pair declared they must have seen a rare sea cuecumber or perhaps some whale eggs. The object was a mottled black/green/gray about 2 feet long and was spotted moving snake like accross the seabed at about 100 feet.
It was at this point I looked at Mary, and Mary looked at me, and we kept our mouths firmly shut.
This is still one of my best stories. I hope you like it too.
Regards,
Paul.
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