Dive Boat brought us to the wrong wreck.

[TSandM]

It's the idea that the wrecks are within reasonable depth and sunk in places where conditions are going to be good for people to dive them that makes them "tourist" dives.

Rjack is referring to the wreck diving he does, which is in the 200+ foot range, in viz that's considered reasonably good at 10 feet, in currents that can overpower a scooter. For those dives, finding the wreck at all is a success!

 

[Protist]

Ok. I can understand that...only to a point though.

 

[HowardE]

Rjack is referring to the wreck diving he does, which is in the 200+ foot range, in viz that's considered reasonably good at 10 feet, in currents that can overpower a scooter. For those dives, finding the wreck at all is a success!

Yeah. There's nothing like doing a dirt dive to 190 feet.

 

[Diver0001]

I know accidents happen.I firmly believe that. My dive boat captain stated we were going to the united caribbean today. Grant, i've never been diving at the UC, But I did tons of research on it before going.(History,videos, pictures, ect..) When I was down there, i realized that "this didn't seem right." Nothing looked like anything i researched.Upon ascending and getting back on the boat I asked the divemaster if we were really at the UC,and they swore up and down that it was. When I got home and did more research(primarily looking at videos), I found out that we really went to the Noula Exress. Has this happened to anyone else before?

Yes,

Not necessarily on a wreck but we dive on the North Sea occasionally on question marks (anomolies on the gps/sonar that have not yet been identified). Sometimes you dive on piles of sand with one or two beams sticking out of it and sometimes you go down and discover something uber-cool. Toss of the dice

Aside from wrecks, I like to go out with fishermen. They often know where snaggy shallow stuff is. I've been dropped in all kinds of weird places--some of which were very interesting and some of which were boring. One of the best dives I ever had was from a zodiac in Sechelt Inlet in BC. The guy driving the zodiac was clueless and just dropped us somewhere. It was proably a a site where no human being had ever been and the contours and marine life were SPEC-tacular.

In short. Mistakes get made but in my experience more often than not the experience is worth it.

R..

 

[Cave Diver]

Mistakes get made but in my experience more often than not the experience is worth it.

R..

It's a bad experience indeed from which nothing can be learned.