I was just wondering how bad conditions need to be for a dive charter to normally call off a dive.
Reason being is that this past weekend had horrible weather conditions (my dive sunday got canceled due to them) so I called around searching for another place close by to do a wreck/reef. About an hour before the dive a storm seemed to be rolling in and by the time of the dive it was a complete downpour. They assured us conditions were fine out on the water but the storm didnt seem to be letting up. So we went out. Once on the ocean the waves were 4-5 ft and there would be gusts or rain downpour. We get to the first destination which was an 70-80ft wreck. After getting in the water and down to the wreck it was nice and I had a good dive. After the dive nearing the surface the current was extremely strong and upon surfacing conditions worsened by a lot (I could not see the shore at all as I could before).
So upon coming to stop 2 we were tied off to a buoy and attempted to dive a reef. lets just say this was no easy task. this reef was only about 20-30 ft and had an extremely strong current and maybe.... maybe 10ft vis. I could tell many of the divers were struggling with the conditions and once getting to the reef getting back to the boat was even more of a mission. I went thru so much air and could barely see anything just seemed like I had to fight the current the whole time.
Sorry for the wall of text.... Just wanted to explain the situation, but now i'm pretty new to diving this being my 9th dive out on a boat like this and I was just wondering if boats normally go out in conditions like this. If so I guess i'll have to pay very close attention to the weather when booking a trip.
Reason being is that this past weekend had horrible weather conditions (my dive sunday got canceled due to them) so I called around searching for another place close by to do a wreck/reef. About an hour before the dive a storm seemed to be rolling in and by the time of the dive it was a complete downpour. They assured us conditions were fine out on the water but the storm didnt seem to be letting up. So we went out. Once on the ocean the waves were 4-5 ft and there would be gusts or rain downpour. We get to the first destination which was an 70-80ft wreck. After getting in the water and down to the wreck it was nice and I had a good dive. After the dive nearing the surface the current was extremely strong and upon surfacing conditions worsened by a lot (I could not see the shore at all as I could before).
So upon coming to stop 2 we were tied off to a buoy and attempted to dive a reef. lets just say this was no easy task. this reef was only about 20-30 ft and had an extremely strong current and maybe.... maybe 10ft vis. I could tell many of the divers were struggling with the conditions and once getting to the reef getting back to the boat was even more of a mission. I went thru so much air and could barely see anything just seemed like I had to fight the current the whole time.
Sorry for the wall of text.... Just wanted to explain the situation, but now i'm pretty new to diving this being my 9th dive out on a boat like this and I was just wondering if boats normally go out in conditions like this. If so I guess i'll have to pay very close attention to the weather when booking a trip.