Dive Condition Reports

[Aquatrax]

CSSP 5.30.2010

Temp: 96
Surface 82
1st thermo @ 15ft - Temp 72
2nd thermo @ 25ft - Temp 68

Didn't venture lower. Wasn't dressed for 68. Hard to dress for these conditions.
Vis was 6-10 mainly due to every diver ever born being in the water, better near the northwest area, almost 20ft vis there.

 

[psiborg1812]

Just to add on to what Aquatrax wrote

Below 30 feet, thermocline dropped the temp to about 65. got dark and cold FAST. Only cool thing about that was that you could see the warmer water shimmering like a mirage above you. WAY cool. Although with the temperature, we'd flood our suits at 10 feet with warm water then venture down to depth!

 

[paulw]

Wednesday 6-2-10 6:00PM
Windy Point Private
Divers - carrielsal - paulw
Air Temp 84
Water Temp @ Surface - 83
Water Temp @ 65' - 65
Water Temp @ 80' - 60
Max Depth - 80'
Vis to 25' - 3 to 5'
Vis 25' to 60' - 6 to 10'
Dive Time - 65 min

Nice dive vis was in and out (that should have tipped me) but most of the time ok, it looked like my light was flickering when we returned to about 30' but my light was ok on my glove oh well, went up to our safety and it felt like heavy surge in the ocean humm.. we surfaced to a storm, strong wind, heavy waves, rain, LOTS of lightning and Richard on the shore looking for us. Carrie was in her sidemount with hp steel tanks climbing up the ladder in the waves, what a sight... Fun Dive

 

[James R]

6/4 Hippie Hollow Lake Travis

Yes, you read that right :mooner:

We went searching for a missing anchor and 300' chain this afternoon. No luck there, but we did find some interesting things, and saw some things on the surface that we wish had been kept covered!

The area from 130' up to 70' was really nice, 12-15 or more probably. I could see silt lower which was confirmed. There are a lot of really neat rock formations and small cave-like holes to check out, which I enjoyed seeing. Sadly, there's tons of trash...if I had a dollar for every beer can, bottle, and cup....

54 degrees at 129', really nice viz 12-15+

 

[texdiveguy]

Everyone in my house was at work, so about 5:15pm I decide to gather the gear and head East to the pond.

Arrived at about 7:15pmish and chatted around a bit with the VERY few folks out there. I know of 3 pre-class groups setting up for weekend classes and no other divers........28 acres to myself!

Geared up , and wanted to put my new Dive Rite canister light though it's paces. Got in the water around 8:30pmish and headed out.

Full 5 mil suit and hood, mask, then beanie on top of that to help from losing the mask if the strap breaks or another diver fins you. Plus in the cold diving season helps a little on the thermal side. 5mil gloves and booties and 6mil full boots.

I do a fair amount of dark diving as a result of depth or such. But rarely do just night diving for the fun of it, now I remember why----BUGS/MOSQUITOES at the end while cleaning up your gear for the trip home!

Dive: weather was warm (90's), humid and no breeze.
water had several thermoclines, and those cloudy area's.
ton's of fish, of every source the pond has to offer.
depth was only 31ffw to 19ffw--varied.
lowest temp. at depth was 64f.
BT was 90 minutes.

PS-- new Dive Rite canister light worked great!

 

[FIXXERVI6]

84 degrees 15+ feet of visibility, not a lot of people which is probably why the vis was good.

 

[tripntx]

Last weekend was 6' to 8', wow what difference, 50% improvement from last weekend to this one.

Today visibility was between 12' to 14'.
Temp 80 F at 20'.
Temp 76 F at 36'.

Dove on the west end by the shop assisting with a class. Everywhere we went from Yellow Submarine to C-130 to F-5 had great visibility.

Took a lot of pics after helping with classes and uploaded some of them onto Mammoth Lake Scuba Park facebook page.

A whole lot of baby fish are in the water right now. Hope next weekend will be as good because I'm planning to dive as much as possible in the hopes vis will still be this good.

 

[TwoBitTxn]

CSSP 6/6/10

NTSRA Divers day out. I'm reporting what my computer told me.

Surface temp to about 19feet, upper 70's to low 80's.

Thermal at 19feet into the upper 60's. 59 degrees at 30 feet.

Vis 10-15.

 

[James R]

Lake Travis, 6/6/2010

1) Oasis Wall
The VIZ here is still holding really well at 15' or so once you get down to the cooler water. Had a really good dive, the temp at 100' is still a bit cold for most, at 59' but I guess that's the price of "clear" water. Even around 60' it's still pretty freakin' nice!

2) Starnes Island
OK, I heard the reports from the 5th of "20-25+ viz" here and kinda laughed it off as a bit of a stretch, so when we dropped down to around 50' I absolutely couldn't believe how far I could see, even without lights. From around 45-60' it was like I wasn't in the same lake. Unbelieveable! I was bummed I had stuff to do in the afternoon and couldn't do both charters! I really do believe the viz was 20-25 or so, crazy huh?
Temp 63 at 67'

I'd get on Robert's boat and enjoy it while you can. Now is the time to dive in the Lake...unfortunately I'll be missing out for a couple weeks, but 100+ viz and 85 degree water will probably tide me over

 

[rakpix]

June 12, 2010

Oasis Wall, Lake Travis, TX.
Thermocline at 52 FT. 61 F below.
Visibility 30 FT!
First EAN32 dive. Diving off the giant stride on a morning charter. Really spectacular visibility below 52 FT. Lime green chocolate milk down to 25 FT. Lots of grottos under 80 FT with lake level at 678 FT. Spotted a turtle at our safety stop ^_^

Starnes Island, Lake Travis, TX.
Thermocline at 50 FT. 61 F below.
Visibility 20 FT.
Diving off the giant stride on a morning charter. Found one huge grotto at 43 FT with lake level at 678 FT. No sunglasses. Found Underwater Kinetics Mini Q40!