MRXRAY
Contributor
Day two of our dive weekend! Hetland and Jhayes7* had spend the night at my house and we all sat down to some Fresh Flounder compliments of the Spearfishing Master!
as well as some Turkey day left over sides. It made for a real nice video, and the fish was awesome, thanks to the master Chef (No not Jason or Alex)
So we all kind of rolled out of bed late morning to meet Recharge at his house around 8:30 for our next adventure. And with the weather man promising to keep a leash on the sun it was looking to be another cool ride back. So with layers of clothing we headed out towards the dutch banks (Soth West of P'Cola Pass) to some natural bottom.
Grouper321 was once again happy to watch bubbles as we rolled so Recharge, Jahyes, Hetland and myself all headed down the 76 feet to the bottom. We had dropped our life boat anchor right into what we're calling the lagoon for the third or fourth time in a row of visits which made the dive even that much more enjoyable as we found a very familiar dive location at our disposal. The viz was a bit better than what we've had in the past, probably near 30 feet which explains why we've never seen the large reef module and Chicken coup before in the area.. No fish but some nice structure.
I just took photos and pointed out a flounder to recharge that JHayes pointed out to me to so I'll take 33% credit for that kill. :mooner: Recharge ended up putting 3 nice flounder in the boat thanks to some help from Hetland as a spotter as well. All in all a real nice dive. I did find a very photogenic Octopus toward the end of the dive which made for a real nice set of photos as well. Here are a few photos and Video from the dive:

Dive was 76 feet for 52 minutes with a min temp of 60* but it was much warmer at depth. I think that the temp may have been a surface air temp not a water temp. and the viz was 30 feet.


So we all kind of rolled out of bed late morning to meet Recharge at his house around 8:30 for our next adventure. And with the weather man promising to keep a leash on the sun it was looking to be another cool ride back. So with layers of clothing we headed out towards the dutch banks (Soth West of P'Cola Pass) to some natural bottom.
Grouper321 was once again happy to watch bubbles as we rolled so Recharge, Jahyes, Hetland and myself all headed down the 76 feet to the bottom. We had dropped our life boat anchor right into what we're calling the lagoon for the third or fourth time in a row of visits which made the dive even that much more enjoyable as we found a very familiar dive location at our disposal. The viz was a bit better than what we've had in the past, probably near 30 feet which explains why we've never seen the large reef module and Chicken coup before in the area.. No fish but some nice structure.
I just took photos and pointed out a flounder to recharge that JHayes pointed out to me to so I'll take 33% credit for that kill. :mooner: Recharge ended up putting 3 nice flounder in the boat thanks to some help from Hetland as a spotter as well. All in all a real nice dive. I did find a very photogenic Octopus toward the end of the dive which made for a real nice set of photos as well. Here are a few photos and Video from the dive:








Dive was 76 feet for 52 minutes with a min temp of 60* but it was much warmer at depth. I think that the temp may have been a surface air temp not a water temp. and the viz was 30 feet.