Today I took the afternoon off from work with one of my coworkers to get a dive in at Wetherill.
I had been down at the dock at DEM's Ft Wetherill Fisheries lab to install some gear on their research vessel. While I was there I was looking off the dock and could easily see the bottom 15 ft below. It doesn't get that good there very often so as soon as I saw it, I knew I had to get in the water!
I didn't have much to do at work this afternoon and had a bunch of personal leave to burn, so I talked one of my buddies at work into joining me, told my boss I was cutting out early and off we went!
The dive was fairly short, only about 30 minutes because we both had other things we still needed to do that day but it was worth it. We entered at the cobble beach over by DEM at the Bull Point parking lot. The water was a chilly 39 degrees, but the vis was easily 20ft! We followed the wall down to about 55 ft. The nudibranchs are out, we saw a few lobsters (nothing legal for those of you who are getting hungry), and some patches of anemones below 40 ft on the wall. Overall a nice relaxing alternative to spending the afternoon staring at data on my computer.
There is some great vis out there right now, go take advantage of it! I only wish some of my buddies had their boats out already because I can only imagine what some of the offshore sites might look like if it is that clear at the mouth of the Bay.
I had been down at the dock at DEM's Ft Wetherill Fisheries lab to install some gear on their research vessel. While I was there I was looking off the dock and could easily see the bottom 15 ft below. It doesn't get that good there very often so as soon as I saw it, I knew I had to get in the water!
I didn't have much to do at work this afternoon and had a bunch of personal leave to burn, so I talked one of my buddies at work into joining me, told my boss I was cutting out early and off we went!
The dive was fairly short, only about 30 minutes because we both had other things we still needed to do that day but it was worth it. We entered at the cobble beach over by DEM at the Bull Point parking lot. The water was a chilly 39 degrees, but the vis was easily 20ft! We followed the wall down to about 55 ft. The nudibranchs are out, we saw a few lobsters (nothing legal for those of you who are getting hungry), and some patches of anemones below 40 ft on the wall. Overall a nice relaxing alternative to spending the afternoon staring at data on my computer.
There is some great vis out there right now, go take advantage of it! I only wish some of my buddies had their boats out already because I can only imagine what some of the offshore sites might look like if it is that clear at the mouth of the Bay.
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