AfterDark
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Dive 2085 8-31-2019 Watch Hill Point Lighthouse Westerly, RI Phil
What a beautiful day for diving! Phil and I went for a snorkel/scuba dive. Sunny, cool, no wind, 1' swells. We almost aborted, the road to the lighthouse is a long walk and no cars are allowed.....except for those 65 and older, hey that's me!
After driving to the water and finding a nice parking spot; we picked the worse possible spot to enter the water. I had my camera and my foot fins neither one helpful on a rocky bottom with small, short interval swells moving you around. After 20 minutes of bobbing and gurgling I got my fins on and was ready to go, huffing like a locomotive. We snorkeled for the 1st part of the dive; Phil was looking to use his new gun. I was wearing a 72 w the dbl hose, Phil had a 40 on his back. I decided to look for a subject so I went to the scuba for the rest of the dive. We headed south along the point until we hit a group of anglers, we turned back there, as it was as close to the Race as I'd like to get at least in the water.
I didn't have a PDC or a depth gage, so I don't know what the temps were or how deep I went. My guess is 15FSW max and mid 60's bottom temp. Visibility was a good 10', 20' inside the breakwater.
Not a lot of fish outside the breakwater a few big togs at the point of the inner breakwwater, some blue crabs, scup, horseshoe crab and the ever-present cunners. Inside the breakwater were several small bait balls, big gardens of eel grass separated by large patches of sand. No seahorses. I exited inside the breakwater where there were no swells, only small rocks and sand, the over 65 exit. The total BT 50min total time in water 75 minutes No pictures. Well one picture of Watch Hill point. On the left side of the picture there is a small breakwater jutting out away from the point that is the breakwater mentioned in the report. We dove from the breakwater to about the lighthouse then back around the breakwater into the cove an the other side, exited out at the seawall.
What a beautiful day for diving! Phil and I went for a snorkel/scuba dive. Sunny, cool, no wind, 1' swells. We almost aborted, the road to the lighthouse is a long walk and no cars are allowed.....except for those 65 and older, hey that's me!
After driving to the water and finding a nice parking spot; we picked the worse possible spot to enter the water. I had my camera and my foot fins neither one helpful on a rocky bottom with small, short interval swells moving you around. After 20 minutes of bobbing and gurgling I got my fins on and was ready to go, huffing like a locomotive. We snorkeled for the 1st part of the dive; Phil was looking to use his new gun. I was wearing a 72 w the dbl hose, Phil had a 40 on his back. I decided to look for a subject so I went to the scuba for the rest of the dive. We headed south along the point until we hit a group of anglers, we turned back there, as it was as close to the Race as I'd like to get at least in the water.
I didn't have a PDC or a depth gage, so I don't know what the temps were or how deep I went. My guess is 15FSW max and mid 60's bottom temp. Visibility was a good 10', 20' inside the breakwater.
Not a lot of fish outside the breakwater a few big togs at the point of the inner breakwwater, some blue crabs, scup, horseshoe crab and the ever-present cunners. Inside the breakwater were several small bait balls, big gardens of eel grass separated by large patches of sand. No seahorses. I exited inside the breakwater where there were no swells, only small rocks and sand, the over 65 exit. The total BT 50min total time in water 75 minutes No pictures. Well one picture of Watch Hill point. On the left side of the picture there is a small breakwater jutting out away from the point that is the breakwater mentioned in the report. We dove from the breakwater to about the lighthouse then back around the breakwater into the cove an the other side, exited out at the seawall.
