AeroMike
Contributor
Well, I met up with Scubadaddee, aka Cpt Phill, his buddy Chuck, and my buddy Ken, oh and there was a surprise showing from Lee~!!!
Dive Scene- we met up at the Edisto river, the water was still up but had dropped at least two feet since my last visit about two weeks prior. A lot of sand has been moved around due to the heavy current. The water temperature was up from two weeks ago also from 56 degrees to 62 degrees. The weather was nice and sunny and 80 degrees. Dive depth was between 10-13 feet.
The Boat and its Captain- Cpt Phill reminds me a lot of my grandpa. Now Phill I am not saying you are old by no means all I am saying is you have that same spunk and laid back attitude that reminds me so much of my grandpa. I will say this about Cpt Phill, he was not shy to don his gear and jump into the liquid himself since Lee was along for the ride and taking tons of pictures.
The Gang- Here is Lee on the left, and Chuck on the right. The second pic shows Cpt Phill at the helm, Ken, and then there is me on the right.
We cruised along the river looking for potential dive spots. We would locate what we thought was a good spot and someone would don their gear and grab the hooka line and go down. The first spot was nothing but hard marl and the second spot proved to have a decent gravel bed that kept us all busy for a while. We decided to move up stream a little from this spot as the gravel bed was big with fist size gravel so we were excited.
This second spot was good to Cpt Phill, but the current in the end won out over all of us because we were fighting it the whole time. It was strong, even with spikes driven into the marl, you still had to kick your fins to stay were you were at and this drained you quick. A lot of downed trees that made this dangerous with the current. Chuck ended up getting his goody bag snagged by an under water branch that took it from him and it was gone with the current.
All in all, I had an awesome time and can not wait to do it again. I realize I need to continue to lose more weight. Oh, almost forgot, I had one incident when I first got into the water, you see, I have a severe allergy to yellow pine pollen (throat starts closing on me) and this time of year it is in full force. I could have taken medicine for it but I never take any meds or alcohol at all prior to a dive...period, and getting into the water and my throat closing made for a potentially bad situation. I aborted that attempt and did not know if my diving for the day was going to be done or not. Lucky for me my throat was opening back up and I was able to get in.
Special thanks to Lee and Cpt Phill for their advice about when you are feeling like you are fighting for some air, simply hit your purge button and give your self a blast or two. This works great to push a lot of air into your lungs. It is little things like that, that can be a life saver.
Also, I would like to say that my new dive lights work like a champ, I did not bring out the big 1200 lumen light as all I needed was my mini torch at 220 lumen. I also learned that I need a better spike for currents like this so I will hit up our machine shop to see if the guys can make me something.
I know I didn't put anything in the photo for size comparison but the shark vert is 2" across. The big petrified wood and the Indian pottery was given to me by Cpt Phill.
I look forward to going out on the 2nd of April into the big Cooper river~!!!!!
Okay, I found this little guy and I think it may be an Angustidens very back tooth. It has a thick small root, serrations and what looks like a tiny bump, cusp on one side but no cusp on the other side, just straight serrations. Any thoughts on this?
Dive Scene- we met up at the Edisto river, the water was still up but had dropped at least two feet since my last visit about two weeks prior. A lot of sand has been moved around due to the heavy current. The water temperature was up from two weeks ago also from 56 degrees to 62 degrees. The weather was nice and sunny and 80 degrees. Dive depth was between 10-13 feet.
The Boat and its Captain- Cpt Phill reminds me a lot of my grandpa. Now Phill I am not saying you are old by no means all I am saying is you have that same spunk and laid back attitude that reminds me so much of my grandpa. I will say this about Cpt Phill, he was not shy to don his gear and jump into the liquid himself since Lee was along for the ride and taking tons of pictures.
The Gang- Here is Lee on the left, and Chuck on the right. The second pic shows Cpt Phill at the helm, Ken, and then there is me on the right.
We cruised along the river looking for potential dive spots. We would locate what we thought was a good spot and someone would don their gear and grab the hooka line and go down. The first spot was nothing but hard marl and the second spot proved to have a decent gravel bed that kept us all busy for a while. We decided to move up stream a little from this spot as the gravel bed was big with fist size gravel so we were excited.
This second spot was good to Cpt Phill, but the current in the end won out over all of us because we were fighting it the whole time. It was strong, even with spikes driven into the marl, you still had to kick your fins to stay were you were at and this drained you quick. A lot of downed trees that made this dangerous with the current. Chuck ended up getting his goody bag snagged by an under water branch that took it from him and it was gone with the current.
All in all, I had an awesome time and can not wait to do it again. I realize I need to continue to lose more weight. Oh, almost forgot, I had one incident when I first got into the water, you see, I have a severe allergy to yellow pine pollen (throat starts closing on me) and this time of year it is in full force. I could have taken medicine for it but I never take any meds or alcohol at all prior to a dive...period, and getting into the water and my throat closing made for a potentially bad situation. I aborted that attempt and did not know if my diving for the day was going to be done or not. Lucky for me my throat was opening back up and I was able to get in.
Special thanks to Lee and Cpt Phill for their advice about when you are feeling like you are fighting for some air, simply hit your purge button and give your self a blast or two. This works great to push a lot of air into your lungs. It is little things like that, that can be a life saver.
Also, I would like to say that my new dive lights work like a champ, I did not bring out the big 1200 lumen light as all I needed was my mini torch at 220 lumen. I also learned that I need a better spike for currents like this so I will hit up our machine shop to see if the guys can make me something.
I know I didn't put anything in the photo for size comparison but the shark vert is 2" across. The big petrified wood and the Indian pottery was given to me by Cpt Phill.
I look forward to going out on the 2nd of April into the big Cooper river~!!!!!
Okay, I found this little guy and I think it may be an Angustidens very back tooth. It has a thick small root, serrations and what looks like a tiny bump, cusp on one side but no cusp on the other side, just straight serrations. Any thoughts on this?
