A good weekend of diving. We dove the Savannah River Sat. 10-12' vis, 20' for 2:01 (yeah a long one), 69 degrees. Nice fish life and other stuff.
Today, we dove the Lake. Upper 70;s on top, upper 50's at 100'. Two dives today: 103' for 1:03 and 82' for :52. Vis was about 8- 10', had some wind today. A thermocline was forming at 23-28' so there was less vis in this range. Two groups of divers were also finishing OW checkouts. Quite a crowd for our lake - maybe 20 divers today.
We had a group from Orangeburg join us today (Scubanick and friends). Glad you could join our group!
1st dive was to the plane, then downward to the missle (airplane fuel tank) @ 80' today. Then down to 85' to the wall. We swam the 75-90' wall, dropped to the 100' wall and then upward through the forest to the 67' wall and then upward to the 60' wall. We journeyed onward to the big stump, then downard along the N. Wall and upward through the thermocline (3-4' vis for about a 8' level in the thermocline) to the big tree at 25'. We crossed the pipe and dropped down to the 35' ledge (vis was low due the formation of the thermocline) and back up to the 15' dropoff. Several large cats along the rocks of the dam to finish the dive. 103' for 1:03.
Dive two was from the 15' dropoff down to the 3 big rocks @51' (today, lake down 3') and then down to the missle at 80' and upward to the plane. After swimming in and about the plane, we dropped to the barrel and the 40' ledge and then swam upward west along the rocks of the dam. Big cat! Mouth was about 8-9" across. We turned and swam east along the rocks - several large cats and a couple large bass. All survived yet another attach of the "Killer Bream" (fed shellcrackers, bluegill, bream, etc. for the safety stop). Nice dive. Hey Scubanick, glad y'all could join us today.
. Seriously, several large cats in the 35-40 pound range and plenty of smaller stuff. Thermocline at 25' (78 to 69).
