Diving Seneca lake?

[SlickNick]

Shipwrecks?
I cant seem to find any coordinates anywhere.
Viz?
Temp?

 

[flots am]

Shipwrecks?

Not likely although you'll probably find a bunch of small boats if you look carefully.

The locals sank a ship around 1900, but they did it using all the explosives they could find, so there wasn't much left. A guy found it after looking for decades, but it's apparently in 400' or so.

Viz?

Depends on the weather. i'd expect excellent viz now, although I haven't actually been there lately. Viz goes downhill after rain or in the summer when the water gets warm.

Temp?

Should be in the mid 40's.

It's a nice lake if you want to go for a dive and check out the geography and fish, but not much in the way of wrecks.

flots.

 

[SlickNick]

Not likely although you'll probably find a bunch of small boats if you look carefully.


flots.

What do you mean? like just cruising around and watching the depth finder?

 

[flots am]

What do you mean? like just cruising around and watching the depth finder?

No, just that small boats often sink and sometimes they're not recovered.

I was actually referring to "if you dive it enough you'll probably find something." I don't know of any specific "wrecks" but most of the finger-lakes contain a number of small boats that sank.

The more interesting stuff is usually the geography and the plant/animal life.

flots.

 

[Rich Keller]

You can check out this site for wrecks but it does not cover the lake you want. Pick the area you want to study, download the data and look for any listings that have a Cartocode of 100 or 102. There is another option on this site that is currently unavailable where you could either put in a chart number or geographic location that would cover the area you are interested in. When that part of the site is up and running again charts 14786 and 14791 will cover the lake.

Download AWOIS Data

PS: Here is a link to the chart for on line viewing.

http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/14791.shtml

 

[SlickNick]

You can check out this site for wrecks but it does not cover the lake you want. Pick the area you want to study, download the data and look for any listings that have a Cartocode of 100 or 102. There is another option on this site that is currently unavailable where you could either put in a chart number or geographic location that would cover the area you are interested in. When that part of the site is up and running again charts 14786 and 14791 will cover the lake.

Download AWOIS Data

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/hsd/docs/Region_5.pdf

PS: Here is a link to the chart for on line viewing.

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/hsd/docs/Region_5.pdf this isnt really much help:/ did i do something wrong?

 

[Rich Keller]

No you did not do anything wrong, this is just raw data from NOAA bottom surveys that unfortunately is not set up in a very useful format. The other option that is currently not available on the NOAA site is more useful as it covers smaller areas but unfortunately the format is the same, this is after all a government site. With this option you would need to know the approximate GPS numbers for the area you want to search then cross reference that with the code 100 or 102 listings you find. Best way to use the information once you find listings that you want is to enter the GPS numbers into Google Earth and it will take you right to that spot on their map. If you do not have Google Earth, get it, it is very useful when doing this kind of research and is a free download. The huge amount of information you need to look through seems like a lot of work but given the alternative it is much easier and far cheeper then doing it yourself. You would need to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a big enough & well equipped boat, side scan sonar and a good GPS unit then put in hundreds of hours searching just one area. NOAA has already purchased the best equipment and put in untold numbers of hours out on the water finding everything on the bottom in all these areas, much of it not listed on their charts. This would be a good winter time project to map out lots of sites if you have the time.

PS: The above comments were in reference to the first link I posted. The second link I posted was incorrect, use this link, then go to the Great Lakes region then to chart 14791. http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/NOAAChartViewer.html