Some friends and I took out the boat out to do some SCUBA diving this past weekend at the USS Blenny. The USS Blenny is a WW2 era submarine that was sunk 12 mile SE off the coast of Ocean City, MD in the Atlantic Ocean as part of Maryland artificial reef program. We set out of the OC Commercial docks around 7:00 AM on Saturday and it was about an hour ride to the GPS coordinates I had on record. After searching around for a blurp on the sonar we found what looked to be a possible wreck about 70 feet underwater so we dropped anchor and prepped up. The seas which were around 2-3 feet on the way out had flattened to what they call Lake Atlantic. Great conditions for being so far offshore.
The conditions underwater were pretty bad; above the thermocline was a hazy yellow brown with about two-three feet of visibility. Once pass the thermocline around 30 feet it was like the lights went out, pitch black with 18 inches of visibility (with a flash light). It was an eerie feeling sinking 70 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean not knowing what is around you in total darkness. The blenny had lots of growth and life around. Interesting wreck although we just explored a small portion of it on this voyage.
We each had two dives ranging from 20- 40 min, and then we headed in. We had an afternoon forecast of rain and possible thunderstorms so we wanted to get back before Lake Atlantic became Atlantic Chop. We returned to the docks around 1:00 pm, successful trip all around!
The conditions underwater were pretty bad; above the thermocline was a hazy yellow brown with about two-three feet of visibility. Once pass the thermocline around 30 feet it was like the lights went out, pitch black with 18 inches of visibility (with a flash light). It was an eerie feeling sinking 70 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean not knowing what is around you in total darkness. The blenny had lots of growth and life around. Interesting wreck although we just explored a small portion of it on this voyage.
We each had two dives ranging from 20- 40 min, and then we headed in. We had an afternoon forecast of rain and possible thunderstorms so we wanted to get back before Lake Atlantic became Atlantic Chop. We returned to the docks around 1:00 pm, successful trip all around!
