Ft Lauderdale / Pompano Beach Dive Thread

[NothingClever]

@VsubT and I got to dive with Captain John and DM Josh from Hydrotherapy on Saturday.

There were a bunch of foreign students together on board and communicating in their own language so to keep it simple @VsubT recommended we team up with the only remaining folks on board (a couple) and he dragged the flag. The couple was from Tampa and the craziest thing - we live in contiguous neighborhoods in Tampa. Small world!

Anyways, we dived Qualmann’s Barge where we saw a GG, a friendly school of Atlantic Spadefish, a green Moray and a couple of lobster. @VsubT has a radar for lobster and I think he saw a few more than me.

Second drop was Pompano Reef and it was a pleasant stroll through the garden.

I think the deepest we got was about 15m so it was one of those dives where you just want to keep going and going.

1.5mm WS, viz was good but a tad snowy and the current was consistent to keep one moving but pleasantly mild.

Captain John and DM Josh did a great job.

@LandonL - thanks for starting Hydrotherapy!

 

[MrChen]

I dove with scuba Jenny at ybr today. We had warm water, small surf, and great vis. I'd say vis was easily 50+. Jenny found some macro critters, I'll post pics in a few days.

 

[NothingClever]

Deep wreck this coming Sunday with Hydrotherapy.

Hoping Captain John and dry DM Josh are crewing again.

Breakfast pastries at 07:00 for initial manifest check in. Crew eats first.

 

[MrChen]

We went out the Port Everglades Inlet for some lobstering and spearfishing on Sunday. There was a lot of boat traffic! We easily limited the boat. I also shot a mutton snapper and a small yellow jack. Additionally, pole speared a nice size lionfish.

 

[NothingClever]

Git them bugs, big dawg!

05:56 was awesome!

 

[Johnoly]

We went out the Port Everglades Inlet for some lobstering

Nice to see the bugs bunched up. Pinpoint head shot on the mutt and beautiful viz !!

 

[johndiver999]

I've shot bigger........



sponges.

 

[MrChen]

I've shot bigger........



sponges.

That was my biggest.... sponge.

 

[MrChen]

Dove out the Port Everglades Inlet on Saturday. We were expecting 2.7ft @ 6 to 7 seconds. The surface was choppy in the morning and developed into 3-4ft seas in the afternoon. Visibility was maybe 25ft. We were able to find lobsters at a certain depth and quickly limited. We didn't have a lot of luck spearfishing. We saw a few nice muttons, but they didn't want to be dinner. One person did land a nice 28" red grouper. We also speared a lot of lionfish.

 

[CosbySweater]

Whats the word on the visibility down around Pompano? I'm looking to freedive/spearfish around LBTS and curious if the viz will support it.