dem86
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Last dive trip - Wananavu Resort in Fiji
Last dive trip - Wananavu Resort in Fiji
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scuba_junkie
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Welcome to the scubaboard from a fellow cold water diver (Michigan)! 
ScottyK
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Welcome from Long Island. Let me know when you're ready to pack up the car and head east for some local fun!!!!
concollective
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And welcome to all from New York City! I got certified in the Maldives but am not so sure I'd love the cold water, whether in Long Island Sound or elsewhere (with all due regard to Michigan!). Thoughts about good dive spots in the Empire State?
ScottyK
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Spring and fall can get a bit chilly, but June-September the diving is great up here. If you wear a 7 mil, or one of the newer 5/4/3 titanium suits you'll be warm as toast.
Think about it, on a hot, muggy August day, what could be better than spending 45 mins underwater. It's so refreshing that we try to dive at least 4 or five times a week in summer.
If you decide to try it, I would recommend Greenport if you're new to diving. You can even make it a weekend and get a room at one of the motels on Sound Avenue. You'll be a five minute drive from three easy, safe shore dives in the Sound, and five minutes the other way is the village itself. There are some nice seafood restaurants and some night life there.
When you're ready, post or PM me and I'd be glad to help you with hotel names and/or site directions. There is a book with good directions on LI shore diving you can pick up at LP next time you're downtown.
Hope this helps you out some......Scott
Think about it, on a hot, muggy August day, what could be better than spending 45 mins underwater. It's so refreshing that we try to dive at least 4 or five times a week in summer.
If you decide to try it, I would recommend Greenport if you're new to diving. You can even make it a weekend and get a room at one of the motels on Sound Avenue. You'll be a five minute drive from three easy, safe shore dives in the Sound, and five minutes the other way is the village itself. There are some nice seafood restaurants and some night life there.
When you're ready, post or PM me and I'd be glad to help you with hotel names and/or site directions. There is a book with good directions on LI shore diving you can pick up at LP next time you're downtown.
Hope this helps you out some......Scott
crazed_dolphin
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Welcome to the board.
concollective
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Thanks for the info and the offer of help in finding sites in the future. I mean to plan a dive before the summer's over (as you know, we've had lousy weather here on the surface, anyway!) and will drop you a line to get some info when I do.
Let me ask: I can imagine that, as you say, it really is nice to spend 45 minutes underwater on a hot, muggy day, but other than temperature issues, how are the dive environments up here? Are they topographically interesting? Having learned to dive on some of the most interesting reefs in the world (or so I'm told, since I've only dived in the Maldives), I'm a little scared that up here in the Northeast I'd be confronting featureless, mud-bottom environments with low viz. An unfair assumption on my part?
ScottNY
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Hey ScottyK....
Follow up question. I'm a novice at this as well. But getting AOW done in a couple of weeks. I'd like to get in more local diving before it gets real cold.
You said...
> of the motels on Sound Avenue. You'll be a five minute drive from three easy, safe shore dives in the Sound,
Can you offer specifics on a cheap hotel or two and where a local dive shop is? Is there any group or shop that guides dives out there or where a novice could find folks to go with?
Thanks!
Scott
Follow up question. I'm a novice at this as well. But getting AOW done in a couple of weeks. I'd like to get in more local diving before it gets real cold.
You said...
> of the motels on Sound Avenue. You'll be a five minute drive from three easy, safe shore dives in the Sound,
Can you offer specifics on a cheap hotel or two and where a local dive shop is? Is there any group or shop that guides dives out there or where a novice could find folks to go with?
Thanks!
Scott
ScottyK
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Hey Guys-
Concollective- Diving up here will be different for you, to say the least
It is not, however, as bad as all that. The vis is not nearly as good, and you won't get the explosion of color, but if you go to the right places, there is plenty to see.
You will also, greatly increase your diving skills. Your navigating abilities will need to be top notch for certain dives, and at least passable for most. Dealing with the thicker suits and additonal weight will also take some getting used to. The good news is that after you get used to it, caribbean type diving will seem like swimming in a pool to you. Here is a brief idea of what you can expect.
Shore dives- North Shore, Long Island Sound. Good starting place, not much current or surge. Vis ranges from 5 to 15'. All you need to do if you get disoriented is know how to point yourself south. Worst case is you wind up on the beach a couple of hundred feet away from your car. The North Shore is littered with underwater boulders that range from basketball size right up to 40' diameter monsters that pop out of the water at low tide. Day and night dives are both fun, and you can expect to see lots of schools of smaller fish, crabs, lobsters, rays, seaweed gardens, puffers, pipefish and eels.
Once you get used to the conditions, you can try some of the South Shore inlet dives and Montauk. On the SS you can see larger fish, like Striped Bass and Bluefish. There are also tropicals that get washed up on the Gulf Stream in August and September. These dives are a little more challenging because the tides turn, and accelerate very quickly near the inlets. You need to arrive on time, and watch your bottom time carefully, but it's well worth it.
Boat dives- Normally better vis, and more and bigger marine life. They have trips that range from 50' right up to the Andrea Doria at 230' and everything in between. Be comfortable running a guideline and navigating. You can't normally see the boat or the anchor line very well. You can try a guided boat dive through Hampton Dive www.hamptondive.com
As for motels Scott, there's the Soundview Inn and a couple of others. Hopefully it clears up enough for me to dive this weekend, and I'll write down some more names for you. Sound View Scuba is also right out there, and I believe they will take you diving. If you come out this way, I'm sure Jen and I can meet you at one of the sites and help get you started. You can tag along with us for the dive also if it makes you feel more comfortable. I would also recommend that you get the book on LI shore diving. Lots of good tips and driving directions.
Concollective- Diving up here will be different for you, to say the least
It is not, however, as bad as all that. The vis is not nearly as good, and you won't get the explosion of color, but if you go to the right places, there is plenty to see. You will also, greatly increase your diving skills. Your navigating abilities will need to be top notch for certain dives, and at least passable for most. Dealing with the thicker suits and additonal weight will also take some getting used to. The good news is that after you get used to it, caribbean type diving will seem like swimming in a pool to you. Here is a brief idea of what you can expect.
Shore dives- North Shore, Long Island Sound. Good starting place, not much current or surge. Vis ranges from 5 to 15'. All you need to do if you get disoriented is know how to point yourself south. Worst case is you wind up on the beach a couple of hundred feet away from your car. The North Shore is littered with underwater boulders that range from basketball size right up to 40' diameter monsters that pop out of the water at low tide. Day and night dives are both fun, and you can expect to see lots of schools of smaller fish, crabs, lobsters, rays, seaweed gardens, puffers, pipefish and eels.
Once you get used to the conditions, you can try some of the South Shore inlet dives and Montauk. On the SS you can see larger fish, like Striped Bass and Bluefish. There are also tropicals that get washed up on the Gulf Stream in August and September. These dives are a little more challenging because the tides turn, and accelerate very quickly near the inlets. You need to arrive on time, and watch your bottom time carefully, but it's well worth it.
Boat dives- Normally better vis, and more and bigger marine life. They have trips that range from 50' right up to the Andrea Doria at 230' and everything in between. Be comfortable running a guideline and navigating. You can't normally see the boat or the anchor line very well. You can try a guided boat dive through Hampton Dive www.hamptondive.com
As for motels Scott, there's the Soundview Inn and a couple of others. Hopefully it clears up enough for me to dive this weekend, and I'll write down some more names for you. Sound View Scuba is also right out there, and I believe they will take you diving. If you come out this way, I'm sure Jen and I can meet you at one of the sites and help get you started. You can tag along with us for the dive also if it makes you feel more comfortable. I would also recommend that you get the book on LI shore diving. Lots of good tips and driving directions.
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