jmani
Contributor
Well just returned from the Yukon yesterday.
Let me start off with the crew of the Louis Anne is top notch! They were very friendly, and professional, and as we chartered the boat let us go to the sites we choose as we boarded the boat. We choose to go to the Yukon and the Ingram Street Bridge.
The vis for the Yukon dive was only about 10'. I took lots of pics of sand scattered through the water. We made our dive plan to go to the wheel house as a group and tour the wreck from there. We dropped down the line, and promptly got lost from the rest of the group. So my buddy and I gave up the plan and headed for the stern and bottom of the ship. We hit a max depth of 105' and checked out the holes cut into the hull below the water line. There were a few fish and one giant crab hanging out down there. At this point I decided to take another picture of sand suspended in water, thinking it was a crab. By this point the dive computer was saying...hey what are you doing down here? Shouldnt you be heading up about now? So we headed for the top of the ship to make our way to the mooring line amidships. But wouldn't you know it...somebody went and moved the line. I swear it was right there when we went down. So when my buddy was starting to get low on air we decided to make a free water ascent. This was actually the best free water ascent I have ever made. After 2 minutes of our safety stop my buddy showed me his gauge and his eyes bulged out, and he kicked the rest of the way to the surface. At which point I thought I guess I could surface too and followed. We came up directly between the two mooring lines. I tell you they moved them while we were under!
All in all it was an excellent dive. I won't bore you with the Ingram street dive as it was a fairly uneventful lobster hunt. The only problem was the lobster would not cooperate and get in the bag. The 4 or so in the bag were just too small to keep.
If anybody is going to make their way down to San Diego I highly recommend diving with the Lois Anne.
Thanks for listening.
John
Let me start off with the crew of the Louis Anne is top notch! They were very friendly, and professional, and as we chartered the boat let us go to the sites we choose as we boarded the boat. We choose to go to the Yukon and the Ingram Street Bridge.
The vis for the Yukon dive was only about 10'. I took lots of pics of sand scattered through the water. We made our dive plan to go to the wheel house as a group and tour the wreck from there. We dropped down the line, and promptly got lost from the rest of the group. So my buddy and I gave up the plan and headed for the stern and bottom of the ship. We hit a max depth of 105' and checked out the holes cut into the hull below the water line. There were a few fish and one giant crab hanging out down there. At this point I decided to take another picture of sand suspended in water, thinking it was a crab. By this point the dive computer was saying...hey what are you doing down here? Shouldnt you be heading up about now? So we headed for the top of the ship to make our way to the mooring line amidships. But wouldn't you know it...somebody went and moved the line. I swear it was right there when we went down. So when my buddy was starting to get low on air we decided to make a free water ascent. This was actually the best free water ascent I have ever made. After 2 minutes of our safety stop my buddy showed me his gauge and his eyes bulged out, and he kicked the rest of the way to the surface. At which point I thought I guess I could surface too and followed. We came up directly between the two mooring lines. I tell you they moved them while we were under!
All in all it was an excellent dive. I won't bore you with the Ingram street dive as it was a fairly uneventful lobster hunt. The only problem was the lobster would not cooperate and get in the bag. The 4 or so in the bag were just too small to keep.
If anybody is going to make their way down to San Diego I highly recommend diving with the Lois Anne.
Thanks for listening.
John
