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Hi Everyone,
Halloween dives are lots of fun in Jocassee at this time of the year!!! The lake is down AGAIN by 20 feet. What this means is that the Grave Yard is in the sport divers range, 120 feet deep. You will need a dry suit or warm wet suit like 7-8 mm or layer out with that kind of coverage for a no decompression dive. A thermos full of hot water to add to your wet suit before the dive and hot tea, coffee or cocoa for afterwards. It is so cool to dive the Mt. Carmel Graveyard (the one you see in the Movie "Deliverence" which came out in the early 70's). This is the real thing at the bottom of the lake. There are abandoned graves and ones that were never moved to the new church site just a couple of miles away on the hill. The old Cedar Tree and the Forest will greet you on you decent to the clearing. As you swim past the exhumed graves and the occupied graves you can see the newly lifted "Hinkle Stone" reset on the base. There are plans to upright the "Whitmire Stone" once the correct base is found through family photos. Many scarey things are down there to see in the day dives and the night dives on the cemetary. We are the keepers of the Graveyard now and out of respect for the resting persons there, come with us and blow the dust off the gravestones so they are not buried in the silt of time. Contact us at http://www.offthewalldiving.com and visit a place of peace and rest to become a keeper of history on the original Mount Carmel Graveyard.
Halloween dives are lots of fun in Jocassee at this time of the year!!! The lake is down AGAIN by 20 feet. What this means is that the Grave Yard is in the sport divers range, 120 feet deep. You will need a dry suit or warm wet suit like 7-8 mm or layer out with that kind of coverage for a no decompression dive. A thermos full of hot water to add to your wet suit before the dive and hot tea, coffee or cocoa for afterwards. It is so cool to dive the Mt. Carmel Graveyard (the one you see in the Movie "Deliverence" which came out in the early 70's). This is the real thing at the bottom of the lake. There are abandoned graves and ones that were never moved to the new church site just a couple of miles away on the hill. The old Cedar Tree and the Forest will greet you on you decent to the clearing. As you swim past the exhumed graves and the occupied graves you can see the newly lifted "Hinkle Stone" reset on the base. There are plans to upright the "Whitmire Stone" once the correct base is found through family photos. Many scarey things are down there to see in the day dives and the night dives on the cemetary. We are the keepers of the Graveyard now and out of respect for the resting persons there, come with us and blow the dust off the gravestones so they are not buried in the silt of time. Contact us at http://www.offthewalldiving.com and visit a place of peace and rest to become a keeper of history on the original Mount Carmel Graveyard.
