Lake 16 Dive Report

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Oldpirate

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Felt the need to get wet Sunday so we headed out to Lake 16 in Allegan County. For those who don't know, it's a small, spring-fed (read:cold!) lake that's been clandestinely set up as a dive training site, with platforms, sunken boats, cars, snowmobiles, etc.

The dive team was Ross Richardson, Todd White, Bob Underhill, Carl (sorry Carl, didn't get your last name) and me.

Carl was diving the new Aqualung double-hose retro rig -- and even did the Mike Nelson flip to bring the hose up over his head!) Ross was trying out his doubles, while Todd, Bob and I dove singles. I, being the wuss I am, dove with my Aga full-face mask. I was nice and toasty even in the 39-40 degree water..

Todd, Ross and I were dry, while Bob and Carl dived their Uni-suits with wet hoods and gloves, which made them semi-dry (or "wet" as we call it!) ;)

The viz was close to 25 feet which, as Lake 16 divers know, is very rare. Usually it's about 5 feet. Ross and I had made the same dive a week earlier and viz was awful. Maximum depth was about 85 feet.

Most of us made the whole circuit, with plenty of air left to frog around at the main platform for a while. Lots of new "treasure" has been brought to the platform in the form of a typewriter, a clock, hammer, hatchet and other items of questionable interest. Oh well, beats looking at nothing...

I understand the platform and "bell" were tilted and about to sink a few weeks ago but Mike Palmer and the American Dive Zone crew put in some labor to spruce things up. Thanks, Mike!

Afterwards it was beer at the Sam's Joint-"Red Brick Inn", then home in time to see Jack Bauer save the world again!:popcorn:
 
cool...literally. :D I might be there when I can use my 7mm.
 
Yeah, most of the wet suit divers drop off the edge of the platform then suddenly decide it was nice up there. ;)
 
Is Lake 16 iced over yet? I would like to get a dive in there this coming Saturday. I'm sure I can talk some others into coming also

Glad you like some of our new treasures (typewriter, clock, etc...) Another diver donated them and we carried them out (the typewriter and clock were heavy and its tiring to swim with them). We are looking for some new goodies also- got tired of seeing the same thing all the time. We also added the paper puzzles in the spring/summer as narcosis teasers!

We haven't been out there for a while, got kind of burned out on lake 16 and low vis since we had been going so often, but if the vis is good it's worth another trip
 
I had a dive planned there for last weekend but it was iced over. Probably not so much that you couldn't break through but more than I was comfortable with. I just went to the pool instead to check out my gear. Now, as I type this, I'm sitting on a beach in Key Largo!
 

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