Lake Pleasant Conditions II

[ScubaSteve2000]

I sent the Scorpion Bay Marina an email asking about diving there and here is their answer....

Hi Steve,
There are some good spots to go off the shore at our location . It will be really good if the water goes down about 17ft as our low water parking lot comes up and we will have a very good surface area for divers to use as a platform. On the marina itself the beach access is very limited and very steep so unless we were to go off the docks themselves it would not be that great. I think the area by our dry storage is were we will be able to handle groups who wish to dive , fish , ski etc. I would be happy to show and tell you anytime you want to come out to the facility. I can be reached at 623-297-9920.Thank's for your inquiry Steve.

Cris McSparen
General Manager
Scorpion Bay Marina

So it sounds like we're going to be able to dive there. Who's up for checking it out this Sunday?

Steve.

 

[PhxSki]

I sent the Scorpion Bay Marina an email asking about diving there and here is their answer....

Hi Steve,
There are some good spots to go off the shore at our location . It will be really good if the water goes down about 17ft as our low water parking lot comes up and we will have a very good surface area for divers to use as a platform. On the marina itself the beach access is very limited and very steep so unless we were to go off the docks themselves it would not be that great. I think the area by our dry storage is were we will be able to handle groups who wish to dive , fish , ski etc. I would be happy to show and tell you anytime you want to come out to the facility. I can be reached at 623-297-9920.Thank's for your inquiry Steve.

Cris McSparen
General Manager
Scorpion Bay Marina

So it sounds like we're going to be able to dive there. Who's up for checking it out this Sunday?

Steve.

The site which I know as Scorpion Bay is essentially a relatively small cove situated to the south of where the floating boat docks are situated. I'm wondering whether the "dry storage" area referred to is anywhere near this cove. Either way, you can count me in for next Sunday morning.

Regards, BW

 

[booth22]

I think the area the marina folks referred to is Dirty Shirt, as there is a large parking lot near that area.

 

[fkostyun]

That is pretty cool that they appear to be open to scuba divers!!! (and diver friendly)

 

[ScubaSteve2000]

Bill and anybody else that wants to go diving on Sunday...

How does meeting at 9:00am Sunday morning at Scorpion Bay sound? We can meet in the marina parking lot and go from there.

 

[PhxSki]

Bill and anybody else that wants to go diving on Sunday...

How does meeting at 9:00am Sunday morning at Scorpion Bay sound? We can meet in the marina parking lot and go from there.

Sunday morning at 9:00 am at the marina parking lot sounds good. See you there.

Regards, Bill

 

[Cindy Fox]

Hi All!

I'm excited to see all the active divers in here! I've never been able to convince my husband to dive, so I'm just taking it back on my own again and looking for groups and dive buddies to go with.

I've already made plans to go to LP on Sat, so I don't know if I'll be up for the drive again on Sun, but I'll certainly look forward to joining you on another day. I can try to drag my fam up there for the RV camping and gold panning but not this weekend as we have a bbq sat night at our place.

I'm from the east, so I'm used to quarries, bays and ocean, all dark. Any wrecks down on LP bottom? Any maps or cool info anywhere?

ScubaSteve has been giving me great info on private email as I thought he might be another ScubaSteve I know, but all dive info is welcome!

As is info on the boards. I still don't know what a dork diver is or what badges they're referring to!

Take care and I look forward to meeting you all IRL.

c.

 

[booth22]

Welcome to the boards, glad to have another diver in the area!

A few dive spots are on this map...

(you may have to click here Google Maps if the picture doesn't come up)

How far back east are you from, we've got folks from all who have transplanted to the desert.

Keep and eye on the forum and you'll always find someone headed up to the lake to dive with (usually Steve!)

Welcome aboard, Kris (and Mindy)

 

[Cindy Fox]

Thanks, Kris (and Mindy),

Thanks! Awesome map! Anything under the water? I'm used to diving in on real wrecks in the ocean or quarries with entertaining wrecks sunk for us - boats, planes, tanker truck. I was thinking more of an underwater map, but this is great too! Now I know where people are talking about! Hmm, if there isn't one, is anyone interested in collabarating on one? Shelves, depths, sights, or am I just too old school or isn't there anything to see other than fishes? I dove a lake in Nebraska once - big old catfish! Not much else but mud.

Back east. I mean all the way back east - real back east - east east - east coast. We have an ocean and a bay in Maryland. I've lived on both sides of the Chesapeake Bay and goin' down the ocean this summer. It's just a longer commute from here...

Yah, it's great to find this forum! I look forward to meeting you all in real life!

take care, c.

 

[ScubaSteve2000]

I'll tell you some of the "stories" that I've heard. The first one I know to be true. The rest, who knows? All I know is what people tell me.

There is a bust of George Washington at 80 feet, just off the submerged road north of Beisemeyer Point. Greg Parsons took a picture and crustyscubapirate posted it.

There is supposed to be a set of rail road tracks at 330º off Vista Point. I don't remember the distance.

There is supposed to be a village someplace underwater, I think that the tracks go through it and again, I don't remember the particulars. (I told you that I learn something with every dive but at my age it's the REMEMBERING that's the trick)

I've explored several deep trenches on both sides of the lake. The deepest I found was a few weeks ago with Josh (AZdiver23) due north off the Two Cow Cove area. We were at 70 feet in pretty clear conditions (30'vis) and the beam of my dive light couldn't penetrate to the bottom. There were huge bolders strewn around like a giant baby's playpen. We had reached our turn around presure so we couldn't explore it.

The size of the lake was increased in the late 80s and there are still a lot of very large ghostly looking trees that appear out of the haze as you swim along, one we call the hanging tree because there is a length of rope hanging down from the branches. I've threatened to put up a mannequin for holloween.

There are some fairly large culverts asking for some brave (foolish?) caver to explore. There are some wall features too. Several of us have found cold hard cash at depth. The most interesting one was Rudebob finding a sock containing 30 bi-centenial silver dollars the weekend before Easter.

Okay sports fans, who else has heard strange stories from the depths of Lake Pleasant??