Lt CHEG
Contributor
My wife and I want to take out first family vacation with our daughter next summer. She’s currently only 8 months old so we didn’t do any travel this year but figure things will work out well logistically next year. Based upon a small amount of research and a lot of positive recommendations from family friends the Outer Banks are currently at the top of our list. We are talking about bringing our whole family, wife, baby and I, along with all the grandparents and figure this location would be very conducive to that. I am not a beach person and really can’t spend more than about a day on the beach, but I love scuba diving so the ability to do some wreck dives (the type of diving that I am most interested in) for me and some family relaxing time for everyone else seems like a great compromise.
My wife is thinking that Kitty Hawk is the place to stay. I realize that most of the really famous wreck dives are further south out of Morehead but it looks like I can still have some good diving at a reasonable distance from Kitty Hawk. Currently I’m looking at a dive charter company out of Roanoke Island that looks promising. They offer a dive of the U85 which I would love to do as well as many other good looking wrecks. Capt. JP also offers some tougher dives out of Hatteras which looks like it might work for a one day deal too. My thoughts are that I can probably break away from the family for 3 days total out of the week, when they are content doing just beach stuff. My thoughts are to hit Roanoke Island twice for some wreck diving and make the longer trip to Hatteras once for a more advanced dive. It looks like the U701 and U352 are both options from Capt JP and the City of Houston wreck also seems very appealing. Does this sound like a reasonable plan to anyone that has done this type of trip? Can you recommend any other charter companies or give any feedback on the ones that I have mentioned? Keeping in mind that I’m trying to balance my desire to do some cool wrecks with keeping the rest of my non diving family happy, does it seem like I’m headed in the right direction? Thanks in advance.
My wife is thinking that Kitty Hawk is the place to stay. I realize that most of the really famous wreck dives are further south out of Morehead but it looks like I can still have some good diving at a reasonable distance from Kitty Hawk. Currently I’m looking at a dive charter company out of Roanoke Island that looks promising. They offer a dive of the U85 which I would love to do as well as many other good looking wrecks. Capt. JP also offers some tougher dives out of Hatteras which looks like it might work for a one day deal too. My thoughts are that I can probably break away from the family for 3 days total out of the week, when they are content doing just beach stuff. My thoughts are to hit Roanoke Island twice for some wreck diving and make the longer trip to Hatteras once for a more advanced dive. It looks like the U701 and U352 are both options from Capt JP and the City of Houston wreck also seems very appealing. Does this sound like a reasonable plan to anyone that has done this type of trip? Can you recommend any other charter companies or give any feedback on the ones that I have mentioned? Keeping in mind that I’m trying to balance my desire to do some cool wrecks with keeping the rest of my non diving family happy, does it seem like I’m headed in the right direction? Thanks in advance.