Looking for Dive shop on Winni. in NH

[Soggy]

As far as tech dives in the Lake...I'd say not really. The best diving is between 20 and 40 feet...at 80 feet, you're essentially in the dark. The Lake does go quite deep, but you're not gonna see anything.

Why am I not going to see anything? Is the water incredibly silty and vis is poor or is it just dark? Dark is irrelevent...we have lights for that, but if it is so silty that you can't see your hand in front of your face that is a different matter.

 

[Curly]

Lots of suspended organic material. Depends where you are on the lake, too. But in the areas that get really deep, light is scarce below 60 feet.

 

[Soggy]

Lots of suspended organic material. Depends where you are on the lake, too. But in the areas that get really deep, light is scarce below 60 feet.

I bring my own light. That's what I'm trying to determine. Is it just dark or is there no vis? They are two different things. Dark = ok, no vis = sucks.

 

[Curly]

Oh yeah, I always bring light when diving Winni. Like I said, it depends. Much of it is a darkness issue, but the deeper you get, the higher the concentration of the suspended matter -- so it's actually both light and viz. The bottom in the deeper parts is pure muck...fine, silty accumulated organic matter typical of a lake in that stage of its lifecycle. You could stick your arms all the way in with ease. In the process, you kick up even more crap...compounding the already nil viz.

 

[lakewinni]

No theres just no vis. I've had a 10W HID down there and seen like 4 inches in front of it. Maybe it varies but when I've been down below 60' there is tons of silt and particulate in the water.

 

[Curly]

Yeah -- 60-70 seems to be the magic number where the lights go out. Even at a relatively shallow wreck, like "Empty Pockets" near Diamond Island (~54 ft) it's pretty dark. I went down toward the 80' wreck near Ship Island, and it got very dark very quickly...and the light didn't do much.

 

[Soggy]

No theres just no vis. I've had a 10W HID down there and seen like 4 inches in front of it. Maybe it varies but when I've been down below 60' there is tons of silt and particulate in the water.

Thanks...that is what I was trying to determine.

 

[603doug]

lady of the lake is great through the ice, alot of wrecks etc . i have a 18' rigid always looking for a dive

 

[jdelprete]

I have to reiterate what Curly said. Tom and Dave at Dive Winni are great. Back before 1997 I went to college at Plymouth State and took my OW, AOW and 4 specialties through Dive Winni with Tom and Dave. Great guys, fair prices on rental and I have gone back year after year for tax free gear. You can't go wrong with them.

 

[jdelprete]

Oh, as to the lady of the lake, I haven't dove it but was told from a DI that it basically burned down to the waterline before it sank so only the hull is left.... true?