Lord Jim wreck (Saanich Inlet)

[MarkH]

I finally found this thing. It was a closely-guarded secret, but I cracked the code. HuuHuuaHaHaa!!! (evil laugh).... anyways, here's the link to my dive today:http://www.victoriadiving.50megs.com/lordjim.html

 

[SeanQ]

Looks like a pretty interesting wreak. No wait; you made it sound interesting.

How far away was the strobe mounted? The lighting seems to be coming from odd angles in the pictures from under the hull. Maybe it is an illusion from the wide angle lens?

 

[MarkH]

Looks like a pretty interesting wreak. No wait; you made it sound interesting.

How far away was the strobe mounted? The lighting seems to be coming from odd angles in the pictures from under the hull. Maybe it is an illusion from the wide angle lens?

The strobe was mounted about 1 foot away from the lens. I put the camera on the sand under the hull (sometimes it was laying flat on it's back pointing straight up). The wide-angle lens definitely makes the vis look better than it was.

 

[MarkH]

By the way, if you go to this link:http://www.millbaymarina.com/view.htm (for the Mill Bay Marina) and scroll to the right in the "virtual tour" picture, there is a black and white boat in the background off the point behind the marina. It seems to match pretty close with what I saw underwater and it's sort of in the right area.

 

[Hyper-limits]

Interesting find Mark, It would definitely be nice to go back with you whenever the viz clear and take some more pictures. My favorite portion of your description is "After a short swim, I reached 20 feet depths and visibility opened up to an amazing 3 feet" that explain pretty much how the viz in the inlet at the moment.

 

[CapitanBlack]

Hi Mark!
I see it was cool dive! Even feel a bit envy - in good sense, of course!
Ahhh! Need to move to Victoria ASAP...

Good luck mate and see you soon!
Evgeny

 

[MarkH]

Hi Mark!
I see it was cool dive! Even feel a bit envy - in good sense, of course!
Ahhh! Need to move to Victoria ASAP...

Good luck mate and see you soon!
Evgeny

If the visibility was good, it would be a great dive, but with the 1 meter vis (it started clearing up at the end of the dive though) it wouldn't be worth coming all the way from Switzerland to do it. I'll definitely be back though.

 

[MarkH]

Interesting find Mark, It would definitely be nice to go back with you whenever the viz clear and take some more pictures. My favorite portion of your description is "After a short swim, I reached 20 feet depths and visibility opened up to an amazing 3 feet" that explain pretty much how the viz in the inlet at the moment.

I was hoping you would offer to come. I wasn't sure you still got out of bed for dives shallower than 150 feeteyebrow . If you like, we could tint your mask lenses so it seems deeper and darker than it really is. You could even have a few martinis to feel narced.

 

[MarkH]

By the way, the vis in the shallows was so bad that I didn't know I had bumped into a rock until I noticed that it was hard to swim forward. I could only see my gauge if I held it a few inches in front of my face. All I'm asking for is 20 feet of vis and I'll be happy. I think next time I go, I'll try to do it at high tide.

 

[Hyper-limits]

I was hoping you would offer to come. I wasn't sure you still got out of bed for dives shallower than 150 feeteyebrow . If you like, we could tint your mask lenses so it seems deeper and darker than it really is. You could even have a few martinis to feel narced.

I will definitely go, and yes I do get out of bed for good shallow dive. It nice to strap a single tank once in while and not have to worry about carrying a ton of equipment.
However I will wait until the viz clear to go.