Low vis buddy system

[diver 85]

Tons....lion fish, dog fish, soft coral, sponge, stripers, seah horse, tons of tropicals in the summer, star fish, crabs, lobster, trash, the list goes on and on and this is all in two feet of viz from the shore in Queens NY mind you.

The best part is what you don't see...other divers kicking up the crud since they scrapped the dive due to low viz. Priceless. Just sit there in the muck and it all eventually just comes to you.

If you're going to see all that from the shore, why make a dive--just stand there & save yourself alot of trouble ...

 

[Dr Neil]

When the visibility is low diving the wreck off the Virginia-North Carolina coast, the safest method is to layout a line using a wreck reel. Using a buddy line in an underater scrap yard is not safe (been there-done that).

I've been on dive boats that will move to an alternate location based on the experience level of the divers on the boat. It's much easier to dive in low vis with inexperienced divers when the wreck is intact. Simply keeping the wreck off the same shoulder will get you back to the anchor line.

 

[divingdesigns.com]

There has only been one time when I called the dive (and consequently the entire day) becuase the viz was so low. My husbands' fin was touching my mask and with one kick I would lose sight and have to surface. Unfortunately it takes us 3 hours each direction to get to diving from our place. So, that day we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium instead and had a great time.