Most unique dive in Alabama?

[mike_s]

They said it was in a stones throw of the beach anyway, so you could
just dredge it where it sits and shore dive it.

They apparantly did dredge it up in the 1960's. The Smithsonian Museum
ran the project. The interviewed one of the divers from then who dove
on it. He still lived in Mobile. They showed a few pic's. They apparantly
used suction hose dredges to move the silt. But the silt covered it
back up very quickly.

As for moving it, I'm betting after 150 years underwater that it's
much to fragile to move, even if it was still in good shape in 1960 something.
It also still has the remains of the union soldiers who were in the
ship when it sunk, so best not to disturb it in my opinion.
(but they did recover the Hunley which had remains in it.)

Yep it would be a neat dive if not covered in silt. How often would you
get to dive a Civil War "Ironclad". However, it being covered in silt
does also keep "looters" away from it.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Yeah, you're probably right about not moving it with remains still aboard. I figured it'd be too fragile, just wishfull thinking

Sures hell would be nice for the sands to just pull on back into the ocean a bit... impossible with the constant 'renourishment'.

 

[mike_s]

well the vis was really bad on the the show. I mean really bad. It was silty and milky and was stired up by the tides, even though they were diving it at high slack tide.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

There are supposedly some cannons just off the beach by Ft Morgan road, I tried finding them one time. Visibility was 3-5', brown, milky, with lots of crap floating around... and jellyfish. It clears up moreso when there is less rain though. Conditions have to be right