Muck diving sanity tips?

[Bob DBF]

Sounds like my kind of diving! On your suggestion I picked up 1,000 feet of line yesterday. Now if I can blunder my way into some solid tie off points.

Ours was easy, it looks like someone cut up a small pickup and dropped the parts over a 100 yard length of the bridge. That with a couple of shopping carts, water heater, kitchen stove, refrigerator, large steel water tank, semi tire, 2 commercial compressors (for jackhammers), then add some large rocks, small trees and old steel fence posts. We did move a few things around with lift bags for better spacing.

One interesting feature was the cone forest. Imagine diving the featureless mud bottom and out of the darkness comes 20 or so orange traffic cones, all sitting upright in an irregular circle.

The lines kept us from getting too lost, and when completed we could cross that part of the lake underwater. Unfortunately the trip back was on the surface due to gas, but we would be in deco if we had enough gas for a round trip.

The reason we even started diving there was because the ocean was blown out and we just had to dive, we were lucky that it turned out to be fun as well.


Bob

 

[Jayfarmlaw]

We just go deep enough to still have plenty of light and look for stuff. Lots of snapped fishing lines so we wind those up on a rock and leave it on the bottom. I found an ancient Mayan silver time keeping sun dial on our last dive....my wife says it's a pan lid....but what does she know.... good Okie Muck diving may be 6-10 feet vis., usually much less. But it's great for practicing navigation. Good luck! Jay