SuPrBuGmAn
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I arrived at Navarre Beach around 8AM Saturday morning to see SeaYoda had already arrived. viajerochevere, frankc420, and two of their buddies(big one-armed marc and randy) had already arrived as well. We all introduced ourselves and NateBrr arrived as well. Our dive plan was simple, we'd don our gear, head to the water, swim to the pier, and follow it south until it ends and perhaps further to see if we could find additional rubble supposedly further out.
After heading out of the knee-high surf, we finned up and headed underwater. Visibility was ~5' at first and we headed south and west. SeaYoda was the only other diver I had in view, but with visibility, I wasn't sure if everyone was trailing behind or doing their own thing. We either jetted between pylons without noticing them(vis wasn't very high afterall) or we passed through an area of the pier that been knocked out without spans at all. The end result was the same, we overshot the pier and ended further west than intended. We did, however, find the remains of an old wooden pier that had once layed just west of the current rubble. I surfaced to get our bearing and we made our way to the intended pier. There was quite a bit of junegrass and sawgrass caught up on the rubble. Lots and lots of fish, baitfish, mangroves, spanish mac, tropicals, flounder, ect. Visibility had improved to 15-25' and we were buzzed by a 2' remora, a few large redfish(red drum), and even a pair of grouper. We found an octopus hiding away between some rebar hanging off some rubble. SeaYoda and I did swim south of the pier pylons, atleast 100m, but found no remains of any other rubble. We hit a max depth of 30', so perhaps it had been covered in sand? Our dive lasted 67 minutes. We met up with everyone else, they'd already finished their dives, and everyone seemed to have had a great time.
Guess we have another dive site
~4.5 hour later, we'd be back in the water diving the Alabama Point Jetties in Orange Beach, AL, followed by 2 additional dives at the Whiskey Wreck in Gulf Shores, AL. Reports on those will be posted in the Dixie Diver Forum.
After heading out of the knee-high surf, we finned up and headed underwater. Visibility was ~5' at first and we headed south and west. SeaYoda was the only other diver I had in view, but with visibility, I wasn't sure if everyone was trailing behind or doing their own thing. We either jetted between pylons without noticing them(vis wasn't very high afterall) or we passed through an area of the pier that been knocked out without spans at all. The end result was the same, we overshot the pier and ended further west than intended. We did, however, find the remains of an old wooden pier that had once layed just west of the current rubble. I surfaced to get our bearing and we made our way to the intended pier. There was quite a bit of junegrass and sawgrass caught up on the rubble. Lots and lots of fish, baitfish, mangroves, spanish mac, tropicals, flounder, ect. Visibility had improved to 15-25' and we were buzzed by a 2' remora, a few large redfish(red drum), and even a pair of grouper. We found an octopus hiding away between some rebar hanging off some rubble. SeaYoda and I did swim south of the pier pylons, atleast 100m, but found no remains of any other rubble. We hit a max depth of 30', so perhaps it had been covered in sand? Our dive lasted 67 minutes. We met up with everyone else, they'd already finished their dives, and everyone seemed to have had a great time.
Guess we have another dive site
~4.5 hour later, we'd be back in the water diving the Alabama Point Jetties in Orange Beach, AL, followed by 2 additional dives at the Whiskey Wreck in Gulf Shores, AL. Reports on those will be posted in the Dixie Diver Forum.
