Randy g
Contributor
Quick trip report from last weekend.
Capt James aka Tortuga Charters seems to bring a lot of happiness to my weekends on the NC water!
Doubled on the Papoose and hit the Spar and another little wreck, I didn't care to get the name of. Current was SMOKIN on saturday on the first jump. Only releaf was inside the walls of the wreck, it had a neat little swim through. It was Kates first jump into current and she handled it like a champ. Second was an easy dive on the Spar. I dropped into the holds and back up. Dinked around the now canted wreck from one side to the other. It was the first time since the Hurricane moved it, spun and tipped her that we dove it. Nice wreck for training but not a lot of character............. yet. Give it a few years and it will be a pretty damn cool wreck.
Papoose never fails to deliver for us! I terminated (with great pleasure
) a dozen lion fish and brought back 4 nice ones. From the initial drop onto the wreck the sand tigers were circulating. I killed and left everything I came across up until we started heading to the anchor to ascend. I kept the last 2 on each dive. They were DELICIOUS last night. It helps to have a great cook prepping and cooking them. I took Kate into the big break. It was her first time going into anything and she really enjoyed the swim. We had a huge loggerhead swim right down to use, like within 5 ft of us!! Slipped under a plate of metal and took a nap. Dolphins were surfing the swells withing 5-10 feet of the boat on the surface interval.
Vis was 30-40' on the bottom and 60-70' above the thermocline on all wrecks with temps in the mid 70's on the bottom and high 70s down to 70ft.
Cant wait for our next trip down to bring back even more lion fish!:koh:
Capt James aka Tortuga Charters seems to bring a lot of happiness to my weekends on the NC water!
Doubled on the Papoose and hit the Spar and another little wreck, I didn't care to get the name of. Current was SMOKIN on saturday on the first jump. Only releaf was inside the walls of the wreck, it had a neat little swim through. It was Kates first jump into current and she handled it like a champ. Second was an easy dive on the Spar. I dropped into the holds and back up. Dinked around the now canted wreck from one side to the other. It was the first time since the Hurricane moved it, spun and tipped her that we dove it. Nice wreck for training but not a lot of character............. yet. Give it a few years and it will be a pretty damn cool wreck.
Papoose never fails to deliver for us! I terminated (with great pleasure
) a dozen lion fish and brought back 4 nice ones. From the initial drop onto the wreck the sand tigers were circulating. I killed and left everything I came across up until we started heading to the anchor to ascend. I kept the last 2 on each dive. They were DELICIOUS last night. It helps to have a great cook prepping and cooking them. I took Kate into the big break. It was her first time going into anything and she really enjoyed the swim. We had a huge loggerhead swim right down to use, like within 5 ft of us!! Slipped under a plate of metal and took a nap. Dolphins were surfing the swells withing 5-10 feet of the boat on the surface interval. Vis was 30-40' on the bottom and 60-70' above the thermocline on all wrecks with temps in the mid 70's on the bottom and high 70s down to 70ft.
Cant wait for our next trip down to bring back even more lion fish!:koh:
