fencingfish
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Reefseal and I went out to Old Garden Beach last night for a dusk dive. We were planning on heading towards the granite wall that we found the last time but didn't go out far enough before we cut over the rocky area. Consequently, we found ourselves swimming parallel to the shore for quite a ways and our return heading took us too far out, away from the beach. We knew something wasn't right as we kept getting deeper on "our way in" 
I got to try out my shnazzy new dive computer and fiddle around with it under water. Bottom time was 84 minutes with a max depth of 49 feet. Temperature at the surface was a balmy 64 degrees and it got down to 55 degrees at depth though the majority of our dive was spent at around 57 degrees. We saw some rock gunnels, an over-sized notched female lobster, and a bright yellow sea raven and plenty of keepers. We also saw a small lone scallop in a place and depth where scallops usually aren't. Blown in with the storms maybe?
So it wasn't quite our original dive plan, but it was enjoyable and we saw a number of interesting rock and boulder formations.
I got to try out my shnazzy new dive computer and fiddle around with it under water. Bottom time was 84 minutes with a max depth of 49 feet. Temperature at the surface was a balmy 64 degrees and it got down to 55 degrees at depth though the majority of our dive was spent at around 57 degrees. We saw some rock gunnels, an over-sized notched female lobster, and a bright yellow sea raven and plenty of keepers. We also saw a small lone scallop in a place and depth where scallops usually aren't. Blown in with the storms maybe?
So it wasn't quite our original dive plan, but it was enjoyable and we saw a number of interesting rock and boulder formations.
