Our first Beavertail Night Dive

[ScubaSarus]

Our Beavertail club did its first Beavertail Night Dive. It was everything and more. Getting in was fine since we barely made it in before darkness was upon us. We anchored our lighted flag at the entry so we could locate the exit. Upon descent we noticed the vis was around 30 ft. We proceded Northerly and found our carverns and we descended in and out of the caverns. It is important to keep note of your overhead environment since I did end up in a overhead tight squeeze with no way forward causing me to back out (a bit scary and caused an adrenaline rush). Going thru the caverns at night was awsome. At 30 ft we saw the most beautiful lumpfish that was in no hurry to get away (it looked like shallacked wood grain). At 50 ft we turned West and my buddy had his light on a squid that actually swam towards us and touched my mask (awsome). On our way in we swam thru another cavern and came across an eel slithering on the sandstone. Just a wonderful dive. Our exit was tough since we had to crawl out and did have some tiny surff making it tough for me to exit with the flag. I would have to rate this as one of my best 5 night dives ever. I would recommend carrying 3 lights on this dive because one is also needed for walking up the cliff. Water temps were a cozy 57-60+. We plan on doing another one soon for the members that couldn't make this dive.

Chris

 

[Clutchcargo]

Sounds like an awesome dive. Is parking lot #3? I've been there during the day several times and have yet to find the caverns but the vis was never better than around 15-20'. Do you have a heading I can try next time?
Thx
Cjh

 

[ScubaSarus]

Enter at were you see the rusted poles sticking out of the rock. From there swim 90 deg Easterly a bit then turn North towards Mackeral Cove. Keep an eye out for the caverns that start in 10-15 ft of water. Most divers simply head out east to deeper water and miss the caverns completely. If you want I will email when we are diving Beavertail again and see if you can join us. We are concentrating though on finding an elusive tunnel which we may have already found.

Chris

 

[Soggy]

Where is Beavertail? what are the depths like?

 

[ScubaSarus]

The Beavertail Lighthouse park is in Jamestown RI. It is the southern tip of Jamestown. It was also I think the second oldest lighthouse in the USA. Here is a link to the web sight.

http://www.beavertaillight.org/

Chris

 

[Clutchcargo]

Thanks Chris,
In one of the Dive RI books (can't remember the name) the description includes a 30' tunnel for the dive from PL3. Whenever we dive that site, we always try to find it, no luck so far. Good vis would be helpful.

 

[ScubaSarus]

Finding the tunnel has been our top priority of the dive group. We found what appears to be the next closest thing to a tunnel with a small gap overhead but not quite technically a tunnel. Its awsome to dive thru and is mentionable. We think this may be the tunnel Don Snyder talks about in the book. Its in the South area of PL #3 and goes out westward down to 35 ft

Chris