Palm Beach Dive Thread

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I think the reefs will do good ......
I'll take back everything I said....

The Dredge E.W. Ellefson, a cutter/suction dredge, is expected to remove approximately 191,000 cubic yards of shoaling material from the entrance channel and the settling basins over 2-3 weeks. Operations will continue 24 hours daily, seven days a week, until completion. Dredge material placement will be pumped and screened onto the adjacent beach at Palm Beach Island, immediately south of the inlet’s south jetty.

Construction activities on the beach, which include preparation, actual placement of dredge material, and demobilization, will begin on or around Feb 17, 2025, and take place over a 5–6-week period


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I'll take back everything I said....

The Dredge E.W. Ellefson, a cutter/suction dredge, is expected to remove approximately 191,000 cubic yards of shoaling material from the entrance channel and the settling basins over 2-3 weeks. Operations will continue 24 hours daily, seven days a week, until completion. Dredge material placement will be pumped and screened onto the adjacent beach at Palm Beach Island, immediately south of the inlet’s south jetty.

I should probably quit screwing around with my current career and get on with dredging, where the big money is at.
 
I'll take back everything I said....

The Dredge E.W. Ellefson, a cutter/suction dredge, is expected to remove approximately 191,000 cubic yards of shoaling material from the entrance channel and the settling basins over 2-3 weeks. Operations will continue 24 hours daily, seven days a week, until completion. Dredge material placement will be pumped and screened onto the adjacent beach at Palm Beach Island, immediately south of the inlet’s south jetty.

Construction activities on the beach, which include preparation, actual placement of dredge material, and demobilization, will begin on or around Feb 17, 2025, and take place over a 5–6-week period


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Thanks for the info @Johnoly. Sounds like they should be done around late March/early April based upon listed timeline.

I wonder how far up the coast the turbid water will reach, assuming the typical north current? It certainly isn’t gonna be good for viz at BHB, I’m just wondering what its impact on viz is going to be up the coast north from Lake Worth Inlet.
 
Thanks for the info @Johnoly. Sounds like they should be done around late March/early April based upon listed timeline.

I wonder how far up the coast the turbid water will reach, assuming the typical north current? It certainly isn’t gonna be good for viz at BHB, I’m just wondering what its impact on viz is going to be up the coast north from Lake Worth Inlet.
Beach sand placement jobs usually have to wrap up before the official start of turtle nesting season, unless they get a waiver. All the ones I've been involved in typically start up in winter and have to wrap up in April. That's for the east coast of FL at least; I've worked on jobs in Key West that placed sand in summer but that was trucked in from an inland mine rather than dredged from an inlet or borrow area (and a much smaller beach to survey for nests, plus work during daylight hours only).
 
disagree on dredging and beach renourishment must be done before nesting season. too many of them continue late into April and may.
 
I wonder how far up the coast the turbid water will reach, assuming the typical north current?

You think as far as Jupiter?
 
yesterday out of Boynton, on the wrecks south and reefs to the north, mild north current, 30-45 ft hazy blue water, white caps and blowing from the southeast pretty hard. Snorkeling, didn't see much, but the sharks were an issue on the reefs, buddy lost a fish and shaft. Maybe 73 degrees?
 
Went out on Pura Vida this morning. Quinn and Todd were DMs with Captain Jason. Ambar was training someone new. North Double Ledges. 30 ft vis. No current. Saw a few bulls. A loggerhead and a smaller turtle. Than governors river walk. More bulls and some Goliath groupers. Seas were maybe 2 ft.
 
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