SuPrBuGmAn
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Got a bit of a late start this morning, left Underwater Works around 11AM after picking up some gear that was in for servicing and a couple fills. Patrick D was with me and we met Josh T at UWW. We had surf midweek but it layed down yesterday evening with the coldfront coming in. Northeast winds prevailed and we were hoping for optimal conditions.
Weather was great, it was cool with a north breeze, blue skies, perfect. Our group arrived in Fort Morgan and we geared up for our first dive. There was shin/ankle high surf and glassy seas past the break. The water was noticably clear from the beach, probably the clearest I've seen Fort Morgan since diving this site. We swam out on the surface and found the wreck without too much trouble, there is some seaweed onsite that covers most of the lower relief, but we still made the most out of the dive. Josh and Patrick brought polespears along for some flounder and both finished the dive happy with 5 & 7 fish respectively. I didn't intend to spear any, but couldn't help but take a 3+lber and another smaller fish sitting right next to the big one with Josh's polespear. There were several very legal mangroves and some blues that were probably legal as well. The site was covered in fish, schooling spades, scad, croaker, bluerunners, bluefish, mangroves, lookdowns, ect. There were a few small grouper onsite(nothing close to legal), damsels, white bellied sandfish, blennies, triggerfish(not legal), filefish, ect covering the wreck. Blue crabs still make their home here. We also spooked a large southern ray with a 4' foot wingspan. There were a few electric skates onsite too. Visibility was great for the area at 15-20' with water temps in the low 80sF. I got a bit cool after the 80 minute dive with a max depth of 17'.
We hit up Tequilla's(Mexican Resteraunt) in Gulf Shores afterwards and after a 2:08 surface interval, Patrick and I were back in the water(Josh went home after the first dive due to previous plans). This time we were diving the Whiskey Wreck. While we geared up, several divers were making their way out of water. Visibility was 10-15'. There was some seaweed onsite, but not enough to cover any of the divesite. The northend of the wreck seems to be washing out a bit, exposing a bit more wreckage. The southside and interior seem to be about the same. Spades, mangroves, bluefish, scad, seargant majors, schooled the wreck. Damsels, blennies, butterflies, lizardfish, robinfish, flounder(Gulf and Occelated), filefish, trigger, southern and electric rays could be found around the debrifield. Dive lasted 69 min with a max depth of 17'. No sign of jellyfish on either dive.
Couldn't ask for better conditions on the surface or underwater(well, maybe less seaweed on some of our sites). Another great day of diving
Weather was great, it was cool with a north breeze, blue skies, perfect. Our group arrived in Fort Morgan and we geared up for our first dive. There was shin/ankle high surf and glassy seas past the break. The water was noticably clear from the beach, probably the clearest I've seen Fort Morgan since diving this site. We swam out on the surface and found the wreck without too much trouble, there is some seaweed onsite that covers most of the lower relief, but we still made the most out of the dive. Josh and Patrick brought polespears along for some flounder and both finished the dive happy with 5 & 7 fish respectively. I didn't intend to spear any, but couldn't help but take a 3+lber and another smaller fish sitting right next to the big one with Josh's polespear. There were several very legal mangroves and some blues that were probably legal as well. The site was covered in fish, schooling spades, scad, croaker, bluerunners, bluefish, mangroves, lookdowns, ect. There were a few small grouper onsite(nothing close to legal), damsels, white bellied sandfish, blennies, triggerfish(not legal), filefish, ect covering the wreck. Blue crabs still make their home here. We also spooked a large southern ray with a 4' foot wingspan. There were a few electric skates onsite too. Visibility was great for the area at 15-20' with water temps in the low 80sF. I got a bit cool after the 80 minute dive with a max depth of 17'.
We hit up Tequilla's(Mexican Resteraunt) in Gulf Shores afterwards and after a 2:08 surface interval, Patrick and I were back in the water(Josh went home after the first dive due to previous plans). This time we were diving the Whiskey Wreck. While we geared up, several divers were making their way out of water. Visibility was 10-15'. There was some seaweed onsite, but not enough to cover any of the divesite. The northend of the wreck seems to be washing out a bit, exposing a bit more wreckage. The southside and interior seem to be about the same. Spades, mangroves, bluefish, scad, seargant majors, schooled the wreck. Damsels, blennies, butterflies, lizardfish, robinfish, flounder(Gulf and Occelated), filefish, trigger, southern and electric rays could be found around the debrifield. Dive lasted 69 min with a max depth of 17'. No sign of jellyfish on either dive.
Couldn't ask for better conditions on the surface or underwater(well, maybe less seaweed on some of our sites). Another great day of diving
