Please post your Oriskany Trip Reports Here

[Upstate Scuba OWI]

Divers who have to travel long distances to the Oriskany would like you guys and ladies to post your trip reports here so we can have first hand info on current conditions. By doing this searching "Oriskany Trip Reports" will make finding this thread easy. Hopefully the SB staff would consider this sticky worthy.

Please tell us:

Date:

Time of day:

Charter Boat Operator Used:

Surface Air Temp:

Water temp:

Sea Surface Conditions:
(Height of waves, and if they were rollers or choppy)

Special Marine Life seen:

Any other info:


All posting would be helpfull

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

The all inclusive thread could probably work for that just as well.

I don't see the need for multiple stickies for one site. *shrug*

 

[Upstate Scuba OWI]

The all inclusive thread could probably work for that just as well.

I don't see the need for multiple stickies for one site. *shrug*

I tried that but it but doesnt show up very easy when searching forums

 

[Upstate Scuba OWI]

Date: March 18th, 2010

Time of day: 10 am to 2 pm

Charter Boat Operator Used: MBT Divers and H2O Below Boat

Surface Air Temp: 64 Degrees

Water temp: 61 degrees on surface and 64 degrees on the wreck itself

Sea Surface Conditions: perfect 1 to 3 foot seas, and a nice spring day


Special Marine Life seen: Moi Moi Sunfish and Dolfins.

Any other info: Got to see the Navy Blue Angles as they practiced above us.

Video of the two dives are available on you tube

YouTube - U.S.S. Oriskany Dive 1 on March 18th, 2010


YouTube - USS Oriskany on 3-18-2010

 

[algulfdiver]

were you using a light when you took your videos?

 

[nolatom]

June of '06, used MBT and the MV Sea Scout with Capt Lloyd Oubre (believe he's working mostly ashore these days), the deck next to the island was only 137', went down and touched it, and came back up to 80' to wander around and thru the island swim-thrus. She was still a gray ship then, not as much marine life. Still, a pretty dive on a nice calm sunny day. But crowded, since the island is where all the mooring buoys lead to, so it concentrates the boats. this is really a wall dive for the rec-level diver. We went to the Chevron platforms nearby for the 2nd dive and had it all for ourselves.

Again in summer "09, now she's a brown ship with good growth, so zillions of bait-ball fish, and some good Goliath groupers in the cofferdams between island spaces. The ship is deeper now, settled in more from the hurricanes, now 145-7 to the deck, so I didn't try to go that deep. Used MBT again, with the MV H2O Below, good boat. Went down the forward part of the island, into the capt and admiral's bridge, just under 130'. Second dive, aft on the Air Boss bridge, at about 110'. Nice day, nice dives. But unless you're a tech diver, you won't spend any time on the flight deck, it's a wall dive on the island, so a much "smaller" dive site than her 900' length.

I think it's a "do it once every few years" dive, long trip out/back and you get only 2 dives a day. There are lots of farther-inshore dives to do, you can get 2 dives in half a day that way. Much to do in P'Cola too, air museum, beaches, good family town.