Miss D,
Sadly many boaters and some captains can't tell which wreck they are on, due to their close proximity.
Hitting all 3 on a single wreck-trek dive is very cool, especially for divers on repeat visits to the Pinellas #2 Reef.
Other than the Sheridan, Mexican Pride and Long Island, I believe no other wrecks in the greater Tampa Bay area have more structure than the Blackthorn. The Orange Tug and Fin Barge are not taller and only the latter of the two is longer. The Anclote Tug is about the same size with similar relief as the Blackthorn, although upside-down.
I hope your spearfishing is fruitful!
Chad
Thanks Chad,
Agree with YOU 100 %
First time I did a Dive on the BT it was Bad vis and I was on the wrong section. That was the year it went down. (tells you how old I am!!) Because it looked so Bad I never went back again until Thrusday and I was Glad I did. I have WELL over 5,000 dives in the Gulf including many cool wrecks in the Grounds and other places but that was a pretty dive Thrusday. The little swim thru in the Wreck was not like the pretty swim thru in Fiji but then I did not spend a $ 1.000 getting their or 18 hours in a plane either.
Very pretty dive. Told everyone for 30 years it Sucked.... Know better now!!!!!!.
Took a charter of 10 divers out today. Great day. Top to bottom on Veterns.
I was so happy. This had been the Worst year in OVER 30 years as far as weather.
Spoke to Dr. Hayward Matthews this A.M. and he said the same. ( the guy who started all the Artifical reefs)
Great day of diving today.
Sucked for me... The Captain can NOT leave the Deck... even to save someone from drowning.
Heard of a lost diver South of here Today on the Radio.
It has been 10 years since I been on the Tarpon Tug. It used to be really pretty dive about sunset. Last time I was there we hit it about sunset on the way in from off shore and shot a 75 pound A.J.
I want to take my wife up there to dive it. What does it look like today. Thinking of taking her off shore for 3 days for the mini season and hitting some of my old lobster spots off Tarpon.
Have some Killer grouper spots about a mile south of the tug. Little 1 foot breaks that are loaded with 20 pound gags in the summer. Always shot about 200 pounds a day there.
Capt. Mike