SuPrBuGmAn
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Had alot of fun in Huntsville this weekend. After working in New Orleans Wednesday and Thursday I met up with my friends back home(Robertsdale, AL) and we headed to Tuscalosa to meet up with some buddies and went to a handfull of bars before crashing. The next morning we headed up to Madison to get in a dive or two before the quarry closed.
We managed one 45+ min dive before having to pack our gear up and vacate. The dive was fun lots of junk has been sunk on-site for you to discover/explore(most of it had a bouy on the surface to locate). Lots of large catfish, coi, carp, striped bass(?), freshwater jellyfish, and nice sized bream as well. That day we found some boats, the F4, the S10 w/trailer, some fuel cells, the ever-popular minuteman rocket, and the bridge. Visibility was about 10-15' in the areas we swam around and I think we were the only divers onsite(there were some sunbathers/swimmers). Finishing up we headed to Huntsville for food and found a couple of bars before heading back to Rock Divers to set-up tent and crash out again. Bright and early the next morning we had our camping gear packed up and signed in for our next day for the opening at 8am. There were already more than a half-dozen cars in the lot and more on the way.
Visibility on the 2 dives we made Saturday ranged from 5-20' depending on location. We visited the house boat, several fishing boats, a cabin cruiser(Roy), the school bus, some 'V' shaped deal, and more fuel cells before resurfacing and swimming back to the dive platform. 2nd dive brought us to a piece of the space station, the rock crusher, F4 phantom again, more fishing boats, another long fuel cell, the 'V' shaped thingy again, and the fire engine.
By the end of the 2nd dive it was storming so we didn't do a 3rd and opted to pack up and go back home. All in all we had a blast. There is still more we'd like to see and will be back up there eventually to see what else we can get into.
I have about 20 pics from the dives @ http://www.suprbugman.com/gallery/album12 notice the "Dive Wagon". 4 people + 6 tanks + 4 dive bags + 4 clothes bags + 4 sleeping bags + 4 chairs + 2 tents = not much room in a 4 door civic hatch
Met Ed(divemasterTDI) as he floated his own personal little island over to the front dive platform. Looks like they had quite a turn out for their BBQ but by the end of our 2nd dive we could see their tents flying around from the wind - LOL. We'll probably go visit SammyTs next time.
Here's the pic I promised you Ed http://www.suprbugman.com/albums/album13/Picture_017.sized.jpg.
We managed one 45+ min dive before having to pack our gear up and vacate. The dive was fun lots of junk has been sunk on-site for you to discover/explore(most of it had a bouy on the surface to locate). Lots of large catfish, coi, carp, striped bass(?), freshwater jellyfish, and nice sized bream as well. That day we found some boats, the F4, the S10 w/trailer, some fuel cells, the ever-popular minuteman rocket, and the bridge. Visibility was about 10-15' in the areas we swam around and I think we were the only divers onsite(there were some sunbathers/swimmers). Finishing up we headed to Huntsville for food and found a couple of bars before heading back to Rock Divers to set-up tent and crash out again. Bright and early the next morning we had our camping gear packed up and signed in for our next day for the opening at 8am. There were already more than a half-dozen cars in the lot and more on the way.
Visibility on the 2 dives we made Saturday ranged from 5-20' depending on location. We visited the house boat, several fishing boats, a cabin cruiser(Roy), the school bus, some 'V' shaped deal, and more fuel cells before resurfacing and swimming back to the dive platform. 2nd dive brought us to a piece of the space station, the rock crusher, F4 phantom again, more fishing boats, another long fuel cell, the 'V' shaped thingy again, and the fire engine.
By the end of the 2nd dive it was storming so we didn't do a 3rd and opted to pack up and go back home. All in all we had a blast. There is still more we'd like to see and will be back up there eventually to see what else we can get into.
I have about 20 pics from the dives @ http://www.suprbugman.com/gallery/album12 notice the "Dive Wagon". 4 people + 6 tanks + 4 dive bags + 4 clothes bags + 4 sleeping bags + 4 chairs + 2 tents = not much room in a 4 door civic hatch
Met Ed(divemasterTDI) as he floated his own personal little island over to the front dive platform. Looks like they had quite a turn out for their BBQ but by the end of our 2nd dive we could see their tents flying around from the wind - LOL. We'll probably go visit SammyTs next time.
Here's the pic I promised you Ed
http://www.suprbugman.com/albums/album13/Picture_017.sized.jpg.
