Soggy
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There is a remote possibility that I may relocate myself to the Myrtle Beach, SC area. I'm just wondering what kind of diving is available in the immediate area.
SC Diving?
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A. J. Shark
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Hey, I'm moving to that area in August!! I also would like to know where to dive. Any thoughts would be helpful.
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Scubamedicjoe
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one spot is coastal scuba out of myrtle beach
http://www.coastalscuba.com/
another is low country scuba
http://www.islc.net/~bayne/home.html
http://www.coastalscuba.com/
another is low country scuba
http://www.islc.net/~bayne/home.html
crawford
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When I think S.C. diving, there's two big types of diving that stand out:
1) Wreck
Have dove with Coastal Scuba in N. Myrtle Beach. Good outfit. Their divemaster on my trip said the 18 Fathoms was his personal favorite. It's at 130 fsw or thereabouts, so you need Nitrox to spend more than 15-20 minutes on the bottom (after a couple to three hours boat ride). If that's a little deeper than you've gone, I've heard the Hebe and St. Cathan are good wrecks. Both WWII vintage. The City of Houston is commonly dove by Coastal, and is not intact, but one of the best artifact wrecks around. The ship was loaded with Christmas goods when it went down.
2) River
Cooper River , that is. Get on the net do a search on this, very dark, but shallow fossil/artifact hunting. People continue to bring in an almost inexhaustable supply of megalodon teeth, old bottles, arrowheads, and misc. fossils. I haven't dove it yet, but every dive shop I go to in S.C. seems to have a display case showing these teeth.
I plan to dive with Coastal a couple times this summer, let me know if you plan to go, maybe we can make the same trip.
1) Wreck
Have dove with Coastal Scuba in N. Myrtle Beach. Good outfit. Their divemaster on my trip said the 18 Fathoms was his personal favorite. It's at 130 fsw or thereabouts, so you need Nitrox to spend more than 15-20 minutes on the bottom (after a couple to three hours boat ride). If that's a little deeper than you've gone, I've heard the Hebe and St. Cathan are good wrecks. Both WWII vintage. The City of Houston is commonly dove by Coastal, and is not intact, but one of the best artifact wrecks around. The ship was loaded with Christmas goods when it went down.
2) River
Cooper River , that is. Get on the net do a search on this, very dark, but shallow fossil/artifact hunting. People continue to bring in an almost inexhaustable supply of megalodon teeth, old bottles, arrowheads, and misc. fossils. I haven't dove it yet, but every dive shop I go to in S.C. seems to have a display case showing these teeth.
I plan to dive with Coastal a couple times this summer, let me know if you plan to go, maybe we can make the same trip.
andrea31419
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Check out www.charlestondiving.com good source for diving S.C. Lowcountryscuba.com is another good source...Seajay is always on this board somewhere, I surprised he hasn't replied yet.
Andrea
Savannah, Ga.
Andrea
Savannah, Ga.
SCDiver
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Hello, I am from Charleston SC. We travel up to the myrtle beach area quite a bit to go out on charters with the LDS up there. Crawford has already mentioned coastal scuba, they are probably the best outfit up there, but there is another really small one we go out on as well out of Murrell's Inlet called Scuba Express. http://www.expresswatersports.com
It is about a 30' foot boat, and can hold about 12 divers, and its rigged with FA and DAN O2 kits. Awesome crew as well!!!!
FYI
It is about a 30' foot boat, and can hold about 12 divers, and its rigged with FA and DAN O2 kits. Awesome crew as well!!!!
FYI
VaScubaGirl
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I dove with Coastal Scuba this past weekend. It was a nice outfit. The captain (Buddy) was an absolute hoot, and dropped us right on top of the wrecks everytime, which was good since the visibility was really crummy. The mates were great and were very knowledgeable about the wrecks and their history. The boat held about 25 divers, but with 16 of us, I was wondering how they would fit 25 divers and all their gear on there as we were pretty packed. You can't take your own coolers, but they had two large coolers that you could use. We dove the Princess Royale...aka the Sherman (civil war wreck), Baracuda Alley (barge with lines you could follow out to APV or a pile of concrete), and the BP25 (oil tanker). The wrecks were ok, two of us found porcelain civil war buttons on the Sherman which was cool. But the reefs are not as well developed and there was not as much sea life as what I was used to off of NC. The visibility was so so (20 feet at best, 4 at worst) but I am sure that is because of Isabel coming through and that the viz is probably much better under better weather conditions. BradfordNC was there too...watch out though...he likes to scare you underwater!
Accomodations were fantastic. We stayed at the Waverly Landing Condos (time share that you can rent out through a rental office) and they were EXTREMLY nice...two bedrooms, two baths, kitchen, washer and dryer, and a screened in porch. The owners even let us come back after our Sunday dives and take showers/do laundry...this was great since we would be going home to no electricity and no water compliments of Isy!
We ate at Outriggers the first night and it was good...the crab cakes were excellent! The second night, we went to Crab Catchers (Buddy the captain recommended it). It's a local hangout right on the water. The meals were very reasonably proced, but don't be in a hurry. The food is cooked to order, everything is fresh, and it was well worth the wait. Steamed crabs were to die for! Just whatever you do, don't park in the casino's parking lot (it's a floating casino where they take you out to international waters to gamble) or the mean crotchy old lady comes to threaten to tow your car (even though there are no signs posted) and even when the driver dropped the rest of us out and went down the street to park, she drove after us and told us to get off the property...apparently we weren;t even allowed to WALK through the parking lot! Give that woman a broom!
Guess this turned into a trip report! Sorry it was so long!
Accomodations were fantastic. We stayed at the Waverly Landing Condos (time share that you can rent out through a rental office) and they were EXTREMLY nice...two bedrooms, two baths, kitchen, washer and dryer, and a screened in porch. The owners even let us come back after our Sunday dives and take showers/do laundry...this was great since we would be going home to no electricity and no water compliments of Isy!
We ate at Outriggers the first night and it was good...the crab cakes were excellent! The second night, we went to Crab Catchers (Buddy the captain recommended it). It's a local hangout right on the water. The meals were very reasonably proced, but don't be in a hurry. The food is cooked to order, everything is fresh, and it was well worth the wait. Steamed crabs were to die for! Just whatever you do, don't park in the casino's parking lot (it's a floating casino where they take you out to international waters to gamble) or the mean crotchy old lady comes to threaten to tow your car (even though there are no signs posted) and even when the driver dropped the rest of us out and went down the street to park, she drove after us and told us to get off the property...apparently we weren;t even allowed to WALK through the parking lot! Give that woman a broom!
Guess this turned into a trip report! Sorry it was so long!
BradfordNC
Contributor
WHAT???
it was just your fins, and it didn't seem like you were using them.
lol, and you were worried about the barracuda, lol
ut:Scubamedicjoe
Contributor
hey now that I got the cast off,
I am ready to hit the water again .
I am looking for some one to go diving in next few weeks either in nc or sc anyone might be interested let me know .
I am ready to hit the water again .
I am looking for some one to go diving in next few weeks either in nc or sc anyone might be interested let me know .
VaScubaGirl
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BradfordNC once bubbled...
WHAT???
it was just your fins, and it didn't seem like you were using them.
lol, and you were worried about the barracuda, lol
Hey...it was like 3-4' viz and I am putting along minding my own business peeking through this concrete cylinder when you yanked my fins! Barracuda don't scare me a bit, but you on the other hand...lol
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