Shark diving on long weekend anyone?

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CAPTAIN SINBAD

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Guys: Anyone interested in joining me for an extended weekend of shark diving in NC? Feb 16,17 and 18 is the long weekend and I wanted to take my DSLR to Morehead city and do some shark photography. There are charters already available for Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 but if we can have 4 more people, we can run our own charter on Monday.

If anyone is interested, let me know.

Regards -

Sinbad
 
I will be diving with Discovery. If you can join me it would be fun. This time of the season there are so few boats and so few people that the skipper can take you wherever you want. I dove with them a few months ago and there were only 4 people on the boat. We asked Leroy to take us to the sharkiest wrecks and he dropped us on Caribsea. This is what was down there ...

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I could do Saturday and/or Sunday. Been trying to make a run down there for the last few weeks, but it never works out. Usually go with Olympus, but I wouldn't mind trying Discovery.

---------- Post added February 5th, 2013 at 08:52 PM ----------

Are there many sharks to be seen this time of year?
 
Sharks are more plentiful as the season progresses and the water warms. Should be some this time of year, but not the huge numbers we see late in the year.
Main species is Sand Tigers - fairly calm slow moving sharks (that's the impression they like to give their prey!), more active and feeding at night, tend to hang around on the wreck. Occasionally get to see Dusky and Sandbar sharks - quicker and tend to move through an area fairly quickly. Have heard divers tell of encounters with Tigers, and late in the year Great Whites move through on their way back north - very rare to see these!
 
I could do Saturday and/or Sunday. Been trying to make a run down there for the last few weeks, but it never works out. Usually go with Olympus, but I wouldn't mind trying Discovery.

---------- Post added February 5th, 2013 at 08:52 PM ----------

Are there many sharks to be seen this time of year?

Sunday looks good for me too. They are there all the time but winter months offer less crowded dives, and more relaxed schedule. They will take the boats wherever you want them to take the boat. We can do a three tank dive on Sunday if you want.
 
I'm trying to get a group together to dive 9/10 March with Olympus in MHC if February doesn't work for you. Need about 10 divers to make sure the Olympus can run. I can probably find a total of 6-7.
 
Sunday should work well for me. Are diving dry? I called today to make sure they were going to be rebreather friendly so I may drag it along.
 
Sunday should work well for me. Are diving dry? I called today to make sure they were going to be rebreather friendly so I may drag it along.

Ill be dry. They are saying temp would be 55 - 65 range so drysuit would work.
 
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