TNTdive
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Super Dive Weekend kicked off and I took advantage of the 1/2 off dives on the Miss Lindsey. Scott met us at the shop at 0700 and we loaded the trailer and off we went. Becky was the Captain and the crew was ready to to show off the improvements on the Miss Lindsey. I have not dove off the Lindsey before, but I will say that it was a very nice boat. There were only six divers, so PLENTY OF ROOM! The boat was clean, the compressor was gone (others told me there had been a fill station onboard) and that left a lot of room.
Off we headed with high spirits knowing that instead of being at work on this Friday we were going diving. We were headed to the Gulf Hustler. Beautiful skies waves 1-2 feet (max). On the way out one of the engines (two engines on the Lindsey) developed problems and had to be shut down. The crew still wanted to let us dive, so they changed the site to the Santore.
We got to the Santore and splashed at 12:54. No one else was to be seen. There was one heck of a surface current. My buddy jumped in and quickly started seeing the boat get smaller. Kicking in his afterburners he got back to the hang line. Seeing this I jumped in and got to the line quickly. We waited a couple of minutes for him to catch his breath and then we were off. Bob had run his wreck reel for us. On the bottom there was no real current. We followed the line and got to see a ray. Leaning against the wreck was a deep sea fishing rod (some poor fisherman I am sure had a few choice words when that happened). Visibility was about 15 feet and temp was 46 degrees, max depth 57 feet.
We went up for our surface interval and had some famous Lindsey Dogs and fresh fruit. There was more than enough to go around several times. After a hour and a half, we splashed again. This time the current was minor and we were ready. Deciding that we had seen everything along Bob's wreck line, we ventured off the line some. We were rewarded with seeing a lot more of the wreck and another ray. Downside was that I had opted not to bring my wreck reel and was doing natural navigation (which seemed good based on the reference points). When we hit our air limit we started heading back to the anchor line. Vis had gone down a little bit. We got back to the basic area and started our ascent. When we hit 19 feet we got the anchor line and followed it up.
It was a great day of diving and the crew did a good job. When we got back, they cancelled the night dive, so they could get into the engine. I hope that they got the engine fixed so they could take everyone out today!
TNT
Off we headed with high spirits knowing that instead of being at work on this Friday we were going diving. We were headed to the Gulf Hustler. Beautiful skies waves 1-2 feet (max). On the way out one of the engines (two engines on the Lindsey) developed problems and had to be shut down. The crew still wanted to let us dive, so they changed the site to the Santore.
We got to the Santore and splashed at 12:54. No one else was to be seen. There was one heck of a surface current. My buddy jumped in and quickly started seeing the boat get smaller. Kicking in his afterburners he got back to the hang line. Seeing this I jumped in and got to the line quickly. We waited a couple of minutes for him to catch his breath and then we were off. Bob had run his wreck reel for us. On the bottom there was no real current. We followed the line and got to see a ray. Leaning against the wreck was a deep sea fishing rod (some poor fisherman I am sure had a few choice words when that happened). Visibility was about 15 feet and temp was 46 degrees, max depth 57 feet.
We went up for our surface interval and had some famous Lindsey Dogs and fresh fruit. There was more than enough to go around several times. After a hour and a half, we splashed again. This time the current was minor and we were ready. Deciding that we had seen everything along Bob's wreck line, we ventured off the line some. We were rewarded with seeing a lot more of the wreck and another ray. Downside was that I had opted not to bring my wreck reel and was doing natural navigation (which seemed good based on the reference points). When we hit our air limit we started heading back to the anchor line. Vis had gone down a little bit. We got back to the basic area and started our ascent. When we hit 19 feet we got the anchor line and followed it up.
It was a great day of diving and the crew did a good job. When we got back, they cancelled the night dive, so they could get into the engine. I hope that they got the engine fixed so they could take everyone out today!
TNT
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