Table Rock Video

[SteveC]

Nagel
I knew you couldn't resist a Table Rock video!
We were thinking about going to Rolla tomorrow, but the weather looks better at Mermet, so we are going to run down for a day trip. I hoping next weekend we can do Haigh. Keep and eye out for the weather.
Did you get your 7mm yet?

Steve

 

[nagel]

SteveC -
Still waiting on the 7mm. Scubatoys had to order it in - it's in the mail as we speak. If you get this in time and if you can remember, see if you can get a few videos and maybe some brochures from Mermet. My LDS would really appreciate the information.

Have fun, wish I was going with you, but it looks like will be fighting with a new garage door most of the day.

S. Nagel

 

[cummings66]

I think Zebra mussels have good and bad points. The vis gets better of course but at the expense of them covering everything in sight and causing problems.

A regular mussel is fair at cleaning the water up, but they're not as active and thus not as many of them. Their numbers being lower mean they don't clean the water as well. The more mussels there are the better the vis will be.

In the end that's what I was getting at, don't kill the mussels because they benefit us. The more of them there are the better our vis will be. As the others have said I too don't belive there are any Zebra Mussels in Tablerock lake.

 

[cummings66]

Nice vid. Thanks for posting it up.

I keep trying to tell myself that the water isn't really that green. Just goes to show how green it really can be on video or stills. I'm still messing with my Canon PSA80 to get the manual settings down before spring so I can toy with it a bit more to refine the quality of the pics.

Use your white slate to adjust the white balance at the depth you're at. The colors will then be much better. I use an A620 and get decent pics there without the green tint, which I do see while diving. I just do the manual adjustment and then take a picture.

 

[SteveC]

This is the question every diver should ask him self.
Would you rather see a wreck with muscles on it or not see a wreck without them?

 

[diverdown247]

Use your white slate to adjust the white balance at the depth you're at. The colors will then be much better. I use an A620 and get decent pics there without the green tint, which I do see while diving. I just do the manual adjustment and then take a picture.

Great tip, thanks!

 

[fire_diver]

Great video, but next time, duct-tape a light to the camera housing. It was hard to tell what the vis was like, some spots seemed really good, others seemed bad.

My current surface interval is 27 hours, and I'm getting antsy to get wet again. I think I may sneek out to Tenkiller again next weekend (27-28 I think).

FD

 

[Nemrod]

Has anyone ever felt any current in Table Rock? I could almost swear there was a current last time I was there near Jake's Point Island as I dropped down the slope from the cruiser. Around 90ish feet I am pretty sure I felt a current. Could this be because the lake was turning?

Video lights are problematic, they tend to reflect off all of the debris in the water, especially when there is so much of it being stirred up as in this video, again,probably as a result of the lake turning. N

 

[regul8r]

Well most lakes are the result of a river being damed up.. perhaps you are feeling the river current if they have the flood gates open some
Course I have never dived in Table Rock so I don't know where you are talking about.. Just thinking of what it might be

 

[cummings66]

I have felt and seen minor current there. I found on the bottom a woman's hair band and stuck it upright on the bottom on a rock. I noticed it swaying back and forth with the current.

You have to consider that even though it's a dammed up lake, it's a big lake. Anytime a lake can get 2 foot swells without a boat causing it there's bound to be some sort of current there however minor.

I've never noticed a constant current headed one way however, it's more back and forth and easily seen by observation of plant life or foreign objects.