and the creaking and groaning?I found the source of that banging, an open gate on the port side of the superstructure.
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and the creaking and groaning?I found the source of that banging, an open gate on the port side of the superstructure.
and the creaking and groaning?
and the creaking and groaning?
Dark and snotty...sounds like CA. 84ish....not so much. Your pics make bad viz look crystalline.My knee had been acting up for a while there, so it was either the wreck splitting or my knee.
We snuck out today to try to squeeze a dive in before the big waves came... vis was about 35' with a dark layer about 3 feet thick of 3 foot viz on top. Water temp was warm.. 84ish. The seas were pretty flat when we left, but by the time we headed in, it was starting to get snotty.
Between that layer and the lack of sun due to clouds it was pretty dern dark down there. I think I took four pictures total. If any came out I'll throw them up tonight when I get home.
Quick... everybody join me in the good viz dance!!!
I just got back from the reef and here's the low down:
Viz was horrible, 10-15', and there was a moderate surge from about a 6' groundswell. Water temp was 83º up top, 84º down below. Slight south current. The dives were actually pretty good, despite the murk due to a very high density of life including three loggerheads and a very curious requiem shark of some sort, about 4' long. Maybe a baby bull, but it's so hard for me to tell them apart when they're that size, who knows. It circled each of us about 6' out, I think it was seeing if we would flush anything tasty out from the ledge, and at one point it almost swan right into me. The reason that we were graced with this encounter was that, of course, I had elected to leave the camera behind, in favor of a lobster snare. There were zero lobsters spotted all day. I did take the camera on the second dive, and I'll put anything interesting up once I get home tonight.
The swell is supposed to die off throughout the day, and be only slight tomorrow, so vis should improve dramatically by then.
Uh-huh Kevin, likely story. A shark encounter with no camera around. We all know how the fishing stories go... it was "T H I S B I G!" *holding arms out as far as they'll go* same with diving...