the dunderburg - yay!!!

[Nitrox Junkie]

I hope the pictures upload this time.

Jeff "Great lakes diver"

 

[diver_paula]

I saw on his website that trips the last two weekends (including this weekend) have been cancelled due to "engine repairs".

When is the boat going to back in action?

I had charters planned with Gary Venet the past two weekends that were cancelled due to the boat engine. & then our re-scheduled charter with Gary Bineicki (sp?) was cancelled on Sunday due to water conditions.

Venet sent an email out earlier this week saying his boat was back up and running.

 

[Nitrox Junkie]

DP,

That is not good news. I am sorry to hear that you were unable to dive. I guess I have been lucky. When we went in June to the Dunderberg we could not have asked for better weather on Lake Huron. Unfortunately these things happen on the Great Lakes.
We are heading to the Morrell next weekend and I cross my fingers that Mother Nature is on out side for that one. As you may know, the Morrell is outside the preserve and very unprotected.

Keep your chin up!

Jeff "Great lakes diver"

 

[IndyScott]

I'm going out with Gary venet next Friday (the 28th) to the dunderburg. its going to be my first time hitting it and I'm pumped. I'm diving it with my lp108 (no doubles ...) and gonna deco with some 40% so i only have about 15 minutes of bottom time since i don't want to get in to any heavy deco obligation. i know I'm going to see the figurehead - duh. anyone have any suggestions on where else to go? i talked to a couple people who said if the viz is good, its fun to swim off to the side about 40 feet and you can see a lot of the wreck. id rather get right in there though and see as much as i can. any suggestions? anyone here going then too?

I would recommend training to go that deep and also redundant h-valve with a pony bottle. We I dove with Jeff I had double lp121 with a al80 for my pony and he had a al80 for a pony too. You can get into serious trouble fast at those depth and if you don't have the right training and or equip It could cost you your life.

Just my 2 cents
Scott

 

[jrockosaurus]

just got back in town from the trip - it was freaking awesome and i only saw about 10% of the wreck. i don't know what the fuss is about this being a tech dive, most of the dive is at around 125', my deepest was 135' i think. i wouldn't say its a beginner dive but it was pretty straightforward. its so intact its impossible to get lost and the viz is incredible. penetrating would take you 10-15 feet deeper but theres a ton to see on the deck. i stuck around the bow for the most part and got in to some light deco but nothing like i was planning on. someone said they read 42 on the bottom but i thought it felt warmer than that. <--- this is me while they are still mooring to these beautiful wrecks instead of using an anchor and a guide line. start telling this to the captains on your charters and maybe we can get some people to change this. anyways, two thumbs way up! cant wait to get back out and see some more of her

 

[jrockosaurus]

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[jrockosaurus]

I would recommend training to go that deep and also redundant h-valve with a pony bottle. We I dove with Jeff I had double lp121 with a al80 for my pony and he had a al80 for a pony too. You can get into serious trouble fast at those depth and if you don't have the right training and or equip It could cost you your life.

Just my 2 cents
Scott

imo - redundancy takes all the excitement out of diving

 

[jrockosaurus]

apparently the problem with garys boat was a bad set of heads. i guess when he called the dealer to tell them about the problem, they said "oh yeah, weve known about that for a few years". they never put out any comsumer alert or recall. nice company, eh? hes back up and running though and booked up for the rest of the weekend

 

[diverbrian]

I'm glad to hear that you had a great dive. The catch on the mooring is this. In Canada, they sink a mooring block and tie a guideline to the wreck from there. In Lake Champlain this is done as well. This is an expensive proposition and the charter ops really don't have the money for it. Anchoring off of the wreck and using a guideline is impractical as if the current catches the anchor or the boat wrong, the anchor is going to drop into the wreck. Another issue is that the person running the guideline can't find the wreck because the boat got pushed too far away from it (Raises hand over the St. Peter incident that his dive buddy wasn't overly happy about ). So, the compromise is to run the mooring line directly to the wreck.

Redundancy is cool (and required) when you dive deeper stuff like the Morrell. If you want to go down to the crow's nest on the wreck that you just left, you are at 145-150 ft. That is really pushing into a "technical" dive. That redundancy also allowed me a 25 minute bottom time on the wreck .

 

[bladephotog]

just got back in town from the trip - it was freaking awesome and i only saw about 10% of the wreck. i don't know what the fuss is about this being a tech dive, most of the dive is at around 125', my deepest was 135' i think. i wouldn't say its a beginner dive but it was pretty straightforward. its so intact its impossible to get lost and the viz is incredible. penetrating would take you 10-15 feet deeper but theres a ton to see on the deck. i stuck around the bow for the most part and got in to some light deco but nothing like i was planning on. someone said they read 42 on the bottom but i thought it felt warmer than that. <--- this is me while they are still mooring to these beautiful wrecks instead of using an anchor and a guide line. start telling this to the captains on your charters and maybe we can get some people to change this. anyways, two thumbs way up! cant wait to get back out and see some more of her

By doing it as a tech dive you will see more than 10% of it.