Okay, I figured you lot would be the ones to answer this.
I'm home in the US infrequently. Living overseas in Asia has it's benefits, I get to dive warm water, and exotic places like Anilao, Puerta Galera, Coron, Koh Lanta, Kenting, Sipadan, and Saipan to name a few, but each year I come home and wish I could find interesting places to dive relatively easy to get to with my limited time home (like a 2-3 day dive trip from western US - not counting travel days).
So, I read about Thunder Bay, see a really cool video on Highway 23. And I get to thinking, that might be the ticket. Obviously, it's luck of the draw for vis, but Shipwreck Alley looks like a great spot to spend 2-3 days.
Now, my problem is that yes, I do have a dry suit, I do dive SM and tec, but I haven't combined the two yet (since the dry suit is in the US and really, I'd die of heat exhaustion using it in Asia for the most part).
So, looking for pearls of wisdom here. Is the trip to Thunder Bay worthwhile? Of course, me being me, I'm not to proud to hire an instructor to spend a day or even two 'babysitting' to help me work out the kinks of driving my drysuit with my tec rig. I took right to SM, and to a drysuit when I learned them. So I'm not too worried, just figure if you can get professional help, why not, you enjoy the dives a ton more.
So, fire away, love to hear about it, I love wreck diving anyway, so seems like a good spot to get 2-3 dives a day for 2-3 days and see some good stuff.
TIA.
I'm home in the US infrequently. Living overseas in Asia has it's benefits, I get to dive warm water, and exotic places like Anilao, Puerta Galera, Coron, Koh Lanta, Kenting, Sipadan, and Saipan to name a few, but each year I come home and wish I could find interesting places to dive relatively easy to get to with my limited time home (like a 2-3 day dive trip from western US - not counting travel days).
So, I read about Thunder Bay, see a really cool video on Highway 23. And I get to thinking, that might be the ticket. Obviously, it's luck of the draw for vis, but Shipwreck Alley looks like a great spot to spend 2-3 days.
Now, my problem is that yes, I do have a dry suit, I do dive SM and tec, but I haven't combined the two yet (since the dry suit is in the US and really, I'd die of heat exhaustion using it in Asia for the most part).
So, looking for pearls of wisdom here. Is the trip to Thunder Bay worthwhile? Of course, me being me, I'm not to proud to hire an instructor to spend a day or even two 'babysitting' to help me work out the kinks of driving my drysuit with my tec rig. I took right to SM, and to a drysuit when I learned them. So I'm not too worried, just figure if you can get professional help, why not, you enjoy the dives a ton more.
So, fire away, love to hear about it, I love wreck diving anyway, so seems like a good spot to get 2-3 dives a day for 2-3 days and see some good stuff.
TIA.