I've never seen anyone getting green hair from Blue Lagoon, but I've heard that about Athens Scuba park. The PH in BL is high so I do wash my gear off extra well afterwards. It's barren, no plants or life except a few little critters, but the water is usually clearer than TL. It's nothing to write home about but a good place for gear checkout and skills practice. There are some sunken boats to putter around. Max depth around 28'. Surface Interval just had an event there April 1/2 and I know Alan was there.
The new place is Mammoth Lake, to be operated by Hyrdosports Scuba in Clute, down near Freeport. CHUM visited the site last Sunday and had a nice BBQ picnic at about 50' (on the future lakebed), you can read our impressions and see photos in the gallery. If the viz is as good as hoped for, it will be the premier dive site in this area and a great alternative for the FG trips that get blown out. There will be a ton of neat objects there (fighter plane, mock shuttle parts, numerous boats, former Astroworld stuff, maybe even a sub. Some areas are expected to be up to 80' deep. It is (as far as I know) the first scuba park designed from the ground up, literally before it has water in it. It is still a commercial sandpit operation and only has water in a few small places. They will turn off the pumps at the end of this year and it will fill from groundwater, and should be open for summer 2007.
The new place is Mammoth Lake, to be operated by Hyrdosports Scuba in Clute, down near Freeport. CHUM visited the site last Sunday and had a nice BBQ picnic at about 50' (on the future lakebed), you can read our impressions and see photos in the gallery. If the viz is as good as hoped for, it will be the premier dive site in this area and a great alternative for the FG trips that get blown out. There will be a ton of neat objects there (fighter plane, mock shuttle parts, numerous boats, former Astroworld stuff, maybe even a sub. Some areas are expected to be up to 80' deep. It is (as far as I know) the first scuba park designed from the ground up, literally before it has water in it. It is still a commercial sandpit operation and only has water in a few small places. They will turn off the pumps at the end of this year and it will fill from groundwater, and should be open for summer 2007.
