Underwater smell off Windy Point

[Texas Torpedo]

This may be a bit odd, but has anyone else "smelled" anything below 50ffw off Windy Point? When my buddy and I got down there it smelled horrible.. Like something rotting or decaying. I've never really experienced anything like that before. This was the Wednesday before last on the 12th.

Viz was the worst I had seen it there, but it started raining and blowing really hard right before we arrived.

 

[ianr33]

This may be a bit odd, but has anyone else "smelled" anything below 50ffw off Windy Point? When my buddy and I got down there it smelled horrible.. Like something rotting or decaying. I've never really experienced anything like that before. This was the Wednesday before last on the 12th.

Its hydrogen sulfide. I find I taste it rather than smell it.
Once the thermocline is established there is no turnover of the water .After several weeks/months all the dissolved oxygen has been used up and stuff decomposes anaerobically. That produces hydrogen sulfide in the reducing environment.

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is seriously poisonous but fortunately is at very low levels,even though it tastes nasty.

(last 2 posts are off topic for this thread. Maybe a mod could make them a new thread??