SuPrBuGmAn
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Paulwall, in his infinite wisdom(or dumb luck!), discovered a wreck while snorkeling in Fort Morgan earlier this week. He told me about it today after he was giving me the lowdown on his other dives from today. It immediately peaked my interest and I headed his way after work.
The wreck is in 16' of water and sits ~100 yards off the beach. There is about 3' of relief that looks to be composed mostly of pipes/outriggers(?) covered in nets. There is a shaft that ends in at a hub with spokes offshooting from it(possibly a paddlewheel?) as well as another shaft that runs to a propeller which is partially exposed. I started the dive with 1500 and made it last 43min before swimming back on the surface. I took 4 flounder off the wreck and saw a monster out there that was too skidish to let anyone near.
I need to get back one of these days to see if I can find it again and hopefully get some pics/video. I'm going to try to get some more info on this wreck to figure out what it is/was... Till then, I'm calling it Paul's Surfside Paddlewheeler
The wreck is in 16' of water and sits ~100 yards off the beach. There is about 3' of relief that looks to be composed mostly of pipes/outriggers(?) covered in nets. There is a shaft that ends in at a hub with spokes offshooting from it(possibly a paddlewheel?) as well as another shaft that runs to a propeller which is partially exposed. I started the dive with 1500 and made it last 43min before swimming back on the surface. I took 4 flounder off the wreck and saw a monster out there that was too skidish to let anyone near.
I need to get back one of these days to see if I can find it again and hopefully get some pics/video. I'm going to try to get some more info on this wreck to figure out what it is/was... Till then, I'm calling it Paul's Surfside Paddlewheeler