FLTEKDIVER:
We just got back from 4 day's of diving the Groove in depth. After hour's of research on-line, I cannot find detailed deck plan's of the Groove. I live here in FL, and been diving her for quite some time. Only till this weekend, we did some very extensive in depth penetration on her, and my team is looking for some detailed deck plan's, so we can get down into or near the engine room, etc, any information would be help-full, thanks !
There is a project started by
Indiana University to produce a recreational dive map of the vessel. There have been numerous other posts on Scubaboard asking the same question and each thread yielded the same results. So I myself decided to go anal retentive on this item and just spent 3 hours on google, yahoo, and every florida site servicing the Spiegel Grove (be sure to spell Spiegel and not Spiegle or you will really be lost) - learned a ton, found fantastic pictures of the pre-sunk ship, and numerous videos, but no map/layout/or blueprints:
First original video is best -
http://www.glennpatton.com/Spiegel/UWvideo.htm
Others:
http://www.glennpatton.com/Spiegel/2003_UWvideo.htm
http://www.glennpatton.com/Spiegel/Jan_2004_UWvideo.htm
http://www.glennpatton.com/Spiegel/media/SpiegelGroveUprightFirstDive7-12.wmv (2005)
Not to hijack this thread but as side commentary on these videos - I was blown away by the stroke factor of the divers in this video. Among other things they hang on the wreck, drag equipment across the wreck, dive on single tank with air, no ean, no backup air sources of any kind, in a few parts of the videos no exposure protection, gauges dragging everywhere, no trim, no buoyancy control, fins and gloves hitting every wall and edge. And the comments are hilarious. Like at one point the lead diver admits to using brand new unchecked equipment, for the first time, in the ocean, on a world-class wreck at 100 feet! He claims to have tried to use
gel toothpaste to clean the manufacturers residue before the dive and it didn't work to prevent fogging - imagine that (you must use grit-based paste, the scrubbing is what removes the film).
They penetrate the wreck over and over, never using lines, in most cases without dive lights or nearly zero ambient light, and the coup de grace is several times in the video when the videographer "asks" if his subjects are Ok they give a big
thumbs up <omg quick END THE DIVE!>. Shesh.
