Victoria Vis conditions?

[Divegoose]

Dove at Dolphin today on a high slack. We estimated the vis at 50 - 75 feet, getting better as we went deeper. :d

No cuurent and no wind. Even hit the exit point dead on :cool3: One of the best dives I have ever done at Dolphin.

Divegoose

 

[aaen]

Dove Finn Beach to Clark rock today in Nanaimo just about 120mins round trip with a few stops at my favorite pinnacles. Well I'm almost to Clark rock, guessing 200m's shy. I'm having a wee by of trouble hooking the end of pipers to Clark rock damn sonar scan shows a wall, it's obviously wrong or it's deeper then 80 feet. Anyways I'll get it tied together here before I go back to work.

Oh yeah vis was amazing, roughly 40-50 feet, I even had my seal buddy come back and visit me on this trip. This time I have it on video on the GoPro, sadly it was just a swim by with a smile from him and a wave from me. Like two ships passing in the dark.


Regards

Steve

 

[MarkH]

40-50' on the deeper wall at Madrona Point up past Nanaimo today. Even in the shallows, visibility was 30-40'.

 

[aaen]

And here I am in Vancouver getting ready for meetings in the morning. You guys keep the vis reports coming in. I'm dry docked at least until December with work and the drysuit heading in for servicing!!


Regards

Steve

 

[Divegoose]

40 to 50 foot visibility at Madrona this morning.

Divegoose

 

[aaen]

Nice. Jealous.


Regards

Steve

 

[MarkH]

Not very good at 10-Mile Pt. today. On my first dive at about noon, visibility was an ok 20'. On a second dive at around 1:30, I could barely see 6'. Down on the wall, it improved slightly to about 15', but it was dark.

---------- Post added November 13th, 2015 at 06:21 PM ----------

By the way, I just read that Victoria has issued a swimming warning for the area between Esquimalt and 10-Mile Point due to sewer overflows because of the rain. This warning is supposed to last until Sunday. The current had changed to a flood before my second dive so the bad visibility was probably all this freshwater runoff overflowing out of the Greater Victoria sewage system along the coast.

 

[Divegoose]

50 plus at Tyee today. Even better as you got deeper. Didn't even have to use the compass


Divegoose

 

[MarkH]

20-30' at the end of the Ogden Point breakwater today.

 

[MarkH]

A pretty average 6-10' at Spring Bay today.