RickI
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Went scooter free diving on the Vandenberg yesterday. The dropped it in 140 ft. off water about 7 miles south of Key West on Wednesday. Wore a Go Pro camera in a chest harness shooting stills every 2 s and hand held a camera for video. I wanted to catch it shortly after sinking before the algae covered all the white surfaces up. I still remember a Stephen Frink shot of the Duane off Key Largo in clear blue water just after sinking. White on blue! Just put up a short video clip pending processing all this stuff into a video:
Scooter Free Diving The Vandenberg, KW, FL 5.31.09 on Vimeo
[vimeo]4944629[/vimeo]
Here are a few stills as well:
Viz. was about 50 to 60 ft. I think the cameras saw further than I could in some cases
The bow has a surreal aspect to it. Passed a couple of divers holding a Conch Republic flag up after of this point. There was about 1.5 mph current running north. With the scooter on high power you could motor fairly easily into it. On downwind turns you went flying though! Covered about half the wreck on one dive.
Both radar dishes were dislodged by hydraulic forces during sinking. They've been cabled in place to pad eyes on the deck to secure them for the time being
Coming up from the bottom, looking way up the side and to the sun.
Nice session, lots more to come
Scooter Free Diving The Vandenberg, KW, FL 5.31.09 on Vimeo
[vimeo]4944629[/vimeo]
Here are a few stills as well:
Viz. was about 50 to 60 ft. I think the cameras saw further than I could in some cases
The bow has a surreal aspect to it. Passed a couple of divers holding a Conch Republic flag up after of this point. There was about 1.5 mph current running north. With the scooter on high power you could motor fairly easily into it. On downwind turns you went flying though! Covered about half the wreck on one dive.
Both radar dishes were dislodged by hydraulic forces during sinking. They've been cabled in place to pad eyes on the deck to secure them for the time being
Coming up from the bottom, looking way up the side and to the sun.
Nice session, lots more to come
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