Video: Hopkins Deep and Shale Ledge Jan 30, 2011

[Chuck Tribolet]

Someone once said "Shale Island is essentially Breakwater Deep." It's one of those sites you tend to only visit when conditions are bad everywhere else. I think it'd be a great area to explore on a nice viz day.

It is. It's not a penalty box dive. We go there pretty regularly.

But I wouldn't call it "Breakwater Deep". It's a whole different
ecosystem.

 

[Gombessa]

Just one of the many benefits of having access to your own boat, I suppose

 

[supersand]

Nice video. Visibility out at hopkins looked great.

Kathy did look to a have a little bit of a guilty look after trying to catch that metridium on fire.

Erik

 

[kathydee]

Nice video. Visibility out at hopkins looked great.

Kathy did look to a have a little bit of a guilty look after trying to catch that metridium on fire.

Erik

I had one of those "hey you better delete that or else" looks !

 

[zinmaker]

So that is what Hopkin's Deep looks like! Thanks for the video! My dive there looked like your second boat dive with about 2 feet of viz and lots of surge, a few years ago. Glad to finally see the Metridium covered rocks there.

 

[Bogie]

Thanks for another nice video.

 

[alibi 2]

thanks for sharing the video..always exciting to see a dive!...(first time i got to see hubby driving the boat!..lol)