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Gilldiver
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Here is her entry in Lloyd's Register
Some photos from when she was still on top of the water:
And the Side Scan and Multi-beam images from NOAA
The stern is in good shape but she is broken down in the bow and on the starboard side midships. Vis is rarly more than 15 feet with 10 or less being common.
Some photos from when she was still on top of the water:
And the Side Scan and Multi-beam images from NOAA
The stern is in good shape but she is broken down in the bow and on the starboard side midships. Vis is rarly more than 15 feet with 10 or less being common.
This should be an interesting report! I've fished the Race....This dive will have to be at slack tide, for sure!
I'll be curious to hear how much fishing line was around....
Dave C
I'll be curious to hear how much fishing line was around....
Dave C
Gilldiver
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Rainer
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Look forward to your report!
OP
AfterDark
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--Sorry no report we tried 6 times to grapple her but the currents were running so fast the grapple was pulled away from the wreck or didn't sink fast enough. We had white water from the current only. We saw her on the side scan but couldn't hook her. The slack was going to be 1245, at 1215 we called it. We did dive Wilderness Point which wasn't that good with loose seaweed in the water column and hanging just over the bottom there wasn't much to see but seaweed. We then did a dive at Rebel Reef. We named it after our club Rebel Divers. It is on the south side of Fishers Island near wreck rock. It is a drift dive about a mile long. Depths range from 20 to 40fsw. Visibility was good at 15' and water temps of 52F. Large rocks standing 10'-15' from the bottom are interuptted by patches of sand where flounder hang out. Lots of small togs. Not the day I planned for but that's diving.
Gilldiver
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The tides can be funny over her. I have seen dead slack 90 minutes before predicted for the Race.
porgyhunter
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Kudos for trying A.D. Sounds like a dangerous dive.... whats the Max knots of current at the site?
OP
AfterDark
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I'll bet! That's true of many sites around here.
Porgy, I don't know what the speed of the water is there but it's a place where several currents converge and makes it very exciting. I wouldn't call this dive anymore dangerous then any other wreck dive in NE ya just have to plan carefully and know when to say when or not, if ya push it it'll get dangerous.
Gilldiver
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The tide chart shows up to 3 knots.
http://www.mobilegeographics.com:81/locations/6433.html?y=2011&m=7&d=9
Spring tides are the ones you have to be ware of:
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