Wetherill yesterday

[mfalco]

Finally made the trip to wetherill. What a great place!!

Dove by the boat ramp and saw some tropicals on the first dive.

The second and third dive we dove along a wall that is straight out from the next parking lot down. Thanks to Ocean State Scuba for telling us about the wall. It is covered in white sea anenomies, and gets deep.

 

[guggie]

Can you be more specific about where you did this second and third dive? What do you mean by next parking lot down?

Google Maps

 

[jefffalcone]

If you drive past Ft. Wetherill, there is another parking lot on the next point to the east. Off the end of this point there is a very nice wall covered with white anenomies. I suppose you could swim across from the Ft. Wetherill parking lot if you were diving the east side of the point. It grets deep very quickly. Our max depth was 94', but it goes deeper, this was just how far our air would take us safely. It was also the length of my dive flag rope. Very cool dive. A bit of a hike from the parking lot, but not bad.

Great day of diving. Only problem is my almost brand new drysuit leaked.

 

[guggie]

Would the red arrow be the parking lot and the blue arrow the area you dove?

Google Maps

 

[all4scuba05]

Probably the same wall we get to from the point.

 

[dave4868]

If you drive past Ft. Wetherill, there is another parking lot on the next point to the east. Off the end of this point there is a very nice wall covered with white anenomies. I suppose you could swim across from the Ft. Wetherill parking lot if you were diving the east side of the point. It grets deep very quickly. Our max depth was 94', but it goes deeper, this was just how far our air would take us safely. It was also the length of my dive flag rope. Very cool dive. A bit of a hike from the parking lot, but not bad.

Great day of diving. Only problem is my almost brand new drysuit leaked.

Too bad about the drysuit leak. Hopefully, you can find the problem and correct it easily.

Yesterday was indeed a great day for diving (dove Front Beach in Rockport). Reminded me of the peaceful beach scenes from the movie Summer of '42. A timeless quality.

Like guggie, I'm interested in more specifics, since I recently dove Fort Wetherill for the first time and got to a steep dropoff a bit east of Point A (Blue mark) on guggie's Google map. (Thanks guggie!)

We got there by crossing West Cove from the main parking lot, but later I checked out the other parking lot for quicker access to the wall (Point B) on guggie's map.

Can I assume you walked to the little cove and entered the water at the beach north of the "B" (Red mark) parking lot?

By the way, were your winds from the Northwest like those in Rockport yesterday?

If so, how was the vis at Fort Wetherill with NW winds?

Thanks in advance.

Dave C

 

[mfalco]

Google Maps

Red is parking, blue is entry point, and the black line is about where the wall is

Vis was about 5' yesterday

 

[jefffalcone]

Guggie had it pretty much dead on. Point b is a little east of where it should be. The entry point is obvious if you walk down from the parking lot. Exactly what you're thinking. If you swim pretty much straight out from the beach entry, you can't miss the wall. I think it's across the east cove, unless I'm completely fliped around. It's across the cove that is towards Naraganset bay from the main lot. If you're swimming across this bay and hitting a wall, I suspect it is the same wall. Much shorter swim from this lot. We only surface swam about 15 yards from the shore and droped down 35' to the top of the wall. The beach is in a small cove and we dropped down about at the edge of the cove. The current was pulling us out and by the time I had pulled on my fins and gloves, I had drifeted to right above the wall.

As far as the vis, it was pretty bad. Between 5 and 10 feet. At about 60' it was pitch dark and you would think you were doing a night dive.

 

[guggie]

Like guggie, I'm interested in more specifics, since I recently dove Fort Wetherill for the first time and got to a steep dropoff a bit east of Point A on guggie's Google map. (Thanks guggie!)

We got there by crossing West Cove from the main parking lot, but later I checked out the other parking lot for quicker access to the wall (Point B) on guggie's map.

Can I assume you walked to the little cove and entered the water at the beach north of the "B" parking lot?

Dave C

Hmmm. I have no marks labeled A nor B on my map, just red and blue colored.

Google Maps

Red is parking, blue is entry point, and the black line is about where the wall is

Vis was about 5' yesterday

Perfect. Nice use of Google maps! I think this is the same wall that others dive on. You just arrived at it from a different parking lot and shore entry point.

 

[jefffalcone]

Google Maps

Red is parking, blue is entry point, and the black line is about where the wall is

Vis was about 5' yesterday

Mike,

The blue marker is actually in the wrong place. The entry is in the little cove at the end of the point. I'd mave the marker but I don't know how.