What is "muck diving"?

[IceIce]

Great website you have there!

 

[LekicINC]

Thanks, IceIce. Its great to hear from someone who loves muck diving so much. Knowing PADI, if it gets big enough, they will probably give a muck certification soon enough! I guess there is some luck involved: luck you get a good DM! Glad you liked me website. If you know anyone that would want to provide pictures so I can the species profile underway, that would be great. I should have a lot more of the places section done very soon. Next to be added is Bali, and Kapali in Borneo, Malaysia. Then Durian. P.S. I agree that for explanations sake "macro" is a good way to describe muck diving, to distinguish it from yucky muck dives.

 

[josh]

Hmm. I would use the same definition as "ianw2" and "Ice Ice". To us (those that I dive with) "muck diving" is getting away from the coral onto the sandy/silty bottom and looking for those rare and elusive creatures. 1 pipe fish is worth 1000 "reef fish"...
-j-

 

[djb_1965]

Muck diving.....poor vis, when you can't see anything and then all of the sudden see something......what is it?? Oh just my mask lens......now that's diving!

 

[DiveMom1927]

Muk diving..... Diving in Mukilteo, WA ..... J/k lol

 

[OnTheSpot]

It is a sub-division of macro diving, although you will often hear the terms incorrectly used inter-changeably.

 

[Barracuda2]

Muck diving around my neck of the woods is every time the sheriff calls out our Search and Recovery Team. Since 1970, I have "seen" only two objects (a body and a gun) before bringing them up. All the other times it was just search and recover by Braille.