What is the appeal of Lake, Cold, Low vis diving?

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I did a couple cold lake, low vis dives when I was in college. Mostly a function of having just bought gear, cheap fills at the LDS, and nothing better to do. Sometimes we were going for an attraction, like sluicegates with currents we could ride or a scuttled boat, but a lot of it was just because the ocean was far away and we wanted to dive something.
 
You never know what you might find till you explore it. There is a deep, cold, somewhat low-vis quarry in central wisconsin that gets a pretty good haze of algae by mid-summer. Under the 50' thermocline the water temp drops by 10 degrees but the visibility is fantastic. Because of all the diffusion above, almost no light gets below the thermocline, so its like a really cool night dive at high noon. Flashlights look like lightsabers cutting through the water, and there's treasures to be found at depth like wallets and phones and keys and sunglasses. When its high humidity and 90 degrees topside, going for a cool "night" dive in the middle of the day on a treasure hunt where anything is possible - beats just about anything else I'd do within an hour radius of home. Having a few friends to do it with, and then grabbing a beer afterwards while we try to track down the owners of the found items isn't a bad way to spend an afternoon either.
 

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