What is the definition of “Muck Diving”?

[Sure Squintsalot]

Muck diving at night is really where the action is. If things weren't hard enough to find in the middle of the day, going at night will triple the frustration!

 

[rmorgan]

Muck diving at night is really where the action is.

All diving at night, for that matter. Speaking of which--"blackwater"--I mean, that sounds pretty gross, doesn't it? Like what happens after somebody stirs up the muck?

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Blackwater diving is not muck diving. It about the exact opposite!

 

[Dan]

What is blackwater diving?

Blackwater diving is basically a night dive without torches, but using high powered light sources, to simulate the moon and atrract unique critters.

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[rmorgan]

Blackwater diving is not muck diving. It about the exact opposite!

Yes, I've done a good bit of it. Thanks!

 

[happy-diver]

MUCK DIVING Definition & Meaning

The closest I get to my idea of muck diving is looking for lost items at the bottom of the Bodega Bay harbor in the “real” muck.

also excvating for artifacts under piers and other sites of human activity in sand or silt or other muck and detritus

 

[Ghost95]

Years ago we said we were muck diving when we'd dive silty bottoms or river beds and dig around on the bottom looking for bottles and stuff. When we'd get out we'd be filthy from all the muck we stirred up. Visibility was usually only a couple feet to start and quickly went to crap after we stirred up the sediment.

This is the first time I've heard the term muck diving with relation to photography.

 

[Joneill]

A famous muck diving destination to give an idea of what muck diving is all about:

https://youtu.be/zpi95e0BBGs?si=IP9OKNpUjXZ0GZUb

 

[Pearlman]

Muck diving sounds kind of gross.
The term “muck diving” gives me the impression that it’s diving down in low to zero vis dark mud bottom sludgy gross place full of muck, like a sewer pond.
What is muck diving???

You are right! Don’t believe all the others …they are just faking it… this is what they really do when they say they’ve been muck diving… it’s all an elaborate cover-up!

 

[Dan]

About 8 years ago, I posted this question to SB:

Where do you muck dive?

Some of you may wonder about what I meant by "muck dive". A quick search in the Internet you'll find this: Muck diving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I did muck diving for the first time in a dive site called Little Bight in Utila in August 2008. I got hooked to this type of relaxing...

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