Saltwater Junky
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The story begins.... in Macon, GA 3weeks ago my dive buddies and I planned a trip to the Oriskany for May 3. Two days before the trip we get a call from our charter announcing the cancellation due to 4-6' seas. A little bummed by this, but still wanting to get a couple O/W's in, so we decided to charter out of New Smyrna Beach, Fl thinking the Atlantic would be OK. We hurriedly booked our charter and hotel last Thursday, May 1. The next morning( Friday, May 2) we motor'd on down to Ginnie Springs for a couple of dives. Before we could get our gear on we get a call from New Smyrna Beach ...you guessed it...to cancel our dive....yep 4-6' seas and 8-10 viz. We ask if it is because of the viz, because we don't care...been in 3ft viz....we really wanted to dive salt water
......can you tell we haven't been on a boat in 4-6' seas? Oh, by the way the dive site at New Smyrna Beach was 18nm offshore. Well, the charter said they ain't going out in 4-6' seas. Rats! Plans foiled once again. We were determined to salt water dive. We decided to head a little further south. Pompano Beach was the ticket. I called my acquaintance Enzo and booked our wreck dives. After all of that, we finally we able to dive Ginnie. We couldn't cancel our hotel in Daytona, so we had to spend the night in Daytona and drive to Pompano Beach. After Ginnie we drove to Daytona and rolled in to bed @12:30am and left for our dive at 4am....we had to be at the dock by 7:30am. We made our dive right on time. The dives were nice. The 1nm boat ride out was exciting with 4-6' seas. The surface interval was not so fun.:icosm13: Would we do it again? YES, and have plenty of Dramamine. (1000 Miles travelled)
......can you tell we haven't been on a boat in 4-6' seas? Oh, by the way the dive site at New Smyrna Beach was 18nm offshore. Well, the charter said they ain't going out in 4-6' seas. Rats! Plans foiled once again. We were determined to salt water dive. We decided to head a little further south. Pompano Beach was the ticket. I called my acquaintance Enzo and booked our wreck dives. After all of that, we finally we able to dive Ginnie. We couldn't cancel our hotel in Daytona, so we had to spend the night in Daytona and drive to Pompano Beach. After Ginnie we drove to Daytona and rolled in to bed @12:30am and left for our dive at 4am....we had to be at the dock by 7:30am. We made our dive right on time. The dives were nice. The 1nm boat ride out was exciting with 4-6' seas. The surface interval was not so fun.:icosm13: Would we do it again? YES, and have plenty of Dramamine. (1000 Miles travelled)
