ScubaSteve
Wow.....what a DB
So the weather gods and goddesses of the deep waters did respond. We dived on the wreck of the Niagara 2 near Tobermory. The water was like glass. My buddy, who has done this wreck over 400 times, said he'd never seen these conditions: clear water, flat as a pancake water, and no other divers to muck up the viz.
From the dive boat, you could see down to the bottom at 90 ft. The deck of the Niagara is a 70 ft and the smokestack is at 55 ft.
From the bottom, at 90 ft, I looked up and could see the name on the bow and stern of the dive boat, Bruce Isles. The captain said she could see us putting the lift bag on the mooring line clear as day.
37F Degrees water temp. I feel lucky to have seen something I will remember for the rest of my lifeView attachment 154043View attachment 154044View attachment 154045.
Wow that is impressive. I only have 20 or so dives on the Niagara II but none of them were like that. I would agree that you very lucky to have seen that first hand.
Today I dove Cedar Hill outside of Wiarton. 39° with very minor surface chop. Almost no current to speak of and visibility like I do not recall ever seeing. Nothing like yours on the Niagara II but I would estimate it at 50-60 feet. In the shallows, with the sun beaming in and the sandy bottom, were it not for the fact that the ice cream headache was taking over my body, I would have sworn I was in the tropics. Just an awesome dive......first one since about mid-December IIRC. Once on the surface I realized that I did not have a second dive in me.....too bad but the temperature of the air was not enough to warm me up between dives.