Wreck Bucket List?

[Kevrumbo]

I would put truck laggon and the wrecks of the atol on the bucket list. A more short term list for me includes the: E.M. Clark, S-5, and the Billy Mitchel fleet if I do not age out before my skils get that far....
Eric

The hydro atlantic is 1 of my favorite dives on the east coast. The engine room and machinist space are a definate must see. Last year some cavers headed into the chain locker only to find that huge Grouper coming the other way down the passage. They got pretty rattled because it was not yielding to them or there scooters! lol

So what's the contingency drill inside a wreck if a Grouper swallows your lead diver with the Primary Reel?

 

[waterpirate]

I think a good washing of the udergarments was called for, post dive! I will ask them about that real time protocol.
Eric

 

[Colliam7]

A more short term list for me includes the: E.M. Clark, S-5, and the Billy Mitchel fleet

Made it to the Clark last summer. Third try / third year. One diver on the boat had been trying for 8 years and finally made it. Nice dive, that day there was negligible current and good viz. We did it in June, instead of waiting for August, and that may have played a role. As a result, we are scheduled on another Clark charter (with JT Barker, as before) for the first weekend in June 2014. But, the conditions are always a bit of a crap shoot.

I have been on two charters this year where I was supposed to be a support diver for a dive on one of the ships in the Mitchell fleet, and the divers didn't make it to the ship either time - didn't even splash on it because of the ripping current.

if I do not age out before my skils get that far....

A good point. I fear that my age may have put some of these dives beyond by grasp. But, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman played old guys checking the boxes on their 'bucket list', so maybe there is still hope. . Problem is, given the vagaries of conditions on these sites, I may age out simply because of how many years it sometimes takes to actually get on some of these wrecks.

The hydro atlantic is 1 of my favorite dives on the east coast. The engine room and machinist space are a definate must see. Last year some cavers headed into the chain locker only to find that huge Grouper coming the other way down the passage. They got pretty rattled because it was not yielding to them or there scooters! lol

The Hydro is such a great dive, isn't it! I love it as well. The grouper comments brings back memories - the first time I dove it a few years back I was the CA for a tec class, so I was the one who splashed first, carrying a line attached to a surface float. I was going to tie in, then the other instructor was going to descend with the three students along the line. There was some current, so my dive was a bit of a dive bomb. I am screaming down in the void, with nothing visible above or below, hoping that I would not miss the wreck, and suffer the associated embarrassment. Finally, the water in front of me gets darker and all of a sudden, there is this big, beautiful ship sitting on the bottom. Thank goodness. I manage to latch onto what appeared to be a vent pipe, held on in the current, and wrapped the line around it (stupidly trapping an ungloved hand in the process, which I had to painfully pull out from under the wrapped line). Finally, the line was secure, and my hand was free, and I just hung there panting. I finally regained my composure, and decided to look around a bit, while I waited for the rest of the team. I turned around just as this enormous goliath grouper came up from the hold opening below, swimming toward me. Scared the pee-waddy out of me. That is one impressive fish, and I was not expecting it to be right next to me.

 

[waterpirate]

Just imagine how those cavers felt in the passageway?? If those goliaths ever get a taste for neoprene, we are all in trouble!
I think the clark is a realistic goal, the fleet is a long shot, as is the monitor. I seem to have landed on a max depth of 220fsw in moderate curent. Anything deeper than that or in a ripping current and I am not up to the task as I would have been 10 years ago. Getting old sucks!
Eric

 

[Daria_23]

Well, I have few places in mind...
Franken in Baltic Sea, Poland (60-70m)
Pioneer in Philippiness (100m)
Britannic (guess)
Andrea Doria (legend!)

But, honestly, I adore searching for new, unknown, wild wrecks and diving there. The less popular, the better, in my opinion.

 

[Brewone0to]

So what's the contingency drill inside a wreck if a Grouper swallows your lead diver with the Primary Reel?

Seems that the only proper option would be to thumb the dive dive, turn around, and leave in as rapid an exit as possible.
If the grouper is still hungry, my advice would be to impersonate an octopus and leave a cloud of brown ink to conceal your evasion.

 

[waterpirate]

If the grouper is still hungry, my advice would be to impersonate an octopus and leave a cloud of brown ink to conceal your evasion.

Surely you are not reffering to " the war hammer "?

 

[Centrals]

Well, I have few places in mind...
Pioneer in Philippiness (100m)

Where in Philippines may I ask?
The one I know in Malapascua is only about half as deep.

 

[Rich Keller]

What do you think of this list?

Wreck Diving- 16 Purpose-Sunk Wrecks | Scuba Diving

 

[across]

Empress of Ireland and ANY U-boat that still looks like a U-boat.