Wreck diving and the USS Oriskany

[teknitroxdiver]

[hijacking thread again]

Anyone know if there's a shop around Gulf Shores that will rent an AL40 stage bottle?

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[RV]

I'm diving there labor day, what was the temp @ your max dept?

 

[halocline]

Just out of curiosity, what size tanks are divers generally using for this dive?

 

[Oriskany Divemaster]

For AL40s try Down Under Dive shop.
Temp on bottom mid 70s. Upper part of wreck 80 degrees
Most use AL80. I also use steel 120s

 

[halocline]

With a single AL80 what kind of depth/BT are divers getting? Seems like it would be pretty much down and back.

 

[Oriskany Divemaster]

It all depends on goals and personal air consumption.

First, there's nothing really to see below 110. You can easily see the flight deck from there. Even if you do a touch and go, you're only there for two or three seconds. When I lead a dive, we see most everything there is and have a bottom time of 30 minutes. It all depends on how you do it.

 

[teknitroxdiver]

Nice day today, wasn't it? How bout that surface current! Which boat were you on? We were on Cat'n Around, right in front of the big H2O one.

 

[Oriskany Divemaster]

I was on the Y-Knot. We had a private charter and didin't leave the dock until 8am, then did 3 tanks on the Oriskany. You're right, it was a great day! Hope to see you on it again.

 

[The Chairman]

You might check out http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=153080

 

[teknitroxdiver]

I was on the Y-Knot. We had a private charter and didin't leave the dock until 8am, then did 3 tanks on the Oriskany. You're right, it was a great day! Hope to see you on it again.

Ah, you were right in front of us then. When we ended up on top of your tag line all our divers were joking that since we were a catamaran, all your divers could just line up underneath our boat...


I am so ready to go back now....