SFLDiver3445
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Last Sunday, May 15th, I joined a few friends for a dive on RBJ in Pompano Beach, Florida. If you're not familiar with the RBJ, it's an amazing wreck. In fact, on this dive, you actually get two wrecks for the price of one. The 130' Corey N Chris was sunk first in 1986, then in in 1988 the 226 Ronald B. Johnson was added to the equation. However, as fate would have it, the RBJ landed directly on top of the CNC!
The wrecks lie in approximately 260 feet of water, and when conditions cooperate, it makes for an amazing dive, and that day was one of those! The ocean was a bit choppy, but the winds were out of the southwest, which made it bearable.
For this dive, we chose the best technical Captain and boat charter, Captain Oliver and his boat Avid Diver:
Capt. Oliver opted to hot drop us on the wreck, which worked out great. We hit the wreck in approximately 4 minutes. Tony (Tienuts) immediately put his camera in video mode, turned on his lights and yelled action.
There was minimal to no current on the wreck, great visibility, reasonably warm temperatures and the water had a stunning blue hue to it. Fortunately, I made the decision to take my trusty point-n-shoot camera on this dive and managed to snap a few shots. Here's just a few of the shots I snapped while exploring the wreck:
All four of us were diving rebreathers (4 Revos & 1 Dive Rite Optima), which made it quite manageable for us to squeeze in 30 minutes or so of bottom time before it was time to shoot the lift bags and start the approximately 90+ minutes of decompression. While on the hang, the water color was a rich beautiful blue color. Here's a few shots I snapped of the other divers during our ascent/decompression:
As is customary, we concluded the day with the post dive meal. That day we chose Flannigan's in Pompano Beach. Here's a picture of the group after a great day of diving:
As I previously mentioned, Tony shot what turned out to be an amazing video of the dive. If you want to view the video, you can see on Youtube at the following link:
YouTube - ‪Hot dropping the RBJ‬‏
Until the next dive - Enjoy!:cool2:
The wrecks lie in approximately 260 feet of water, and when conditions cooperate, it makes for an amazing dive, and that day was one of those! The ocean was a bit choppy, but the winds were out of the southwest, which made it bearable.
For this dive, we chose the best technical Captain and boat charter, Captain Oliver and his boat Avid Diver:
Capt. Oliver opted to hot drop us on the wreck, which worked out great. We hit the wreck in approximately 4 minutes. Tony (Tienuts) immediately put his camera in video mode, turned on his lights and yelled action.
There was minimal to no current on the wreck, great visibility, reasonably warm temperatures and the water had a stunning blue hue to it. Fortunately, I made the decision to take my trusty point-n-shoot camera on this dive and managed to snap a few shots. Here's just a few of the shots I snapped while exploring the wreck:
All four of us were diving rebreathers (4 Revos & 1 Dive Rite Optima), which made it quite manageable for us to squeeze in 30 minutes or so of bottom time before it was time to shoot the lift bags and start the approximately 90+ minutes of decompression. While on the hang, the water color was a rich beautiful blue color. Here's a few shots I snapped of the other divers during our ascent/decompression:
As is customary, we concluded the day with the post dive meal. That day we chose Flannigan's in Pompano Beach. Here's a picture of the group after a great day of diving:
As I previously mentioned, Tony shot what turned out to be an amazing video of the dive. If you want to view the video, you can see on Youtube at the following link:
YouTube - ‪Hot dropping the RBJ‬‏
Until the next dive - Enjoy!:cool2:
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