Ok Doc...I'm quoting myself to let you know that I just went diving today on the Papoose (which is now the Hutton, but still called the Papoose because none of the NC wreck diving community really gives a hoot...and it confuses people like me and visitors...May get scolded for saying that
...And the Schurz.
Scenario...Today, January 13 2007...30 miles out, off Cape Lookout, NC...
Air temperature: 74 degrees
Water temperature:72 degrees
Visibility: 50 fsw
Marine Life: Recall that NC was ranked #1 in marine life encounters...or is it big marine life???
Saw three huge lion fish...Beautiful destroyers
Sand tigers everywhere on both wrecks.
Spinners (black tip sharks)
Amberjack
Big grouper...little grouper
Tropical fish still hanging out till around February
Also did a penetration inside the Papoose...err...Hutton...and tried out my new $800 Greenforce. Boy have I been given sh*it for buying a flashlight for $800. One guy looked at it on the way out and said...that's a cave light...I said...yep...but lets see what it does deep inside a wreck. He went inside with me and a buddy and I used my back up. When we got out of the sight of light, I turned the backup off and turned on the Greenforce and it lit the inside up like a stadium. Heck of a cave light...
Just another fantastic day of diving off the NC coast with Capt Leroy on the Captain's Lady...
What was that Canadian place that got #1 in wreck diving...