Sean326
Contributor
We had a great dive on the Spring Tide this Sunday thanks to Captain Ron and John the mate. We dove the wreck of the Arundo about an hour and a half out of Brielle. We were underway by 6:45 the boat was easy to find but harder to load than the Tuna Seizure. The weather perfect but the water was a little rough (not alot just a little) maybe 1' to 3 '.
The Spring Tide is a nicer boat than the web page would lead you to believe. It was comfortable for 6 divers (8 including Ron & John)
We hooked the wreck quickly and we were able to splash in as soon as people got geared up.
The wreck was huge and the depth where we hooked it was about 125' deep, vis was about 20' to 30' and I think I heard the temp was about 44.
Once on the wreck it was easy to make out several large truck tires and whole trucks. I ran a 150' wreck reel out to the end and never found any thing cool to pick up and never was really able to identify any parts of the wreck just a vast debris field. This may have been my own fault as I kept my mask in the mud looking for relics and never hovered far enough above the wreck to try to see the big picture. One of our group found a really nice pair of brass binoculars. several divers also got bugs, maybe 4 or 5 for the boat.
Before going in my buddy Jim and I had dropped a deco hang bottle with two regs down to about 20'. We did this mostly because I was Planning on doing both my dives using my twin 100 HP's and I thought that I would rather not use the air in my tanks for deco on the first dive. Several other divers dropped gear lines as well.
While doing our deco hang after the first dive we looked down and saw about 6 or 7 sharks circling below us. They were 3' to 4' and they kept striking and sniffing at the weights at the end of the gear lines. After we got back in the boat another returning diver then told us he saw the sharks sniffing around our hang bottle, especially my yellow hose and yellow trimmed reg. I already give leisure pro enough business so I brought up the hang bottle.
We all took about a two hour surface interval and most of us did a second dive, still no relic. We were back in the the marina by 3:45pm.
Great dive, great weather, great boat, Thanks Ron & John
The Spring Tide is a nicer boat than the web page would lead you to believe. It was comfortable for 6 divers (8 including Ron & John)
We hooked the wreck quickly and we were able to splash in as soon as people got geared up.
The wreck was huge and the depth where we hooked it was about 125' deep, vis was about 20' to 30' and I think I heard the temp was about 44.
Once on the wreck it was easy to make out several large truck tires and whole trucks. I ran a 150' wreck reel out to the end and never found any thing cool to pick up and never was really able to identify any parts of the wreck just a vast debris field. This may have been my own fault as I kept my mask in the mud looking for relics and never hovered far enough above the wreck to try to see the big picture. One of our group found a really nice pair of brass binoculars. several divers also got bugs, maybe 4 or 5 for the boat.
Before going in my buddy Jim and I had dropped a deco hang bottle with two regs down to about 20'. We did this mostly because I was Planning on doing both my dives using my twin 100 HP's and I thought that I would rather not use the air in my tanks for deco on the first dive. Several other divers dropped gear lines as well.
While doing our deco hang after the first dive we looked down and saw about 6 or 7 sharks circling below us. They were 3' to 4' and they kept striking and sniffing at the weights at the end of the gear lines. After we got back in the boat another returning diver then told us he saw the sharks sniffing around our hang bottle, especially my yellow hose and yellow trimmed reg. I already give leisure pro enough business so I brought up the hang bottle.
We all took about a two hour surface interval and most of us did a second dive, still no relic. We were back in the the marina by 3:45pm.
Great dive, great weather, great boat, Thanks Ron & John
