Texas Clipper sinking

[carlislere]

Got the following email from American Diving regarding the sinking of the Texas Clipper.

The Texas Clipper

The reefing of the Texas Clipper press event will be held at South Padre Island Convention Center on March 30, 2007. The planned reefing of the Texas Clipper will take place on March 31st, 2007.

The Texas Clipper is a decommissioned troop transport ship (USS Queens) some 480 feet long and will lay in 135 feet of water with the wheel house sitting on 45 feet of water. This premiere dive location will be 17 miles dead east of the South Padre Island jetties in blue water.
From 1965 to 1996 she served as a the Texas A&M Training Academy ship at Texas A&M Galveston. To view the Texas Clipper coming into the South Padre Island jetties, see http://www.divesouthpadre.com/.

The Texas Clipper can be reached within a one hour run from the jetties of South Padre Island aboard the M.V. Diver I.

 

[AXL72]

thanks for the info...u rock!!!

 

[daniel f aleman]

The Texas Clipper is a decommissioned troop transport ship (USS Queens) some 480 feet long and will lay in 135 feet of water with the wheel house sitting on 45 feet of water. This premiere dive location will be 17 miles dead east of the South Padre Island jetties in blue water.

The Texas Clipper can be reached within a one hour run from the jetties of South Padre Island aboard the M.V. Diver I.

Is Tim taking trip deposits yet?

 

[carlislere]

Don't know. You can call or email him and ask. I'm sure it will be quite an event.

 

[PvilleStang]

I got it too, and it says he is:

Dive trips for the 2007 season are being booked with the following pricing:
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday dive trips are $175.00 per diver per dive day.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday dive trips are $155.00 per diver.
These are two tank dive trips.
Three and four tanks dive trips are available with meals upon request.

All dive trips are commissioned to the dive store at a rate of 12% plus one diver free for every six divers paid.
Weights and air cylinders are provided at no charge as well as water, soda, and snacks.

Nitrox is available
Trimix is available,
Oxygen is available
Sodasorb is available

We have a list of hotels and motels, in Brownsville Texas, that will work with your store in the high summer months and a list of beach hotels that will work with your store during the fall, winter and spring.
So why don't you come on down to the Texas Riviera and try the finest wreck diving in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[MichaelBaranows]

Thanks fo rthe info. Looks like I will dragging my boat down there after all this summer.

 

[Hemlon]

Road Trip!!!!!!!!

 

[chairmanTARAC]

The Clipper will take many dives to see all decks, not to mention the cargo holds and tween decks. It takes hours to walk the decks.

 

[PvilleStang]

Does anyone know if they're cutting holes in to the engine rooms like they did on the Oriskany?

 

[cmay]

The following link is to the TPWD site for official information.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/landwater/water/habitats/artificial_reef/texas_clipper.phtml