VA beach for about 10 days

[crazed_dolphin]

I'm going to be in the VA beach area for about 10 days and I was wondering how are the conditions in mid to late January. From what I'm reading it sounds like I need to dive with a dry suit. I've never done that so I guess I should take a course in dry suit diving.

Thanks

 

[Don Burke]

I'm going to be in the VA beach area for about 10 days and I was wondering how are the conditions in mid to late January. From what I'm reading it sounds like I need to dive with a dry suit. I've never done that so I guess I should take a course in dry suit diving.

Thanks

I've been drysuit diving since November, although there are some who still dive wet.

That last wetsuit dive was a bit of a stretch.

Here are some URLs for wind:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Southeast.shtml

http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/cbports/cbAllMET.html

Here is a link to the NWS forecast:

http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/fmtbltn.pl?file=forecasts/marine/coastal/an/anz632.txt

 

[Distraction]

Hey Don!

How has the diving been? I haven't seen any reports on TidalFish, so I assume you haven't been shooting anything, but have you seen anything interesting recently?

(I'm trying to live vicariously through you!)

Matt

I've been drysuit diving since November, although there are some who still dive wet.

That last wetsuit dive was a bit of a stretch.

Here are some URLs for wind:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Southeast.shtml

http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/cbports/cbAllMET.html

Here is a link to the NWS forecast:

http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/fmtbltn.pl?file=forecasts/marine/coastal/an/anz632.txt

 

[Don Burke]

With this and that, my diving for the last couple of monthshas been either at the Virginia Marine Science Museum or working dives. I was in the water behind PETA scrubbing a sailboat hull a few weeks ago and have been in the Chesapeake Bay Aquarium a couple of times a week.

My most interesting dive for some time was in November when I was on the bottom of Wiloughby Bay ripping an old deadrise apart. That was wet and it was about as much as I could handle.

If the wind would be so kind as to lay down, we can get out and hit some Tautog. I've never been spearfishing before, but think I could get the hang of it pretty quickly.

Hey Don!

How has the diving been? I haven't seen any reports on TidalFish, so I assume you haven't been shooting anything, but have you seen anything interesting recently?

(I'm trying to live vicariously through you!)

Matt

 

[Distraction]

Willougby Bay? Like negative visibility?

 

[Don Burke]

I had about three feet. When the water gets cold the visibility gets better.

Willougby Bay? Like negative visibility?

 

[Distraction]

See anything cool down there?