seadoggirl
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We had two fun days on board the H2O Below.
On Saturday 4/26/08 we had a full boat going first to the Petes Tide and then to the PC Barges. The Captain wisely chose these two sites to stay away from the snapper fishermen. Visibility on the Petes Tide was somewhere around watery pea soup! The water was 68 degrees with a mild current. We were the only boat on this wreck and had a good time looking at the fish. I was the last diver up the anchor line so I needed to untie the spool from the wreck to the anchor line. Well . I dont generally get jumpy underwater but I was taking off the spool line and heard a goliath grouper. You know they make that grunting noise. I looked around and didnt see anything. Then I noticed another fishing weight. I collect them and melt them down to make recycled dive weights. So I decided to cut the mono and take the weight. Again I heard the grunting noise. Now Im getting a little twitchier. I look around. No grouper. So then my mind takes over and I think He can see me but I cant see him. I wonder how big he is? I wonder if he can see well enough in this pea soup to know that Im not food?
Well, Ive read everything that Stephen King was ever written! Cats that kill people, Dogs that eat children, all kinds of things that go bump in the night. So I got my tasty white a$$ up that line and onto the boat. Weird almost 300 dives and I get freaked out over a grouper.
The second dive was the PC Barge which was cool. I had recovered and had a great dive. More weights collected and more mono chopped up to clean up the wreck. The vis was a lot better at about 30 feet. The hot dogs on the way in were excellent.
The trip on Sunday was to the Oriskany. The water temps are still in the 68 range but the vis was better. We had a great group of divers from the Air Force Officers School in Montgomery, Alabama. Cant wait for them to come back in two weeks.
Okay here is my soap box. We witnessed a diver from another boat pulling the Octopus out of their hiding holes again on Sunday. Why do people do that? Please leave the Octopus alone. Everything Ive read about Octopus says that they are easily stressed and can literally die from stress. It happened last year, please dont kill the Octopus this year.
On Saturday 4/26/08 we had a full boat going first to the Petes Tide and then to the PC Barges. The Captain wisely chose these two sites to stay away from the snapper fishermen. Visibility on the Petes Tide was somewhere around watery pea soup! The water was 68 degrees with a mild current. We were the only boat on this wreck and had a good time looking at the fish. I was the last diver up the anchor line so I needed to untie the spool from the wreck to the anchor line. Well . I dont generally get jumpy underwater but I was taking off the spool line and heard a goliath grouper. You know they make that grunting noise. I looked around and didnt see anything. Then I noticed another fishing weight. I collect them and melt them down to make recycled dive weights. So I decided to cut the mono and take the weight. Again I heard the grunting noise. Now Im getting a little twitchier. I look around. No grouper. So then my mind takes over and I think He can see me but I cant see him. I wonder how big he is? I wonder if he can see well enough in this pea soup to know that Im not food?
Well, Ive read everything that Stephen King was ever written! Cats that kill people, Dogs that eat children, all kinds of things that go bump in the night. So I got my tasty white a$$ up that line and onto the boat. Weird almost 300 dives and I get freaked out over a grouper.
The second dive was the PC Barge which was cool. I had recovered and had a great dive. More weights collected and more mono chopped up to clean up the wreck. The vis was a lot better at about 30 feet. The hot dogs on the way in were excellent.
The trip on Sunday was to the Oriskany. The water temps are still in the 68 range but the vis was better. We had a great group of divers from the Air Force Officers School in Montgomery, Alabama. Cant wait for them to come back in two weeks.
Okay here is my soap box. We witnessed a diver from another boat pulling the Octopus out of their hiding holes again on Sunday. Why do people do that? Please leave the Octopus alone. Everything Ive read about Octopus says that they are easily stressed and can literally die from stress. It happened last year, please dont kill the Octopus this year.
