Water Temps?

[Spectre]

Heading down to Morehead City next week. What's the water temps been like lately?

[Soggy]

I was just a few hours south two weeks ago and the temps were close to 80 on the surface and 75 at 65 fsw.

And I'm wicked jealous that you are headed to the wreck graveyard of the Atlantic. Doing the Uboat?

[Spectre]

Soggy once bubbled...
And I'm wicked jealous that you are headed to the wreck graveyard of the Atlantic. Doing the Uboat?

Probably. We did it last year.

You know; I think there is a spot that opened up a couple weeks ago. I can check into it if your interested.

[MikeS]

Soggy once bubbled...
Doing the Uboat?

Dived the U352 last year. While it’s something you’ll want to do once, it’s not a great dive other than for the history involved. The bottom of the wreck is at about 110 fsw and the top is 105 fsw so it’s not a good multilevel dive. It takes six hours to drive there, a three-hour boat ride, all for 20 minutes of bottom time. There are more interesting wrecks in the area where you can get much more down time by doing a multilevel ending on top of the wreck.

Weather permitting; I’m going this weekend out of Carolina City with an LDS. Spectre, perhaps we’ll meet on a wreck. Last month the water was in the high sixties, glad to hear it’s into the seventies.

Mike

[Soggy]

MikeS once bubbled...
Last month the water was in the high sixties, glad to hear it’s into the seventies.


I was out of Murrells Inlet, SC. That's like 6 hrs south and I was 18 miles off shore. So, I don't know what Moorehead would be like. I was just offering up something in the relative vicinity.

[notabob]

I've been hearing some horrible reports about visibility in NC this year. Granted, it's one of those things that can change over a couple of days, but I've yet to hear a positive report about the vis. People have been saying 5-20ft... Anybody dove there recently who could dispell that evil rumor? Anyone? At least the water's warm :)

-Roman.

[Soggy]

The vis in South Carolina was good enough that I could see that the anchor line had snapped :)

I'd guess about 20-25 feet or so once you got below the green muck on the surface.

[notabob]

I was promised 60ft vis! I want my money back! Waaaaah!!! ;-0

[Soggy]

notabob once bubbled...
I was promised 60ft vis! I want my money back! Waaaaah!!! ;-0

We also had 3-4 seas with 6 ft swells up above and were diving right after a huge storm, so my experience may or may not be indicative.

[Brutus23]

I was down there the 28th of May, dove the Caribsea, the vis was 40 ft or so, water temps 76 surface and 72 at 90ft.

Side note, I dove with a group from Shark Diver Magazine that was doing a documentary on the Sand Tiger Sharks, alot of fun swimming with the sharks, even picked up a few teeth from the sand.

Safe Diving,
Brutus

[finstotheleft]

I was just there 6/13-14. Vis. was horrible at the USS Indra (5ft if that). Current and surge were pretty bad there. I had heard that vis. was better on the East side of Cape Lookout, around the CaribSea (15-20ft.), but the wind was whipping the waves up and we couldn't get over there. One of the guys at the lodge had said that on 6/12 they got around 30ft. vis., but that ended quickly. I was told to come back in July/Aug., when it is not unusual to see 100ft. vis.

[VaJames]

Spectre,

We are headed there tonight. I will reply to this post when we get back on Monday. We are going out with Discovery Diving. Do you know who you are headed out with??

James

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[Spectre]

VaJames once bubbled...
Do you know who you are headed out with??


Olympus. I should be down there sometime sunday.

[VaJames]

Spectre,

The temps is Morehead this weekend were in the low 70's. We dove the Papoose, the Aeolus, and the Indra and all three wrecks were in the low 70's. Vis is down to around 60ft on the Papoose and the Aeolus and the water is green right now not blue. The indra is an inshore wreck in only about 70ft or so of water and vis was 15ft max there. Other than that it was a beautiful weekend to dive. We have a max of 4ft seas all weekend and we had a surface current on the Papoose only. The rest of the dives we didn't even have to "hang" on the hang bar. Hope this helps you guys.

James
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[RiverRat]

I'm heading to NC to dive with Olympus Aug. 12-15. Anyone have any updated info on Vis, temps etc.? These are my first wreck dives so I hope we don't get blown out.........

[bankey]

I was down last week. 7/24-7/25

Schurz 40' viz 73 degrees at depth
Spar 30' viz 77 degrees
U352 60' viz 73 degrees
Aeolus 30' viz 75 degrees


the water temps were in the low 80's on the surface so there was a pretty good themocline. Especially on the sub and schurz. we were lucky this time the ocean was flat as a lake. Have a good time!

[RiverRat]

I was down last week. 7/24-7/25

Schurz 40' viz 73 degrees at depth
Spar 30' viz 77 degrees
U352 60' viz 73 degrees
Aeolus 30' viz 75 degrees


the water temps were in the low 80's on the surface so there was a pretty good themocline. Especially on the sub and schurz. we were lucky this time the ocean was flat as a lake. Have a good time!

Thanks for the update, I passed it on to my group, hope it holds out!