A dive buddy in Savannah

[pond skipper]

Hello, New to Scuba Board and hope to make a few friends here. I posted in the introductions but was also told to post here in the southeastern region. I dive several times a week in some rivers close to Savannah for fossils/artifacts. I dive mostly solo from a canoe or kayak but I also have a small boat if I bring a buddy. The water is dark with the usual low vis, but the rewards are always worthwhile. I dive year round and go to Florida for short dive trips in the winter. It would be great to meet some local divers with similar interests.

[Lee Taylor]

Hello Pond Skipper,

I have interest in diving the rivers of Savannah for sharks teeth. I am a collector. It is just a hobby for me. I dive the Cooper River here in Charleston SC. I have been diving the Cooper for over ten years so the Savannah Rivers have my interest. I got down to Venice Florida (shark tooth capital of the world) this past summer. I hope to make a trip to Venice next summer also.

I cannot do any diving at the current time (long story). I will look you up come springtime. Are there any river dive boat ops in Savannah?

Here is a reference for you:

Megateeth.com Museum quality Megalodon teeth and fossil shark teeth (http://www.megateeth.com/)

The website belongs to Naui+15694. (Bill)

ScubaBoard - View Profile: naui 15694 (http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/members/naui+15694.html)

I met Bill at a fossil show here in Charleston.

Maybe we can all hook up and do some black water diving and/or Venice offshore diving next summer.

[pond skipper]

Lee, No charters for fossils here but there are some boats that do beach fossil hunts and dolphin tours. I dive year round so look me up if you get in this area, I dive solo but am always interested in bringing along a buddy. I have a small but capable dive boat for this. Hope to meet you soon.

[mwm]

Check out blackbeardsscubaclub.com

[Lee Taylor]

Skipper,

Sounds like a possibility. Have dove the Cooper probably over 100 times. Have been times when it was just my dive pal Phil and myself. For years we use to use his extra wide jon boat. Now days we use his deck boat. When there is just two of us we leave a dive flag waving above the boat. We did have one extremely bad incident involving a very intoxicated, theiving, young man, out with daddy's very large expensive boat. It did not end well.

When its just the two of us, we crab upstream on the bottom in front of the anchor. We then end the dive and drift back to the boat. The alligators are generally accomodating but I steer way clear of them. Some of the humans in the boats are far more dangerous than the alligators.