Thanks for the tip! Gonna have to check this out
I will be doing the Hole in the Wall dive with some of my buddies next week. This can be the most spectacular dive in the hemisphere, on the right day...some days it is just cool..other days it is beyond belief. I'll be doing this on Narcosis.
One thing that should be said....I was big on wanting to share the Goliath Grouper experience with divers all over....it is just too cool...wrecks like the Mispah, the Castor, and the Zion, are dives "most competent divers" will have a ball on, and will not be over their heads....
The Hole in the Wall is a different story....You can easily hit 150 doing this dive, if you stray just a hair off the ledge, because you see some lobster or something..and there is a lot of, "or something" on the Hole in the Wall dive.
This is a drift dive that makes diving Juno ledge, with what you think is a ripping current, a no current dive. To dive it in a reasonable way, you need to descend at over 100 feet per minute, 250 per minute is better still. This insures that when you are in the right place at the surface, when you hit bottom, it will still be the right bottom
This is an ultimate adventure dive, and one with more challenge than the majority of tech dives to 280 feet. George Irvine has said this is his favorite dive, and I will say that it is mine...but this is also a dive that could kill a diver without the experience or training for it.
Most boats will only take out divers with serious Tech credentials to dive the Hole in the Wall, and this needs to be the way it is.
If you have done plenty of tech, this is "THE Dive", as Chuckitall said. But I would not want to drive someone here that gets hurt, which is why I was not raving about the Hole in the Wall for a goliath Grouper dive.
