I chatted with my roommate last night (after he got back from his latest week away for work) and he said that he would be down around Ft Lauderdale on wednesday and once he had done his work there, that he might stay thursday and friday to dive a bit. I had previously booked off friday for another trip that fell through and after working a little this weekend, i might think of leaving early on thursday and keeping my day off on friday to go down to the SE coast to do a little diving. This might make up for some of the dive time missed due to the hurricanes and so as long as conditions are ok i would be looking to get in a few dives before the weekend. I also might be picking up some tanks off a guy who lives in Boca - just another reason to put this trip together and allows me sunday to try them out in a safe lake before really diving with them.
So my preliminary thoughts are to travel down on thursday afternoon, try to make a late afternoon maybe and a night dive (i was wondering what thoughts on Commercial pier?), then friday i would just hit a few shoreline areas (i guess most people are working though - maybe i'll go with my roommate who knows) for a couple of dives that day.
It looks like conditions are slowly getting better on the coast according to the 10/9 dives off hibiscus, are there still chances of rip currents? Have the waves settled down now - so viz can clear up?
Saturday it might be Bradenton with Chuck, not sure of anyone else yet, sunday at Lk Denton with the new doubles - i can handle 4 days diving in a row
So who is up for any dives thursday or friday?? I might stump for a boat dive, but cant be sure quite yet, more than likely though if the viz looks blown out.
So my preliminary thoughts are to travel down on thursday afternoon, try to make a late afternoon maybe and a night dive (i was wondering what thoughts on Commercial pier?), then friday i would just hit a few shoreline areas (i guess most people are working though - maybe i'll go with my roommate who knows) for a couple of dives that day.
It looks like conditions are slowly getting better on the coast according to the 10/9 dives off hibiscus, are there still chances of rip currents? Have the waves settled down now - so viz can clear up?
Saturday it might be Bradenton with Chuck, not sure of anyone else yet, sunday at Lk Denton with the new doubles - i can handle 4 days diving in a row
So who is up for any dives thursday or friday?? I might stump for a boat dive, but cant be sure quite yet, more than likely though if the viz looks blown out.