Tampico_ED
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Saturday around 2:20PM we gathered (Dive Club of Rhode Island) for the first dive of the season. Nearly 10 divers showed up mostly dry divers. Thanks RED for the invite. Originally the dive was schedule to start from Beavertail, but conditions were not that great. So people headed to the Fort. This was my third real dive in the Fort; so I was really excited. For some divers, this really was the first dive of the year. We headed to the deep side of the wall. We stayed into a team of four Red, Steve, Dave, and myself. Knowing, we would not stay down very long since we had a wet diver in our group.We gave the thumb down signal; we stayed close to the wall. Lot of lobster, crabs, star fish. Visibility was not that great only 7ft. But other divers reported that passing over 60ft visibility opened up to 20ft. If I recall correctly we hit 50 ft and water temperature was 41oF. Everything went smooth after 39-bottom time we end the dive. Great smiles and good mood was set in for the rest of the year.
Ed
Ed