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I was wondering if the water is allways that blue. The clip says it was taken in June.
The other thing i wanted to know are there normaly as many skark as seen in the clip
i linked. Id like to dive the tarpon this year,and id like to know what time of the year has the best conditions.
I was wondering if the water is allways that blue. The clip says it was taken in June.
The other thing i wanted to know are there normaly as many skark as seen in the clip
i linked. Id like to dive the tarpon this year,and id like to know what time of the year has the best conditions.
I haven't been there in years, but the Tarpon is on the edge of the Gulf Stream and probably the water was that blue most of the time.
As for the sand tigers, yes, they're usually there. On one dive, a woman coming up from her dive as two of us were descending, stopped at about 60 feet and watched us as a pair of sand tigers longer than we were tall shadowed us for at least several minutes - as long as she watched. Neither of us knew it until we finished decom and climbed aboard the dive boat.
I haven't been there in years, but the Tarpon is on the edge of the Gulf Stream and probably the water was that blue most of the time.
As for the sand tigers, yes, they're usually there. On one dive, a woman coming up from her dive as two of us were descending, stopped at about 60 feet and watched us as a pair of sand tigers longer than we were tall shadowed us for at least several minutes - as long as she watched. Neither of us knew it until we finished decom and climbed aboard the dive boat.
Most of my diving has been in Newengland (green water) I looking foward to diving the Tarpon this season.
You might have a tough time getting a ride out there on a commercial dive boat unless you're willing to charter the whole boat. The Tarpon is in a seldom visited area, and when the boats do go out there, they're usually headed to the Proteus or British Splendour.
What about a trip in 2008? I'd go, but I don't have the experience level right now. But by the second half of next summer...with a nitrox course in the meantime...
I was wondering if the water is allways that blue. The clip says it was taken in June.
The other thing i wanted to know are there normaly as many skark as seen in the clip
i linked. Id like to dive the tarpon this year,and id like to know what time of the year has the best conditions.
Hey thats my video. Yes that video was taken in June 2005. The Tarpon is one of my favorite wrecks. The sand tigers make it a very cool dive. Ive only dove it in June so i couldnt tell you when the conditions are best.
Actually the Tarpon gets visited regularly by the Hatteras boats. We go there many times throughout the season and it is usually blue, but not always. The water is usually at its best from mid June through end of October, but conditions can and do change daily. Tarpon sits within a mile of the Proteus and the conditions are usually identical on the two wreck sites as far as current and viz goes. Both wrecks have the sharks, but more have been present at the Proteus during the past year for some reason. I did one Tarpon dive last summer and didn't see a single shark, next time there were at least 100, so it changes but who knows why.
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