joe8mofo
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I will be at Jocassee on Sunday Morning
Lake Jocassee update
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redwing19
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you lucky son of a gun! i can't wait until you have kids and your weekends feature ball games and chucky cheese!!
OP
krawlings
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joe8mofo
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Have you considered for a moment that desiring to have my weekends free is why I don't have kids?
joe8mofo
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I hope you have good viz . Are you going to the wall or are you going to dive the ramp? Tony and myself are going to Loch Low Minn this week end . Something differant , not the same thing . You should have good weather . No thunder storms , warm surface int.npatrol: and all In joy
Loch low was a consideration but it is further and less warm than Jocassee; my wife likes warmer water. I am interested in the beach with the underwater tectonic rift.
I second that! If I would have started diving ten years ago I still might be single with no kids!
Everything I do has to be planned weeks in advanced!
I am also praying my wife doesn't read this post!
My wife only wants clear water and thinks Jocassee sucks.:shocked2: Don't miss the fissure. I swam over it twice before I actually found it. I know a bunch of people are suppose to be going out with Bill from Dive.Dive..Dive in Lawerenceville on Sunday!
I am happily married to a non-diver. Only one set of gear to buy, a chance to get out of the house, some of the guys I dive with buy the beer... still, it is not too difficult to drop diving when my wife wants to hang out. She is prettier than any one I dive with...
joe8mofo
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So we left early in the morning and arrived at around 9AM. We were the first car to park there, but minutes later other vehicles arrived. We geared up and chatted with a couple people and hit the water.
Dive 1:
In water at 9:54 AM
Max Depth 85ft
Lowest Temperature: 71 F
EAN22 and EAN25
We headed down the boat ramp and then cut-over to the right to the cove over there. We found some bass and bluegill, several trees and an old road bed. We headed back over to the platforms. At one of the platform there have been photos attached to the ends of them, holographic photos (in preparation for Halloween I am sure). One photo had come detached from its frame due to the water's impact on the glue. We passed 1 solo diver who was in a red dry-suit and was slinging what looked to be a 30 cf bottle.
We headed to the trampoline frame and noted immediately that visibility was screwed due to someone kicking up some heavy particulate. We arrived at the boat and there was a school of thousands of recently spawned fish and 3 bass were patrolling the school. After observing the school and trying to get a photo or 2 of them, we decided to leave the boat. We headed northeast and noticed a large cloud of silt billowing out on our direction, so we adjusted course and headed more north. We hit the airplane wing and visibility was excellent; you could CLEARLY see the toilet from the airplane wing (so vis was about 30-40 feet). We headed to the toilet and then to the buoyancy PVC. We headed shallower to the bones family and noted a new snake which had been added. We then made our way north and then east and slowly made our way to shallower water to look for fish. We slowly made our way back south in the shallows observing the bass and bluegill. We exited the water with 900 PSI left in our LP 95s
Dive 2:
Surface Interval: 1:28
In water: 12:28 PM
Max Depth: 92 ft
Lowest Temperature: 68 F
Run Time: 53 minutes
EAN29
We hit the water and headed towards the guardrail in 22 feet of water. We stumbled upon a newly created graveyard which is to the left of the guardrail. We hung out there and saw the re-breather guy. We then headed towards the bones family and then headed towards the forest from there. We went through the forest and stayed at a depth of 85 feet. We observed 2 catfish in the trees, which was quite surprising. Visibility of course was less on this dive at depth. After 10-14 minutes in the forest we exited and hung out around 60 feet for a while, we then hit the bones family again and explored the boat near there. We headed back to the cemetery and read the tombstones, which is fun to do while in the water. We went to the first platform to grab my reel and flag and slowly made our way up the ramp. We surfaced to meet the people who were assembling the cemetery, apparently they had been working on this for a little while now. We surfaced with 1200 psi in the LP95s.
The people who arrived just after us appeared to be a dive club from a college, and they were the ones responsible for destroying visibility at the 60 ft boat. During our SI there was a dive class in the water and I assume they contributed to the bad vis conditions at depth. Granted I have seen an AOW diver kick up the largest silt cloud I have seen at a depth of 90 ft due to new equipment (wearing gloves for the first time) and a bit of narcosis, but is there really a reason to pass people who cannot hold their buoyancy?
Dive 1:
In water at 9:54 AM
Max Depth 85ft
Lowest Temperature: 71 F
EAN22 and EAN25
We headed down the boat ramp and then cut-over to the right to the cove over there. We found some bass and bluegill, several trees and an old road bed. We headed back over to the platforms. At one of the platform there have been photos attached to the ends of them, holographic photos (in preparation for Halloween I am sure). One photo had come detached from its frame due to the water's impact on the glue. We passed 1 solo diver who was in a red dry-suit and was slinging what looked to be a 30 cf bottle.
We headed to the trampoline frame and noted immediately that visibility was screwed due to someone kicking up some heavy particulate. We arrived at the boat and there was a school of thousands of recently spawned fish and 3 bass were patrolling the school. After observing the school and trying to get a photo or 2 of them, we decided to leave the boat. We headed northeast and noticed a large cloud of silt billowing out on our direction, so we adjusted course and headed more north. We hit the airplane wing and visibility was excellent; you could CLEARLY see the toilet from the airplane wing (so vis was about 30-40 feet). We headed to the toilet and then to the buoyancy PVC. We headed shallower to the bones family and noted a new snake which had been added. We then made our way north and then east and slowly made our way to shallower water to look for fish. We slowly made our way back south in the shallows observing the bass and bluegill. We exited the water with 900 PSI left in our LP 95s
Dive 2:
Surface Interval: 1:28
In water: 12:28 PM
Max Depth: 92 ft
Lowest Temperature: 68 F
Run Time: 53 minutes
EAN29
We hit the water and headed towards the guardrail in 22 feet of water. We stumbled upon a newly created graveyard which is to the left of the guardrail. We hung out there and saw the re-breather guy. We then headed towards the bones family and then headed towards the forest from there. We went through the forest and stayed at a depth of 85 feet. We observed 2 catfish in the trees, which was quite surprising. Visibility of course was less on this dive at depth. After 10-14 minutes in the forest we exited and hung out around 60 feet for a while, we then hit the bones family again and explored the boat near there. We headed back to the cemetery and read the tombstones, which is fun to do while in the water. We went to the first platform to grab my reel and flag and slowly made our way up the ramp. We surfaced to meet the people who were assembling the cemetery, apparently they had been working on this for a little while now. We surfaced with 1200 psi in the LP95s.
The people who arrived just after us appeared to be a dive club from a college, and they were the ones responsible for destroying visibility at the 60 ft boat. During our SI there was a dive class in the water and I assume they contributed to the bad vis conditions at depth. Granted I have seen an AOW diver kick up the largest silt cloud I have seen at a depth of 90 ft due to new equipment (wearing gloves for the first time) and a bit of narcosis, but is there really a reason to pass people who cannot hold their buoyancy?
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joe8mofo:
Re guy in red suit: that was me
Re Silt Masters:
That's what I was thinking. It was like a wall of chocolate milk. I saw some of them crashing onto the platform as if that's how they were taught to do it. I didn't bother trying to get to the deeper, clearer water as I figured they had been there too. I just found some clearer shallow water and practised. I don't believe they've ever been told to stay off the bottom.
joe8mofo
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The deeper water is so much nicer though, I spoke with them and they werent going anywhere deeper than 60 feet as they were "open water certified."
Open-water gives you a recommended depth of 60 feet...... I am open water certified and I definitely have experience well-beyond the recommendation, but with such poor buoyancy control you wouldn't want them anywhere deeper anyways.
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