What is your favourite local diving spot? We see a lot of images of the picture perfect reefs and most beautiful wrecks waters has to offer, but we can't dive those all the time. What is your favourite diving place that you find yourself over and over again and what is the charm that you find in it? Post images if possible!
I'll start with pictures from Kaupinoja, Tampere, Finland.
The entrance to water is right next to a water plant that purifies drinking water from lake for nearby towns. There are multiple massive concrete water pipes that are approx 1.5m / 5ft diameter, smaller plastic pipes and old wooden pipeline that was build 1928. You can also find a small sailboat wreck and wooden bunker like structures. There are only a few fish and the water has a lot of tannin so it's reddish brown in color. Visibility ranges between 1-7m / 3-23ft and sunlight doesn't penetrate to bottom below 5m / 15 ft.
Somehow I find myself there a lot more often than other even clearer lakes. I did my first open water dives there when I was getting my OWD and remember thinking that I'll never return to this black soup after I get my cert. But as I've dived more I find it to have many interesting things in it. My latest dive there was today at 1C/34F water that was starting to freeze over, but I just had to go so I could post images of the wooden pipes
Wooden intake pipeline from 1928
Edit: Decided to remove two of the images that weren't mine, may add more if i can collect some from dive buddies
I'll start with pictures from Kaupinoja, Tampere, Finland.
The entrance to water is right next to a water plant that purifies drinking water from lake for nearby towns. There are multiple massive concrete water pipes that are approx 1.5m / 5ft diameter, smaller plastic pipes and old wooden pipeline that was build 1928. You can also find a small sailboat wreck and wooden bunker like structures. There are only a few fish and the water has a lot of tannin so it's reddish brown in color. Visibility ranges between 1-7m / 3-23ft and sunlight doesn't penetrate to bottom below 5m / 15 ft.
Somehow I find myself there a lot more often than other even clearer lakes. I did my first open water dives there when I was getting my OWD and remember thinking that I'll never return to this black soup after I get my cert. But as I've dived more I find it to have many interesting things in it. My latest dive there was today at 1C/34F water that was starting to freeze over, but I just had to go so I could post images of the wooden pipes
Wooden intake pipeline from 1928
Edit: Decided to remove two of the images that weren't mine, may add more if i can collect some from dive buddies