I have personally been to 126 ft several times at MT Storm in the trench out from the deep platform. It's dark but vis was for the most part decent. I have had as much as twenty feet of clearer water while doing some planned solo deco dives in it at the bottom.
Is there anything worth seeing in the trench? I've never been past the 90' platform before, and other than the Santa Claus, I've never heard of anything else down there.
Water temps of 80 degrees. The silt on the bottom in the trench is at least five feet deep. We measured it trying to set up a deep nav course a few years back. When the power plant turned mgmt over to WVa DNR everyone except boaters got screwed. Including the local businesses. It's whyI go to Ohio for deep.stuff now. Or Erie. it was a totally unnecessary knee jerk reaction. A little understanding and a few dollars spent on a bulldozer and some sand would have solved it and made everyone happy.
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For those unfamiliar with the situation: local regulations ban swimming, diving, and boating in the same section of the lake. So there aren't supposed to be boats in the scuba diving area, or diving off the boat dock, etc.
However, the only good, easy, & public access point to the water is via the boat docks. And there's no local swimming pool. So there were always kids (and adults) playing on and around the docks, with the parents turning a blind eye. DNR caught them, freaked out a bit, and closed the lake to everyone - including divers (even though we'd been playing by the rules)
Understandably, that annoyed a lot of people. Unless you want to go ice diving, there aren't a lot of good year-round places to dive in the area. And the local dive shops had been using it for their check out dives for years. Plus, as I understand it, there'd never been a complaint or citation issued to a diver. So there were some hard feelings when we got caught in the crossfire.
But its open again, and there's one or more dive shops there . . . pretty much every weekend.
