There aren’t reefs in Panama City but there’s a lot of sunken ships for diving that are all 50-95 ft. We go there a lot from Atlanta. Check out Panama City diving
The oriskany is in Pensacola so about another 2 hours away. It’s debatably worth it if if diving a single tank as depth will...
I dove there in 9/21 and they had added more rocks (or maybe were wrapping up as they still had the barge with the crane on it out there). There was still a gap by the kiddie pool to get out and I didnt notice significant fishing lines. Unless I dove before they finished the change..
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# 23 to me seems like a rip off of Chris and Chrissy Rouse tragedy on U-853. 200 ft down - Son trapped under part of wreck - coast guard helicopter not leaving the deceased father to possible save the son etc.
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I dive there 4/6 and the swim through was there but a barge was there filling it in. The guide from Panama City Diving said the swim through would be no more.
We’ll be in PCB and not sure if we can time going on a boat so we were looking at diving the jetties. Has anyone been since they dredged it in Sept-Oct?
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If the rental doesn’t have a hitch receiver to put the hitch box in then carry it with you in a dive canister or something like this. https://www.amazon.com/Sony-DSCP100-DSCP150-Digital-Cameras/dp/B0000996BT
Hitch key box
https://www.amazon.com/HitchSafe-HS7000T-HS7000-Key-Vault/dp/B000I66JEM
Or you can get a dive canister /camera case that can go to depth if you’re planning on carrying a plb etc.
I have a frog skin suit ( Probe Wetsuits Australia : Surfing Wetsuits : Diving Wetsuits : Mens & Womens Wetsuits) that looks to be the same design and I wear 10 lbs in it vs 12 lbs in my 3 mm When diving in salt water.
I was down there the last week of Dec 2019 and we dive Vortex Springs (45-60 min away) as we only have 5mm and the gulf was showing in the low 60s if I recall.
Looking where you’re from, you might have gear to support those temps.
As for dive shops I used in the summer, I’d recommend...
They’re called space blankets. I carry that , a whistle, and mirror along with my plb in a LM case as well. Might start throwing my keys in there too.
Apologies for the slight derail, what kind of strobe do you use?
My wife has one. We’ve only used it 4-5 dives so far with no issue. Her mentality is she has insurance on her phone so she’s ok with the risk of a leak etc. I don’t have phone insurance so I’d get an older phone to use.
I have sympathy for them. I was supposed to go to Roatan on 3/14 (feels like months ago) and we didn’t feel like a concrete no go until morning of 3/12. Things didn’t seem to go to overdrive until then.
We were supposed to go to AKR on Sat and rescheduled for late July. We made the decision on Thursday and it seems like the right call every passing day. So far only out 230 more for flight cost differences.
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