Dive reports with beach/weather conditions

[Rickelpickel]

Boneyard: 9am-12 2dives. temp: 68 on surface, 65 on bottom.. Viz: 1st dive 5' 2nd dive 5'-10' Little to no current. patchy silt to none. you could see the bottom 15' off the bottom... Lookin great out there! 55 megs found in total 2-3 nice makos one huge sperm whale tooth... Largest megs were a little over 3.5" but averaged 2". pics on pic page!

 

[Aristakat]

Water temp last two days has been 66 on surface and 61 on the bottom.
Vis 3-5 ft
winds Sse 15-20 knts

 

[Rickelpickel]

We had 65 on the bottom sat and 65 on bottom sun as well.. Viz sat was 5-8' but sun was 10-15' no thermocline that i could tell... 2'-3'ers Sun,.... but with the sun out it was awesome hunting... 4.25"er was found on the boat today as well.. 2 nice rear teeth were found yesterday. pics on pic page...

 

[Ted55]

Sun. Mar.13th 12:00PM
Site Location: Manasota Key
Water Temp: 68
Visibility: 2 ft. down to 2 inches
Wind direction and strength: offshore, increasing throughout morning
Surf: 1ft. to 2ft.
Presence of drift algae: heavy

Attempted a fossil shore dive from Manasota Key. Vis was 2 ft. near shore but progressively worsened the further out we went. It was my 12 year old daughter's first salt water dive, I called it after 20 minutes when the vis was near zero. The water was much warmer than expected. No teeth or evidence of fossil material, however, we didn't get out very far. If the weather improves, may try again later.

 

[Rickelpickel]

Did 2 dives sun.. #1 Manasota Key area... depth 27' 62 deg Time:900 calm Viz: was very murky on bottom, 2' of viz .... lost most of the light... found megs and makos tho.. #2 went back up to Venice boneyard. depth 23' 62 deg Time:1130 1' chop as wind shifted south, better viz: maybe 4-5' in areas. found a nice cheek tooth... pics on pic page.

 

[Rickelpickel]

Had a group out today... Did 2 dives.... #1 Depth:28' Viz: 10-12' Temp: 63 deg #2 Depth: 24' Viz: 10-15' Temp:63 deg Found one nice sperm whale tooth... some smaller megs a bunch of partials and one nice 2" mako.... Water was flat enough to skip rocks on all day!..... Week outlook looks awesome!

 

[knives]

I was out yesterday with Megalodon Charters .....2 dives , viz was about 10 ft . water temp 18 C or 65 F , very nice dive ..

 

[Rickelpickel]

2 dives thur the 17 th. viz 10-15' @ 26fsw temp 63 water nice and flat till about 230 then north winds picked up and was 2' seas...

 

[2TH DIVR]

3/18/11
Service Club
Time 3:30 pm
Seas <1'
Wind W @ 10
Vis 1'-10'
Water temp 66
Finds small teeth

 

[dkramer]

Did S. Brohard blocks this AM. Incoming tide, temp 68, viz 5 - 7 ft. Max depth 16 ft. Found a whale vert in the middle of the reef.