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I am going to be unable to get there this weekend but hope someone will post the water temps? I think last report was 50-ish? Should begin warming up slowly but surely!
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tddfleming
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Thanks for temp report!
Wow, 30' viz? I would have expected more the way people carry on about the viz!
Wow, 30' viz? I would have expected more the way people carry on about the viz!
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Honestly I have never observed much more than 30 foot of viz in that lake, even in the dead of winter and being the only one in the water.
MDWreckdiver
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I went last Saturday, the 19th. It was a beautiful day 70 degrees. The water temp was 49 on the surface and 45 at the plane. I think all of us (maybe dozen folks) were diving dry.
The dock is a mess- I would reccomend steering clear of it.
The dock is a mess- I would reccomend steering clear of it.
BobbyT22
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I agree with you, usually it does not exceed 30 feet or so. But there are exceptions. I dive there solo often, and as I game I use landmarks to gage the vis. Two things I noticed when I was there earlier this month: I could clearly see the far end of the deep bus from near the tail of the plane, and I could barely make out the surface from along the cliffs and track my bubbles most of the way to the surface. BUT....those conditions are extremely rare. It is very easy to stir the lake up...it is not that big. It was the first day of the season and I was the first diver, so nobody had been stirring up the site for weeks, and Kevin was just starting his work on the dock. If the lake just sits, and the temps are cold, everything really settles out and vis can get particularly good. But add just a few divers and that changes. Hell, my buddy and I probably screwed it up for everyone else just by diving ourselves
. I don't even dive there in the summer or on weekends, as all the students make it not worth the drive. Anyway, those are my observations, for whatever they are worth.
I'm going to Rawlings the first weekend in April w/ The Dive Shop. Water temps in the upper 40s / low 50s right? On the verge of dry or semi-dry.
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