BradnerBoy
Contributor
We were VERY pleasantly surprised at the vis afforded us on the incoming tide yesterday...not to mention the awesome weather. As an added bonus, when we began our dive, aside from the Navy diving outside the park boundary, we were the only two people in the water.
You could have skied on Howe Sound yesterday morning, so we took a leisurely surface swing out to the Nakaya and dropped down to 67'. You could pretty much make out the bottom a few feet under the surface, once your eyes adjusted. And "finding" the Nakaya, well, let's just say we didn't have to look too hard.
The poor girl has certainly seen better days and I'm not sure how much longer that port side is going to hold up. I haven't been down to see her in a few months, but I can definitely notice she's degraded.
After a counter-clockwise circumnavigation from the starboard stern, Claus spotted a decent sized octo who was inside what appeared to be a rolled piece of laminate material, not metal.
We then took a heading over to the Granthall, which took us over the small "debris field" about 50' from the Nakaya. There's the large, square, steel object that sits about 5' high. Always wondered what that is? Anyhow, poked around for an octo, but no one was home, so we continued up-slope towards the Granthall.
As we slowly ascended up to about 35', you could see some thin layers containing minor cloudiness, but if you stayed close to the bottom, even at 35', the via was still very good.
We ended up coming upon the concrete structures ahead and to the right of the Granthall, missing her bow by about 30', but when we realized where we were and turned to the right...there she was! You could easily make out the entire bow, from bottom to top and easily half way down her starboard side. In addition, we could see the jungle gym and all of the concrete structures...of course, the large, white plumose were like lamps shining everywhere. Floating there, being able to see all this, was somewhat eerie in that, in all the dives I've done at Porteau, I've never had that perspective. I guess I've never been there with vis greater than 20' or so.
We circumnavigated the Granthall, cruised past the JG, found, then followed the fire hose past the Centennial (again, for the first time I could see the entire vessel) and made our way back along the sand, up the "hill" and continued underwater to within about 5' of the steps. We surfaced at about 60 minutes with big grins on our faces.
We recollected the dive sitting in Ya Ya's at Horseshoe Bay having a couple pints, some seafood chowder and wishing the bar tender would dress that way every day and not just for Halloween.
Good times, indeed.
You could have skied on Howe Sound yesterday morning, so we took a leisurely surface swing out to the Nakaya and dropped down to 67'. You could pretty much make out the bottom a few feet under the surface, once your eyes adjusted. And "finding" the Nakaya, well, let's just say we didn't have to look too hard.
The poor girl has certainly seen better days and I'm not sure how much longer that port side is going to hold up. I haven't been down to see her in a few months, but I can definitely notice she's degraded.
After a counter-clockwise circumnavigation from the starboard stern, Claus spotted a decent sized octo who was inside what appeared to be a rolled piece of laminate material, not metal.
We then took a heading over to the Granthall, which took us over the small "debris field" about 50' from the Nakaya. There's the large, square, steel object that sits about 5' high. Always wondered what that is? Anyhow, poked around for an octo, but no one was home, so we continued up-slope towards the Granthall.
As we slowly ascended up to about 35', you could see some thin layers containing minor cloudiness, but if you stayed close to the bottom, even at 35', the via was still very good.
We ended up coming upon the concrete structures ahead and to the right of the Granthall, missing her bow by about 30', but when we realized where we were and turned to the right...there she was! You could easily make out the entire bow, from bottom to top and easily half way down her starboard side. In addition, we could see the jungle gym and all of the concrete structures...of course, the large, white plumose were like lamps shining everywhere. Floating there, being able to see all this, was somewhat eerie in that, in all the dives I've done at Porteau, I've never had that perspective. I guess I've never been there with vis greater than 20' or so.
We circumnavigated the Granthall, cruised past the JG, found, then followed the fire hose past the Centennial (again, for the first time I could see the entire vessel) and made our way back along the sand, up the "hill" and continued underwater to within about 5' of the steps. We surfaced at about 60 minutes with big grins on our faces.
We recollected the dive sitting in Ya Ya's at Horseshoe Bay having a couple pints, some seafood chowder and wishing the bar tender would dress that way every day and not just for Halloween.
Good times, indeed.
