Venice Dive 8/1

[ReddogMP]

Anyone diving Venice this Saturday morning 8/1? I am looking to get back into the water, and would like to go this saturday.
Please let me know if anyone is going and would allow a tagalong. LOL!

Thanks.

 

[NorthPortDiver]

Yeah there is going to be a small group of us hitting Alhambra Saturday about 8:30am. There are 4 of us right now. Jodi mentioned she may have someone else coming also and my nephew may be joining us also possibly.

 

[sglake]

We will be there around 930 or 10...

 

[Fossilbabe]

Sound like you guys are going to have a blast. I will be diving with JoyfulLee she is coming down from up north. We booked our trip off the AristaKat for the weekend. Hopefully it going to be a great day for diving. Good luck everyone be safe. Take some pictures if you can and Sea Ya

 

[safyrewulfie]

Our group is going to be there around 830-9 lol so its gonna be interesting lol. Drop off loading will be appreciated lol. Im bringing water and gators. Yeah I m bringing the camera. Maybe I can find a Coke bottle to go with my pepsi bottle lol. And bringing frozen watermelon again. maybe I should grab someting salty....

 

[Bryan_FL]

I am interested in going as well. I am new to the area and haven't done any diving here yet. If anyone has any openings I'd appreciate a reply or pm. I have all my gear except tank and weights, so if I could get some advice as to where I could rent some.

Thanks,
Bryan

 

[safyrewulfie]

There are shops all along venice. I think dive quest or scuba quest. Check the phone book unforn I m not sure where they are. I have spare belts but not spare weights lol. We will be there for several hours so just come along and look for a bouy if we in the water already. We should be back up by noon and resting for a second dive. Sorry I cant help u with shops in venice. I only know my port charlotte ones.

 

[safyrewulfie]

Again anyone can come along we got plenty of people playing in the bubbles!! Sorry I didnt get back to u bryan. I passed out after being up for over 28 hrs. I had worked all thursday night then ran around all day Friday. By 7 pm I was pretty much useless lol.

 

[Bryan_FL]

It's quite alright. I got up around 7 this morning to see if anyone had replied and went back to bed lol. Didn't wanna drive down there from Ellenton without making contact with someone first. I think I'll see if I can get on that Monday charter with aristakat.

 

[NorthPortDiver]

Well the surface was perfect today and it held pretty much all day. Unfortunately the viz was not as nice. 3 - 4ft. I found 2 decent teeth one about 2.5" and the other around 2". I'll post pics when I finish cleaning them up. I saw several nice size flounder and a lot of what appeared to be crevalle jacks around the blocks. The best part was the huge grouper that was resting under one of the blocks. I was able to swim right up to him and pet him he was fine with that until I tried to grab hold of his tail. I'm not 100% positive but it appeared to be a large yellowfin grouper but I've always thought of them as being deep water fish. Just curious but is it legal to spearfish at the Alhambra blocks?