mike_s
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A ScubaBoard Staff Message...
So... after preliminary discussions in another thread, and SupRbugman saying we needed a seperate thread for this, here's the Vortoberfest III (2007) Mega-dive planning thread
So let's talk dates first.
....October 2006
Su M Tu W Thu Fr Sat
....01 02 03 04 05 06
07 08 09 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
I think it was decided last year to do the same dates as last year. So that would be the weekend of Oct 13. But that could be changed if they change locations (see below).
Location:
There's been talk by several people of relocating the event from Vortex Springs to another location. Mostly due to people not wanting to dive Vortex that much and the increase of admission at Vortex to $32/day.
Destin, Gulf Shores/Orange Beach, and PCB St Andrews have been mentioned as locations. Destin is out pretty much because of lack of parking at the dive site (Jetties) and no place at the jetties to easily do a grill out.
The tides at St Andrews do not look favorable for any weekend in October either. (see tides below)
SupRbugman, can you post tides and location/site information for Gulf Shores/Orange Beach information? (Dive sites, tides, places to camp/stay such as Gulf State Park, etc?) This might be the favored "changed location" as it was sucessfull for the "Crab Grab" last year
So what are folks thoughts?????
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Tides for St. Andrew Bay Channel entrance starting with October 1, 2007.
Day High Tide Height
Day /Low Time Feet
Sa 6 High 6:18 AM 1.7
Sa 6 Low 4:22 PM 0.3
Su 7 High 7:27 AM 1.4
Su 7 Low 4:16 PM 0.6
Sa 13 Low 7:48 AM 0.2
Sa 13 High 10:13 PM 1.8
Su 14 Low 8:44 AM 0.2
Su 14 High 10:52 PM 1.8
Sa 20 High 3:43 AM 1.7
Sa 20 Low 2:46 PM 0.1
Su 21 High 4:57 AM 1.6
Su 21 Low 3:07 PM 0.2
Sa 27 Low 7:30 AM -0.3
Sa 27 High 9:47 PM 2.1
Su 28 Low 8:52 AM -0.3
Su 28 High 10:45 PM 2.1
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