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NC Coastal Dive Reports
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:49 pm Started the dive season right with a dive on the Aeolus followed by one on the Spar. NC weather conditions were good with the waves building a bit from earlier morning. Water temps 72/73 range with approx 50' visibility on both. Lots of marine life with only a mild port to starboard current on the Spar. This was my first chance to check out the repositioning of the Spar by last seasons hurricane. She is tilted to port with the working deck bow rail in the sand. Gives a very different appearance. Adds a new challenge to visiting my favorite underwater wheel house. Author: eastbayfe Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 2:03 pm Had a beautiful day on the water yesterday on the way to the Gill. Seas 1-2' all day and sunny weather. Temp on the Gill was 70 degrees top to bottom. Im not a great judge of vis but I could easily see divers on the bottom at 86' from the hang bar. Mate said he thought it was 70' of vis! It was my first visit to the Gill so I cant tell how it has faired over the years but I came away impressed with the size of the wreck and the many compartments to explore! The Hyde was covered in marine life as usual. The sand tigers have moved back in a I would say we saw roughly 10 of them compared to the one we saw a few weeks back. Vis was less the Gill roughly at 30' bu still a great dive. Temp 70 at the top, 68 on the bottom. Overall picture perfect day! Author: RamJackSeawall Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 7:54 pm 5/11/12 high tide around 1330ish. 73/72 on the bottom. 6-8'viz as always. Nothing new, nothing exciting. Good dive around 40 minutes. Got a little bored and just a touch chilly. I was in a 2/3 so not the best thermal protection. But then I have some natural insulation that helps. Overall good gear check/seasons first dive. Until next time- hopefully off shore. Author: DEBAY Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:10 am Went with an experienced group to the Box Wreck on the Atlantis IV. We had a nice ride out to the site and the return was very nice as well. Strong current on the dive site with some drop off at approx 50 ft.. First dive was a hand over hand pull from stern of our boat to the bottom but on the second dive the current had tamed down. Sea wave was approx 3-5 foot with a 6-8 second repeat. The current made me think of Hatteras conditions. The wreck has a high structure and the lee side of the wreck was a very good dive. We had 40 foot of visibility and the spearfishing guys had a good day. Water temp 72 degrees top to the bottom at approx 110 ft. Safe diving, Fireball Author: Fireballmo7 Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:03 pm The cinco de mayo dive went out almost as planned. The original group of divers that started it off foolishly canceled at almost the last minute. Some real divers filled in so we left the doc anyway and headed to the Proteus. The trip was into 3 to 4 foot head seas but we were still able to make 18kts as there was some interval between them. Not the best of rides but far from the worst. At Proteus we found 73.5 surface and cooler at depth with about 45 ft vis. Lots of sea life and a few Gags came on board. We then motored over to the British Splendour where the temp was one degree cooler but the vis actually a bit better and the seas dropped to 2 to 3. Here, the spearos on the boat came back with a cobia of about 35 to 40 lbs, several gags and a jack, putting us close to our daily limit for the groupers. Best find of the day were two builders plaques from the electric motors that have fallen out of the engine room. They are about 8x12 and cast with the builders name and the motor info. Beautiful finds that will clean up and be a great display. Photos will be on the web page once thye get cleaned up. The Hurricanes at the end of last season and the winter storms made two big changes on both wrecks. The Proteus stern has begun to collapse as the iconic steering quadrant that stood proud at the stern of the site has now fallen over towards the port side. At the Splendour, another large chunk of the stern hull plating was torn away and now lays off to the side in front of the crankshaft and the entire stern section seems to have settled another 5 feet or so. Salt water, storm energy and gravity will always win out as the Ocean takes her toll on these ships that are now 70 or more years under the sea. They will all eventually become rusty stains on the sandy bottom no matter what is done to try and protect them. So come on out diving now before it is too late! Author: Dive Hatteras Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:52 pm Couple pictures from Hyde.   Author: Steve_Campbell Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:41 pm Dove both of these with Diver Down Sunday. Vis was >20 and temp was 63*. Not too many fish around, but there was a sigting of a sunfish on the Indra. Author: RoadKing08
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