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NC Coastal Dive Reports
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 10:58 pm O K, O K I was asked "why haven't you posted it yet?"............... I was gonna let someone else do it. Last Saturday we had 2 really really good dives on the Proteus diving with Dave Sommers on the Lions Paw out of Hatteras. I was fortunate enough to be pulling mate duty. 70 degrees and about 70 feet of vis on the bottom. You could say we had a bit of good luck. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... tif_t=like Rebreather divers Alan Russell and Charlie Bulloss recovered this gem. It took 2 long dives and one bounce dive for them to pull it off and some real real cool headed lift bag work by Capt. Dave but it they found a second Proteus bell. Here's a few shots of the diving. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater Author: wanchesemhc Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 6:16 pm Started the season with the good luck of great conditions. Went out on Captains Lady with the first dive on the Papoose. Great vis of approx 60' or more with water temps at 70. Best visibility I've ever had on this wreck. Poked around inside the hull break and swam the aft stern section. Always a favorite wreck to explore. I noticed a number of really plump lion fish ready for the taking for the upcoming tournament. Next stop was the popular Spar wreck. Temps were a cool 68 with minimal current. Viz was great as well but the main attraction was the number of sand tigers off both sides of the bow section. I started to count but gave up. Some of these were the largest I've seen. My dive buddy got some great close up shots near the sand. Most were swiimming low not far off of the bottom. Lots of familiar dive boats at the scene since conditions have been good here. Author: eastbayfe Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 10:49 pm Plan A was to show up at the dock a bit early to go dive the dredge/stone in 3 ft seas with Aquatic Safaris on ASII. Then the forecast improved to 2 ft seas. As they were putting my gear on the ASII Paul informed me there was one slot open for the Rosin and the forecast had improved to 1 ft seas. I had a divable mix. A quick transfer of gear and it was off to the Rosin. Couple of NC Divers were on board so I dove with them. Seas were 1 ft most of the day. Actually calmer than that for the SI. Showers disappeared and the sun came out. Some dolphins greated us part way. Water at the Rosin was a deep deep blue. No thermocline. Water was in the 70s from top to bottom. At 108 ft I was showing 71 degrees. Mild current on top and along the wreck. Easy to stay out of it if you wanted. There was a slight cloudiness to the water so viz was only 40-50 ft. My first Rosin dive but apparently a little below typical Rosin viz. Number of different tropicals. Large and small queen angels. Butterfly fish. Goatfish. Several others. One sandy and a large ray. Number of slipper lobster were taken. The Rosin is a nice wreck to dive. It is easy to navigate. It is broken up but it varies as you go along it. One area called the cathedral gives a nice long spacious swim through full of fish. Sort of like steel rafters with no roof. Definitely worth a second visit. Awesome weather, good companionship and dive buddies, great dive site.      Author: Steve_Campbell Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:38 pm The fish I saw was a striped burrfish. To appreciate this photo you need to undertand that I had to bend the camera around a large piece of metal and shoot without even knowing if the desired fish was in the viewfinder all the time dealing with surge. The other is a tube anemone.   Author: Steve_Campbell Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:17 pm After getting blown out on Saturday I got on a Liberty Ship trip on the 28th at 10 AM. The Hyde leaving earlier looked tempting but I was too tired to get up at 4something and drive from Raleigh. 3 ft or so seas. Partly cloudy. Water temps were 59 at the bottom. Viz was 10 ft. Clear to 5 and could see somewhat at 10. Lots of the usual black sea bass, small sheepshead, pinfish, slippery dicks, toadfish, one large porgy. Under the debri saw a procupinefish. Also another that was either a balloonfish or a striped burrfish. Number of nice tube anemones. A few sea spiders. HYDE: Hyde boat came in at the same time we were unloading. They saw 3 sandies which is a bit early but made for happy divers. Some said viz was 30ft. Author: Steve_Campbell Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:02 am So, just wandering what everyone else does. I typically tip the DM $10 per tank for good service and expect him to share accordingly to anyone that deserves it. What do you do? Author: RoadKing08 Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:26 am Water temp was 51* with about 15ft vis. Not any large life, but a lot of sea bass and some bait fish. Sea Stars and Sea Cucumbers everywhere. Author: RoadKing08
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