Dive Trip Report to:
Florida's Beaches!
Purpose:
To
Beach Dive Florida
for old wrecks, cannon, ships, bugs etc!
Date / Dive #:
Sunday, , Morning Dive. My Dive #
A. Dive Beach Location:
Beach Dive -
B. Conditions:
Visibility:
Seas:
Water Temp:
Skies:
Typical Florida Sunny Clear Blue Skies!!
Air Temp:
80's
C. Dive Information:
Depth & Time:
Me: Genesis Nitrox Dive Computer -
Air consumption:
Me:
Current:
Description:
Subject:
looked for you among a sea of dive flags
Date:
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 07:13:13 EDT
From:
FROGMANTJ@aol.com
To:
Irishman@sprynet.com
Vero was great! I got to Boiler wreck at about 8:30. I figured that I would
just launch there and meet you on your second dive. As soon as I hit the
beach I knew that I was going to have a problem finding you. I saw two or
three dive flags in the water already and several cars unloading gear as I
carried my kayak down to the beach. I checked out a few dive flags but as I
got closer, I didn't see you so I figured it was the wrong group.
Had the opportunity to explore reefs that I didn't get to before. About
50-100 yards beyond the wreck the reef line was pretty impressive. Lots of
stingrays, schools of Snook and I was engulfed by a school of jacks that
checked me out, went just to the edge of viz and turned around and gave me a
second look. I swapped tanks around 10:30 and went out until 11:45 (it took
me less than 10 minutes to come in from the reef, swap tanks and be back on
the reef. (10:27-10:36). At 11:45 I called it quits because, believe it or
not, there was a thermalcline (on the outer reefs the depth was around 20 -30
feet and cold!). The sun kept the water temp warmer in the shallows, once
deeper than 15-20 the temp dropped quite a bit.
Sorry I missed you, next time I'll try to get there earlier (I spent half an
hour looking for equipent I didn't even use).
Last Updated: 10-July-2002