Post by surflung on May 8, 2016 7:42:50 GMT -8
Absolutely Fabulous... Again
Sunny Sky, 100+ ft Visibility, And Magnificent Terrain.
- We made 5 dives in Fortune Pond May 6-7. Had a great group of divers there: Rich Merten and Me, Sea Hunt Jerry and Chuck, Swimjim and Eric, and even Diver Don drove over from Marquette. Rich and I arrived first around 11:00 AM Friday and knew we were in for some great visibility when we could see the bottom 70 feet below at the end of the pier. Holy Cow it was clear.
- SwimJim dove his Divair and it performed beautifully. I dove my yellow hosed Royal Master Cyclone HPR (Jim calls these "Hot Daams") w/ my pretty yellow Twin 38s. My buddy Rich dove the DA-AquaMaster we rebuilt over the winter with the vintage yellow USD 72 and J-Valve he bought from Jerry... And it worked GREAT. DiverDon dove his DAAM with a vintage Stars and Stripes red white and blue 72 tank.
- We did dives from 30-60ft deep and some dives in the over 100 ft depths. With the brilliant sunlight, you could see a long ways even when you were down deep... Visibility was in the 100+ feet range. Eric and SwimJim did some tech dives with all of the redundant hook-ups and extra tanks slung... I think Eric may have had on 4-5 tanks on at least one of these dives! Rich and I were coming back from a dive, swimming along a ledge about 60 feet deep and we spotted SwimJim and Eric way down at the bottom of the ledge with their big double tanks and silvery bubbles. I think the word for such a site is "Surreal".
- The diving in Fortune Pond is really magnificent. Everytime I go I feel like I've flown (swam) over different underwater mountainous terrain and I can't wait to go back. We sit in the sun between dives, cook brats on the grill... And at night we go to Alice's Restaurant for nice meal. Hopefully we'll schedule another trip for June.
Sunny Sky, 100+ ft Visibility, And Magnificent Terrain.
- We made 5 dives in Fortune Pond May 6-7. Had a great group of divers there: Rich Merten and Me, Sea Hunt Jerry and Chuck, Swimjim and Eric, and even Diver Don drove over from Marquette. Rich and I arrived first around 11:00 AM Friday and knew we were in for some great visibility when we could see the bottom 70 feet below at the end of the pier. Holy Cow it was clear.
- SwimJim dove his Divair and it performed beautifully. I dove my yellow hosed Royal Master Cyclone HPR (Jim calls these "Hot Daams") w/ my pretty yellow Twin 38s. My buddy Rich dove the DA-AquaMaster we rebuilt over the winter with the vintage yellow USD 72 and J-Valve he bought from Jerry... And it worked GREAT. DiverDon dove his DAAM with a vintage Stars and Stripes red white and blue 72 tank.
- We did dives from 30-60ft deep and some dives in the over 100 ft depths. With the brilliant sunlight, you could see a long ways even when you were down deep... Visibility was in the 100+ feet range. Eric and SwimJim did some tech dives with all of the redundant hook-ups and extra tanks slung... I think Eric may have had on 4-5 tanks on at least one of these dives! Rich and I were coming back from a dive, swimming along a ledge about 60 feet deep and we spotted SwimJim and Eric way down at the bottom of the ledge with their big double tanks and silvery bubbles. I think the word for such a site is "Surreal".
- The diving in Fortune Pond is really magnificent. Everytime I go I feel like I've flown (swam) over different underwater mountainous terrain and I can't wait to go back. We sit in the sun between dives, cook brats on the grill... And at night we go to Alice's Restaurant for nice meal. Hopefully we'll schedule another trip for June.
