A brief report on conditions off shore NC:

Friday, 3 June - Discovery Diving - Capt's Lady
     U-352 - Water temp 68F at surface, 72F on sub; vis - 20 feet
             1+ knot current
     Indra - Water temp 68F; vis - 2 feet
             0 current

**  Powerful storm at Hatteras on Thursday 2 June produced 60+ mph
winds gusts resulting in swells and reduced visability well into
Friday.

Saturday, 4 June - Discovery Diving - Sea Quest II
     Papoose - Two dives. Water temp 68F; vis - 50 feet
               0.5 knot current

5 mm wetsuit and hood is still suggested.  Papoose was wonderful!

Dave--

Please be advised that I check and approve every post due to the fact I
want to keep the spams down if at all possible if you done a dive
lately.
Please post a little report on it and any current   conditions, also
any trip away would be nice and please post pictures if you have them
thanks

ONLY SHORT TIME

http://ags-explorer.com/

Hello group,

I live on the Outer Banks (Northern Outer Banks for you Emerald Isle
people!!)  Nags Head/Kitty Hawk area.  I have tons of scuba gear
(even have two underwater scooters to get to the "just off the
beach" wrecks nearby, but no regular scuba buddy.

Whenever somebody gets my way and wants to go play, drop me a line.

JacksonVegas@...  put scuba in the subject!!

Thanks!!!

Jason

Glad to have Joined,

It has been 8-9 years since I last dove NC.  I started in the late
70's and primarily dove NC wrecks until about 1990.  I was curious
as to the state of the Papoose, John D. Gill and 352.  These were
pretty intact wrecks last time I went.

I am getting back into diving and would be interested in any
opportunities off NC.

Thanks

Fred

Hi all don't noone seem to be posting and activity seems to slacked
off, so with winter months ahead thought we might try to find ways
to  make this little more activity !!!
maybe monthy   new letter not  sure allot of poeple might consider it
spam.
any way my recent news  have had serveral dives off coast this
months  good weather visability been anyware from  20 to as high as
80 feet temps been pretty much 70's
lots of fish activity and seen lots of sharks this year. on one dive
think was the Indura  we had a big 8-10 ft  bull shark that was seen
by several divers even the boat captain and dive master seen it.
I have got  sone pictures of some good sand tigers sharks didnt see
the bull darn it, and still some lionfish being seen .
of course most of them in deeper waters  got a Picture of one off the
bow of  U352 will post picture soon.
  more news anyone interested in trying dry suit diving DUI is having
one of ther dog days ( DUI dry suit day's)in VA  on (Oct 30-31st )
I know  what a weekend to do it LOL !!!! oh seamaster will be there
lots of class's ect.
but be good change to see if  you want to try that also see if you
can fit in stock suit or would have to go custom suit . info below.
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Just joined the group.
I was at rolesville the weekend and very murky. They are pulling water
out of the quarry and I think it is going to get worse to make it
better. Good viz @ 38 feet, cold and dark, but I like that.
Anyone up for Blanch quarry?
See ya
Kevin

I added a new link that shows some of the common problems with ears
and diving  take a look .its in the link section.

Dear Friends,
07/13/04

     We were incredibly saddened and shocked to learn that Suzanne
Johnson,
our dive shop manager, died on Sunday.
     She was paticipating in a technical dive in Lake Huron with
friends and
had some problems during a decompression stop. She was brought to the
surface unconscious and was not able to be revived. No one is exactly
sure
what happened. She had plenty of air and was using the same gas mixes
as the
other divers, who encountered no problems.
     Suzanne had the heart of an adventurer and fell in love with scuba
diving from the first time she tried it. She came to Water World as a
part-time employee hoping to learn more about the sport that
delighted her
so much. Within two weeks she had become a full time employee and
threw
herself in to  helping out with scuba classes almost every night of
the
week. She so loved scuba diving we had to force her to take time
off!  She
eventually became a  recreational dive instructor. Later, she  began
exploring more technical type diving.
     She will be deeply missed. She had told her family that in the
event of
her death, she wanted to be cremated and have her ashes spread out
over the
ocean. She recently told us that she didn't want a funeral when she
died;
instead  she wanted those who knew her to celebrate her life more in
the
tradition of an Irish wake. In honor of her  wishes we are planning a
party
for her on her birthday July 31st at 7:00PM. We will try to post the
details
on our web page soon.
     We will be having our dive club meeting tonight as planned. She
was very
excited about the Bull City Divers and we believe she would have
wanted us
to keep on keeping on...Come if you are able.
     We wanted to let you know as soon as possible as we're sure
Suzanne held
a place in many of your hearts.



Sadly,

The Water World Staff

Russell Deatherage
rdd@...
919.426.1266

Hey Group and staff,

I thought I make this available for you all in case this board fails...

I would like to invite you to join my forum:
http://s3.invisionfree.com/Rave_on/index.php

Hope to see you there soon!

Jonathan

well went out this weekend with discovery divers  on-board the
Captain's Lady    OK boat kinda small good for  Six diver's
we dove the USCG SPAR which is about 26 miles out  depth is 108 to
sand  and about  56 top of wheel house
temps wear 82 topside  bottom was 74 .
comfortable dive in 3 mm  suit
visibility was  60-80 feet
fish  for only being four weeks old wreck lots of fish all ready
Barracuda, Lots of bait fish , quit a few Sand Tigers.
and a easy  swim through and  entry level Penetration wreck  as its
still very low silt/sand  color is still white and easy entrance and
exits.

Has anyone dived it yet if so give report please.

these wear friends of mine despite even the best training
somethings can go wrong keep that back of your minds.
this is a copy from Christos
with his permission

Subject: Eric Siebel Tech Diving Accident 6.27.2004

[ I know Christos personally and dove with him in excesses of 10x in
technical dives as deep as 260' ... this is his story as posted, more
as time allows me to collate the incident --- mg}

This just released from E-divers and copied from thedecostop.com:

Thank you all for all the kind comments. Here is a brief synopsis of
what happened:

Dive planned to 170-190 ft, 30 mins BT on a backgas of 18/45 in PST
104's, 50 mins deco on 50 and 100%. Sand was 210 ft, but profile
allowed for a considerably shallower average depth. We had planned on
dropping on the Lowrance wreck, and my buddy being a keen
spearfisherman had brought his gun. I did not.

Everything was fine on the boat, there were no signs or premonitions
of anything untoward on the surface and on most of the descent. The
current was in excess of 2 knots, and the water temperature was
considerably colder than usual for Pompano, about 66F. My buddy
dropped faster than I did on this occasion, and I was not able to
maintain eye contact. I chose to not swim as fast as him, as I could
already feel some CO2 narcosis stepping in. The team ahead of us for
whatever reason had chosen to place a down-line, and I saw my buddy
take hold of it and descend on it. I can only presume that he would
have loaded the four bands of his speargun at this time based on
previous observations of his behaviour. It's not hard to imagine that
the effort of this at 70 ft or so, compounded with all the other
factors would have driven his PCO2 to levels that were not compatible
with life.

I had him in clear visual contact all the time, and when we caught up
on the bottom, he started seizing immediately. I could not extricate
him from the wreck at once as his manifold was caught up on part of
the wreck, so I deflated his wing, purged my 7 cft hose into his
mouth
as his rig was out in an attempt to clear his oropharyngeal airway,
and belted for the surface. Dive time then was 11 mins, we were at
150ft (I think the current took us north of the Lowrance as I did not
recognize the wreck... we were probably 300ft N on the "Renegade").
To
those with whom I have previously spoken, I apologise for calling the
depth 170; This was an estimate based on an assumption that we were
on
the Lowrance which I believe we missed. Time to surface was 4
minutes,
I had switched to 50% en route, and the boat was right on top of us.
Even on the ascent, I could see that my buddy was Cyanosed, and that
there was frothy material coming out of his mouth. All the way up to
the surface, he was having a grand mal seizure, and this stopped at
about 40ft. I chose not to wait for his seizures to abait as he was
already cyanotic, and I pressed on his belly all the way up in a vain
attempt to prevent a pneumothorax. On the surface, there was a
massive
amount of frothy blood tinged sputum coming of his mouth and nose, I
cut him out of his harness, and he was hauled onto the boat. The
police were on site in less than 2 mins, I went on O2, and we were
were back in dock in less than three minutes. My girlfriend who is an
ER doc noted that he had a gash on his cheek, and that he was so
cyanotic and mottled that there was no way that this could have been
a
4 minute rescue. She noted in particular that alot of water was
coming
out of his airway during rescuscitation. This confirms to me beyond
any reasonable doubt that my buddy had passed out at about 70 -100ft
due to overexcertion and CO2 narcosis, as a result of the goal
orientated approach of his dream of nailing a black grouper on the
Lowrance. I believe that that he had inadvertently chosen to ignore
the warning signs that that his body was showing him. He most likely
scraped his head onto the wreck, drowned on the way down, and started
seizing due to Hypoxia / Anoxia. I sincerely doubt that there was any
CO or acetylene in his backgas as the fill station we use is the best
run in florida, and the proprietor is extremely anal retentive and
methodical.

I would like to thank the member of the other team for giving up on
attempting to drag my buddy towards the "upline", and from allowing
me
to head to the surface when he realised that my ascent was too
uncomfortable for him. I would like to thank that team for continuing
their dive as though nothing had happened, and for not recovering my
friend's speargun.

In particular I would like to commend Captain Conrad Nix for his
decisive action, my girlfiend for an exemplary rescusitation despite
overwhelming odds, and for the Sheriff for getting on site in record
speed. In particular I would like to thank the Dentist member of the
other team who maintained mouth to mouth rescusuitation despite my
comments calling for an end to the code. I declined to go to the
chamber and signed out AMA as I was well clear on deco.

I would also like to thank Dean Marshall, Cody Gardner, Bob Sherwood
and Andrew Georgitsis for teaching me how to rescue an unconscious
diver. I would in particular like to mention Andrew Georgitsis and
Tyler Moon for coaxing me into becoming more emotionally cool,
smooth,
unflinching, and deliberate in my actions. I would also like to thank
all of the countless individuals, both Professors, and Patients
throughout my fifteen years of Postgraduate Medical Training who
taught me the value of life, the dignity of humanity, the art of
Medicine and for developing me as a person who functions best in
conditions of high stress.

Eric Seibel was one of my best friends, a brilliant man and an
exceptionally talented diver. He just celebrated his 5Oth birthday on
Saturday and will always be remembered for his humanity, quick wit
and
his kindness. Whilst he made some decisions today which I would not
have, I will not dwell upon these. He was well loved by many people
in
South Florida and leaves behind a wife and family. This is the only
comment that I will post online in a public forum. There are no
learning experiences to be gained from this, and I would only hope
that people continue to take heed, and appreciate the limitations of
their training and physiology.

Over the next few days I will no doubt increasingly blame myself for
"not doing this", and "not doing that". I do this everytime I have a
death in the OR, and it always runs through the same cycle. There is
nothing else that could have done to have prevented this death
besides
not diving today. Through the years I have learnt to dissociate
myself
emotionally from my work, and this is helping enormously right now,
although I don't expect it to last much longer as I work through the
stages of mourning for my friend.

Enough for now.

Warm Regards to all,

Christos

check this site out for more info on tech diving in nc .

http://www.sportdiverhq.com/index.htm

http://www.wral.com/news/3408559/detail.html

We are planning on being in Morehead City next week and was
wondering if there were any charters that did tech trips..we are
looking for something in the 150-210 or so range.... we've diving
with Olympus two days but looking to see if there's any other
options

Thanks

Bob McKinney
Daytona Beach

http://allenhost.com/gallery/medics-pictures

Looking for a nice simple dive on NC or SC coast. Anyone have
information on beach or Jetty dives? Live in Charlotte, and was
looking...came across Aquatic Safari in Wilmington, and considering a
$40 dive to an inshore wreck. Does anyone have good/bad things to say
about them???
David
Dmahn@...

Jason And Tania Owen are proud to announce the arrival of Daddy's future
dive buddy.

Sydney Brooke Owen was born almost five weeks early on Sunday May 2nd, 2004.
She weighed in at 3 lbs. 13 ozs. and measured 13 inches long.  As small and
premature as she is the doctors assure us that she is in excellent health.
Mother and daughter are both doing fine.  If you would like to see photos,
rather then send them out and tie up everybody's email space and download
time, I have posted them at: www.locationbeaufort.com/sydney

Jason J. Owen

Diving the Proteus this weekend(May 1). First time, any tips or
stories. Also what are the temps. Should I bring a Mares Semi-dry, or
3mm with a core warmer? Thanks for any help

Greetings all,

As the founding publisher and editor of the original SPORT DIVER and
OCEAN REALM magazines I am please to announce the development of a new
ocean nature/travel magazine planned for release in the fall of 2004.

Anyone interested in contributing photo and/or editorial materials
should contact us at Contributor@....

Regards, Richard H. Stewart, President.

Does anybody know of any DIR-friendly boats off the NC or SC coast?
A couple of us are wanting to put together a weekend of wrecks this
spring and some of the team wants to do some light deco and extended
bottom time dives.  Any info is appreciated.

Hey all!

Just a quick note to let you know what I am up to!  Or maybe since it
involves diving I should say down too? Anyway As most of you know I am no
longer working at Palmetto Dive Center, however, I am still diving, teaching
classes, and leading trips.   I will be leading a trip to West Palm Beach on
April 3rd and 4th.  The plan is to do 2 boat dives Saturday after noon, a
beach night dive that evening and 2 more boat dives on Sunday.  Diving in
West Palm is always fun and exciting.  We usually see a nurse shark or two,
barracuda, tons of reef fish, moray eels, turtles, and lobsters just to name
a few of the highlights.  I will be offering an advanced class on this trip
if anybody is interested.  Trip cost is $140 includes hotel (double
occupancy), boats, and air fills.  Non-divers are welcome, ask me for
pricing.

I also have an Open Water Diver course coming up starting April 14th in
Beaufort.  Cost is $200. So get your non diver buddies and family started.
I have also received some requests for discover scuba programs and I am
working on setting some up in the near future.  This program lets non-divers
try scuba in the confines of a pool with an instructor's supervision.  I
will let you know as soon as I get one scheduled.

The last bit of information I have to pass on has to do with all the manatee
photos I have taken in Crystal River last season.  I chose 24 of my
favorites and put them onto a puzzle cd.  It is now available at:
http://www.locationbeaufort.com/cdpuzzle  You can check out one of the
puzzles online for free so try it out when you get a chance and let me know
what you think.

Sea ya on the bottom!

Jason J. Owen

Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam

For all you computer buffs that are good with web pages let me know I
have a domain name just not very good at building web page after that
have to find hosting company, if you have any pictures please send
them or post them will use them in picture page for
ncwreckdivers.net   thanks

Dear group members,

With interest of support for your people and friends.  I posted this
note before asking for your support.   I find you were very kind to
post and also to attempt to join the group I asked, and I have to
thank you sincerely for your efforts.

Unfortunately the person who open the group, desided to close the
group rather soon and expextedly to all memebers.   I am sorry that
group is no longer open.

Thank you for you support and all you do to keep this group so
interesting.

Kind regards,
Jonathan
http://www.divhiker.com/





--- In Ncwreckdivers@yahoogroups.com, "divhiker" <divhiker@y...> wrote:
> Hi group...
>
> Hope you are having a wonderful week!  and that you all enjoyed your
> weekend.
>
> I wanted to invite you all to join us at my friend's group:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyJournal4theworld2c_1987/
>
> We are a small group of folks that enjoy sharing about each other and
> some of the faces of life and experience.
>
> Also wanted to let you know that This week I am featuring our friend
> Rae Rae in my website's Daily Feature page at www.divhiker.com   Rae
> Rae joined us from FL and soon will also have her own pages for you
to
> enjoy her work.  Rae Rae is an amazing looking model with a wonderful
> personality and really friendly.
>
> Hope to see you all there soon
>
> Have an amazing day!
> Jonathan
> www.divhiker.com

Hi guys,

Take a look at my new site (http://www.christiandivers.org) and let me know
what you think. It's still in the building phase, but I hope to add a chat room,
a
section to sell/swap scuba equipment, buoy forcasts, links to common dive
shops and charters and more.

Please give me your suggestions. I've been a member of this group for a
while and I value your opinion.

Although the club is called, "Christian Divers" you don't have to be a Christian
to join. Just a certified diver that is willing to provide by a few simple rules
to
provide a family atmosphere. (i.e., no cursing, drinking, etc). Everybody has a
blast and no one gets offended.

Give me your comments.

Hi guys,

Take a look at my new site and let me know what you think. It's still in the
building phase, but I hope to add a chat room, a section to sell/swap scuba
equipment, buoy forcasts, links to common dive shops and charters and more.

Please give me your suggestions. I've been a member of this group for a
while and I value your opinion.

Although the club is called, "Christian Divers" you don't have to be a Christian
to join. Just a certified diver that is willing to provide by a few simple rules
to
provide a family atmosphere. (i.e., no cursing, drinking, etc). Everybody has a
blast and no one gets offended.

Give me your comments.

Hi group...

Hope you are having a wonderful week!  and that you all enjoyed your
weekend.

I wanted to invite you all to join us at my friend's group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyJournal4theworld2c_1987/

We are a small group of folks that enjoy sharing about each other and
some of the faces of life and experience.

Also wanted to let you know that This week I am featuring our friend
Rae Rae in my website's Daily Feature page at www.divhiker.com   Rae
Rae joined us from FL and soon will also have her own pages for you to
enjoy her work.  Rae Rae is an amazing looking model with a wonderful
personality and really friendly.

Hope to see you all there soon

Have an amazing day!
Jonathan
www.divhiker.com