Well while it seems everyone else is all doom and gloom, the Independence decided to try and make lemonade out of lemons today. Since it's getting to be that time of year where you take what you can get when the weather allows, we decided to head a little offshore to find something with relief in hopes of finding visibility more than a yardstick could measure. With the can-do spirit in the air, a full boat of optimistic divers headed to the ALGOL.
I splashed to tie in with Joe Rogers who I promptly crashed into just below our tuna ball. The surface vis was so thick you could cut it with a knife. At about 40 feet it opened up quite a bit and although dark, vis on the very top of the wreck (70 feet) was a quite nicer than expected 15-20 feet and warm. The 62 degree water continued down to main deck level where it dropped to around 50 at 100 feet and vis reduced to around 10 feet. Visibility on the bottom (135 fsw) was about 1 foot. So as long as you stayed in the "sandwich" of decent water (pretty much the superstructure from 70-100 feet) you had a quite enjoyable dive. I spotted quite a few tog, top of wreck was covered in mussels, and a few lobsters were spotted clinging to various areas where you wouldn't normally expect them, apparently still in shell shock from the storm.
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