Brian, Bart, Harry Rocher, Stan and I got out yesterday. The seas were oily calm and when the sun was out it was very comfortable on the surface. The dive boats out of Shark River were out in force Saturday as we were joined by the Sea Horse. We both decided to head North and while the Sea Horse decided to hit the wrecks in the 60 ft range we went slightly deeper at 80 ft. Our first stop was a low lying wood wreck off Sea Bright/ Sandy Hook area. The bottom temp was about 40 and the surface slightly cooler. Vis was a low 5 to 10. Some fish and lobster were spotted under the wreckage and a few finds came up. After the first dive wefound out the Sea Horse had slightly worse vis than us and as the vis at our site was not good both boats headed offshore a bit. Our next stop was a metal and wood site in about 90ft where the vis was 10 to 15 . A few more lobster were spotted and several keeper (not big)tog came up. It was a beautiful winter day on the water and under the water. Hopefully we will get a few more weekends of good weather. I already have planned to miss diving the weekend of the 15th so I can attend the scuba flea market. See you there.
So glad you reminded me that people DO dive in nj. Down here in the land of piņa colada, I was starting to doubt I really do dive in nj..people look at you funny when you say well I dive mostly in nj. Yes my last dive water temp was 50...(they say this one is either nuts or a liar). Hubby verifies but they still look doubious. My first year snow birding is different than vacation. Especially spending almost every waking moment renovating a vintage property ( I call it vintage cuz it's in an oceanfront community, otherwise it would just be an old dump). At mile marker 23 on the overseas hwy 1, I am 23 miles no of key west and 5 miles south (or west) of the beautiful looe key reef.
With all the renovating, I did sneak out one nice boat trip to Looe Key, a beautiful marine sanctuary. Generally sort of boring pretty fish trip, this wreck diver was rewarded with the sight of a Volkswagen swimming toward her...the elusive giant grouper......around 300 lbs, it was magnificent. Wow. Sort of scary as it comes floating by. But what a treat..I thought I could catch up, but it's faster than it looks and as fast as it came, it was gone! That sight and the hope of finding lots of go pros on the reef will now keep me vigilant at the reef.
I have my lobster license so I'm looking forward to doing a few lobster trips with capt rob of the "last one" from the Belmar marina. I'll post some pics when the unit is more finished in a couple of weeks. Keep diving jersey boys...
everyone knows the lobsters i catch are the biggest and bestest
Notice to that Capt Stan has no posting on the wall of fame - thats because he never catches any - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
that is all the bartman-mosb
Re: PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Glenn on 2/5/2014, 8:26 am, in reply to "PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!"
Yes Bart, but in all fairness these are OLD records PRIOR to the 5" or about 5 lb max size limit. Yes, the good old days.
if you got out, you could not ask for better conditions for febuary - thanxs howard for taking us - once again capt stan had to learn the hard way who is the king of the sinkers lolol - who cares about that bronze/ brass stuff, it is really annoying all that banging and sawing nonsence - when will he ever learn aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i remain the bartman - mosb
dive report
Posted by Capt. Bill on 2/3/2014, 1:57 pm, in reply to "a perfect day"
Well the little tunny, Jimmy, Paulie, Mike, mark, El Ducci made four dives friday four saturday and one today we're running when we can get out. I'm sure they'll right a report when they get home.
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