Sort of reminds me of diving off of Long Island/New York/New Jersey diving the ship wrecks. We carried with us catch bags to load up with lobsters, scallops or anything else. Titanic
I take it same type of weather same water temp same vis ? 😂 I take it your wrecks where commercial shipping or WW2 . Now catching lobsters that sounds interesting. I tried crayfish catching when I was briefly in New Zealand but they didn’t have massive claws to nip you with . I think I just stick with Scallops 🤔👍
@@scubavery while in the summer months, you can get away with a 7mm wet suit, dry suits were the norm for those that dove regularly. And yes, WWII, commercial, and WWI wrecks we dove. Mostly deco diving. Visibility varies. Usually 10-20 feet. Some good days, 50 -70 feet, but that's rare. Hit the thermocline, temps and vis drop. Yeah, sticking your hand into a piece of wreckage to get a lobster is challenging for sure. Their claws are facing you. We would get dozens of scallops when they were around. But I just loved the the quietness (except for exhaust bubbles), looking at the schooling fish, exploring the wrecks. It was peaceful for me.
Well no matter what time of year it is in Scotland defo dry suit for diving 🥶. It seems that we both dive in the same types of waters . But I mostly dive in sea lochs where the waters are green vis can be at times 5 m . At the moment water temp is about 8c/46.4 . I do like the wrecks dives . But there are 4hrs or longer to get there . I do also like the quietness of diving except the weight we have to carry myself 14 kg weight harness with 15 ltr steel cylinder Where I dive at times it’s very rare to see lobsters and hard to get as they are deep in the rocks . I try to get out diving as often as I can in the uk and overseas.
@@scubavery wrecks off of Long Island are within, depending on the wreck, 1-2 hours away. Some, a little longer to get too. Those are off the coast of New Jersey. Depending on the diving "itch" and those on board, we'll dive as deep as 61 meters. Got some of my best scallops at that depth. There are wrecks that are great for lobsters that are in 43 meters of water. We've dove and seen all types of marine life. Sharks, whales, giant sun fish, dolphins, sea turtles, and of course, those tropical fish that ride the gulf stream all the way north and look for help,, like trigger fish and others. I dove double steel low pressure 95's (165 bar) and had them pumped to over 200psi. You can never have enough air. Slings were AL40's and 30's with various O2 content for decompression. Steel backplate and wings (Dive Rite or OMS), I had barely 9kg around my waist and ankle weights. All of it was on my back...ugh! But I had strong legs, and most of us dove like that until rebreathers started to appear. Too costly for me. My all time favorite reg is Poseidon Odin. Zeagle (Apek) are great too. PADI pro rating, but now retired in land locked Poland.
I thought you were from the states 😂. You mentioned retired from diving? If I was younger and took up diving many years ago i think I would taken up rebreather/tech diving . But just limited to 40m. I would love to be up close to a whale when diving must be an awesome experience to witness. Seems you done lots of different and exciting dives over the years that’s for sure .i just dive on 15ltrs tried a rebreather in a pool And seen some amazing sights underwater. I wish I took this sport up years ago .
My first had a great time . Sassenach point hmmm . My dive computer didn’t log the location. Also we was inside getting ready so don’t really know where it was. I will ask my dive buddies and hopefully get back to you 👍
Sort of reminds me of diving off of Long Island/New York/New Jersey diving the ship wrecks. We carried with us catch bags to load up with lobsters, scallops or anything else.
Titanic
I take it same type of weather same water temp same vis ? 😂 I take it your wrecks where commercial shipping or WW2 . Now catching lobsters that sounds interesting. I tried crayfish catching when I was briefly in New Zealand but they didn’t have massive claws to nip you with . I think I just stick with Scallops 🤔👍
@@scubavery while in the summer months, you can get away with a 7mm wet suit, dry suits were the norm for those that dove regularly. And yes, WWII, commercial, and WWI wrecks we dove. Mostly deco diving. Visibility varies. Usually 10-20 feet. Some good days, 50 -70 feet, but that's rare. Hit the thermocline, temps and vis drop.
Yeah, sticking your hand into a piece of wreckage to get a lobster is challenging for sure. Their claws are facing you. We would get dozens of scallops when they were around.
But I just loved the the quietness (except for exhaust bubbles), looking at the schooling fish, exploring the wrecks. It was peaceful for me.
Well no matter what time of year it is in Scotland defo dry suit for diving 🥶. It seems that we both dive in the same types of waters . But I mostly dive in sea lochs where the waters are green vis can be at times 5 m . At the moment water temp is about 8c/46.4 . I do like the wrecks dives . But there are 4hrs or longer to get there . I do also like the quietness of diving except the weight we have to carry myself 14 kg weight harness with 15 ltr steel cylinder Where I dive at times it’s very rare to see lobsters and hard to get as they are deep in the rocks . I try to get out diving as often as I can in the uk and overseas.
@@scubavery wrecks off of Long Island are within, depending on the wreck, 1-2 hours away. Some, a little longer to get too. Those are off the coast of New Jersey. Depending on the diving "itch" and those on board, we'll dive as deep as 61 meters. Got some of my best scallops at that depth. There are wrecks that are great for lobsters that are in 43 meters of water. We've dove and seen all types of marine life. Sharks, whales, giant sun fish, dolphins, sea turtles, and of course, those tropical fish that ride the gulf stream all the way north and look for help,, like trigger fish and others.
I dove double steel low pressure 95's (165 bar) and had them pumped to over 200psi. You can never have enough air. Slings were AL40's and 30's with various O2 content for decompression. Steel backplate and wings (Dive Rite or OMS), I had barely 9kg around my waist and ankle weights. All of it was on my back...ugh! But I had strong legs, and most of us dove like that until rebreathers started to appear. Too costly for me. My all time favorite reg is Poseidon Odin. Zeagle (Apek) are great too.
PADI pro rating, but now retired in land locked Poland.
I thought you were from the states 😂. You mentioned retired from diving? If I was younger and took up diving many years ago i think I would taken up rebreather/tech diving . But just limited to 40m. I would love to be up close to a whale when diving must be an awesome experience to witness. Seems you done lots of different and exciting dives over the years that’s for sure .i just dive on 15ltrs tried a rebreather in a pool And seen some amazing sights underwater. I wish I took this sport up years ago .
Nice video, I always like diving the Sound of Mull. I've never done Sassenach point, where about is it?
My first had a great time . Sassenach point hmmm . My dive computer didn’t log the location. Also we was inside getting ready so don’t really know where it was. I will ask my dive buddies and hopefully get back to you 👍