River Diving , is a experience ??

Dan Bracuk wrote:
> yes

Ob Scuba safety:

But don't hold your breath until that someone chooses to share it.

-- Bob.

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Reef Fish wrote:
> Dan Bracuk wrote:
> > yes
>
> Ob Scuba safety:
>
> But don't hold your breath until that someone chooses to share it.

While looking for an old post on Palau diving (which I didn't find), I
came across this:

Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:03:18 -0500
Sender: SouthEast US Scuba Diving Travel list
<SCUBA-SE@RAVEN.UTC.EDU>
From: Mike Wallace <mwallace61@HOME.COM>
Subject: River Dive
I'm headed up to South Carolina Friday for my second shark tooth
dive in the Cooper River just outside of Charleston. For any of you
east coasters that haven't done this I highly recommend it. It is black
water diving in some pretty rockin' current but a lot of fun too. Last
trip had about a 90 minute bottom time and brought home 30 some
odd teeth between my son and I. Only crapped the suit once when I
thought the log I touched moved. This one wasn't a gator but
definitely could have been.

That's NOT the Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes investigating the
pre-historic
sharks, but the Huntsville, Alamaba Wallace.

The black waters of Cooper River in South Carolina is well-known for
the river dive Mike was talking about. Even though I lived in SC
for years until I retired, I couldn't say "been there, done that",
because anything less than 50-feet visibility is rotten diving.

But I did dive in the Crystal River in Florida while I was a clueless
newbie. The vis there was great, but you couldn't see far from the
crooks and turns of the shallow river.

-- Bob.

ummm nice .

On 1 Sep 2005 09:47:52 -0700, "Reef Fish"
<Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com> wrote:

>The black waters of Cooper River in South Carolina is well-known for
>the river dive Mike was talking about. Even though I lived in SC
>for years until I retired, I couldn't say "been there, done that",
>because anything less than 50-feet visibility is rotten diving.

River dives a la Cooper River (basically 0 vis) are for those who
don't have airfare to Cayman Brac, Cozumel, Bonaire, etc.

Granted, there can be the occasional excitement in a river like the
folklore story of the "log that moved", I can't recall anyone who
actually could afford a Caribbean trip yet who preferred a river.


-HW "Skip" Weldon
Columbia, SC

HW "Skip" Weldon wrote:
> On 1 Sep 2005 09:47:52 -0700, "Reef Fish"
> <Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >The black waters of Cooper River in South Carolina is well-known for
> >the river dive Mike was talking about. Even though I lived in SC
> >for years until I retired, I couldn't say "been there, done that",
> >because anything less than 50-feet visibility is rotten diving.
>
> River dives a la Cooper River (basically 0 vis) are for those who
> don't have airfare to Cayman Brac, Cozumel, Bonaire, etc.
>
> Granted, there can be the occasional excitement in a river like the
> folklore story of the "log that moved", I can't recall anyone who
> actually could afford a Caribbean trip yet who preferred a river.
>
>
> -HW "Skip" Weldon
> Columbia, SC

The Cooper River is practically at your backyard, isn't it, Skip?

Actually, there are reasons for someone who can afford a Caribbean
trip to prefer a river dive.

You should come to the Choo Choo Aquarium, the best "river fish"
Aquarium in the world, to see some of the exhibits. There's that
monstrous fish from the Volga River, and of course the pirahnas
from the Amazon River ... and other adventurous river dives
that can make the White Shark divers wish they were there.
And you can't even find White sharks in the Caribbean.

-- Bob.

On 2 Sep 2005 10:45:18 -0700, "Reef Fish"
<Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com> wrote:


>Actually, there are reasons for someone who can afford a Caribbean
>trip to prefer a river dive.
>
>You should come to the Choo Choo Aquarium, the best "river fish"
>Aquarium in the world, to see some of the exhibits. There's that
>monstrous fish from the Volga River, and of course the pirahnas
>from the Amazon River

Being a world-class sissy, my first rule of diving is to avoid places
where the critters are bigger than me. And as for diving with
pirahnas, I'll probably pull for UGA before I to that. <grin>


-HW "Skip" Weldon
Columbia, SC

St. Lawrence River, border of Ontario and NY. Loaded with wrecks, good
viz thanks to the zebra mussels, warm in summer (77 three weeks ago
when I was there). Go to the Canadian side for better deals and
friendlier people.

gc