[PSUBS-MAILIST] New Jersey wreck dive - would you?

[Brian Hughes via Personal_Submersibles]

Crowd Sourcing - should I do it? Would you? In a K350 - Lake Diver aka
Harold?

A couple of weeks ago I was approached with the idea of carrying a 90
year-old WWII Vet to a wreck off the coast of New Jersey. He would like to
see the USS Algol one last time. An attack cargo ship, he served on her
during the war in the Pacific. She was sunk as an artificial reef a number
of years ago.

New Jersey wreck diving is not for sissies. When I've been wreck diving in
the Atlantic, as I'm sure many of you have, you have an anchor line to get
on the wreck and can get back to the boat via same.  A submersible in the
North Atlantic with a current ... and usually bad visibility ... mobile in
three directions with no attachments ...  Diving, if the viz stinks you can
use a reel to get back and you avoid any underwater hazards easily enough.

 The wreck is shallow, 70 feet to the super structure, 120 to the sand.
Would be trivial to have support divers outside for most of the dive.  But
Jersey wreck diving in a K350.  Mark Ragan and I mused about it.  He's not
interested.  Which leaves me.  I'm at about a 20% level of interest.

At a minimum I think we'd need a boat with a crane. I can't imagine being
towed out with a 90 year-old gent in the back and I can't imagine getting
him into it while bobbing about anchored onto the wreck.  Lifted and dropped
in would be my preference.

Thoughts?

Brian

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