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

[Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi Brian,

There's nothing wrong with a K350, but a wreck in a current is something I
would avoid in any sub. Just way too many chances to get pinned against or
under something that the thrusters might not be able to pull you off. Just
my 2 cents...


Best,

Alec

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Brian Hughes via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> 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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> https://youtu.be/CALM6QcYU1I
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