40 Fathoms & Eagles Nest

Friday 4/11 & Sat 4/12

I did 4 training dives in two days at the grotto. The topside weather was bright and sunny, and the water conditions were not too bad either. The new management has done a great job with getting 40 fathoms in probably the best condition it has ever been in. We dove pretty much everything from 150' to the surface. Even though they killed off the Duckweed, they put tilapia, which seems to be doing the trick. The vis was around 25-35' and temp was about 68 degrees.

Sun 4/13

First time at Eagles Nest today, and I like it a lot. Our plan was to drop down the main line to where the downstream and upstream lines meet. We then headed down the upstream line until we reached 150' and headed straight to the wall. As we reached the wall we just swam around the edge and spiraled our way up. From 120 to 150 feet the vis was great, as far as your light could shine. As we moved up to 120 and above the vis got worse, there were large particles floating around. We ended our dive at 25 minutes and began our ascent. Started deco at 70' on backgas and worked our way up to 20' were our O2 was waiting. Deco was pretty much uneventful until I was at my 30' stop and a avalanche of green moss crap came dropping down on me :( . There was a group of 3 divers coming down and I don't know what they were thinking. One was in doubles; maybe 17 years old, 1 was in a single with a single 80 slung across his waist and the third diver just in a single 80. So after getting crap all over me and they went down, I moved to my 20' stop and found plastic bait. This gave me something to do when I reached the catfish in the log I went fishing, but then the fish got the best off me and stole the bait. All in all it was a great dive and can’t wait to dive it again. The vis in the basin was 10 to 15', with overcast sky’s and little rain drizzle