Re: Gilboa Quarry Ohio Video Dive Report

John,

I just pictured this empty body of water, and Marshall's video really gave
it a whole new perspective. Sounds like there's quite a bit to see.


"JOF" <jofrancis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jun 26, 11:06 pm, "George Price" <gpri...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marshall,

Thanks for the video. John had talked about going to this place for a
long
time; your video let me see it first hand. When John first mentioned it
years ago... and long before the ideological bull*** began to fly
between
John and others, I could not imagine why I would want to dive in a ten
foot
visibilty quarry, in 50 degree (F) water. Looked like a good dive...so
what
is the skeleton made up of? Nice touch of adding the freeze frame to the
video of what you where looking at.

There's a lot more to see there. Granted it's a quarry, manmade and
all, but you get to swim through a forest of trees, dead before their
time, swim with schools of our North American style freshwater fish
including a bunch of killer trout that have been fed by divers for so
long that they swarm us when we wander into their part of the quarry,
the 6' Paddlefish which really don't exist despite the protestations
of Star and Chandler, the monster Koi that live up on the shallow
ridge (when you climb up the ridge through the trees and peer over the
top into their 3' deep lair it's like suddenly finding yerself shrunk
to the size of a frog and being dropped in a goldfish bowl), and then
there's the wall into the deep side where you can find the bottom
somewhere beyond 100'. If you can imagine the water off Grand Cayman
at about 150' being yellowish tinged and in deep shadows that's what
it looks like. We once actually discovered a 2" dinosaur somewhere
down there, plastic. And Star had me thinking she was narced one day
because she just hovered there with her mask only inches from the
wall. I finally swam over to see if she was in trouble and she pointed
out little buglike critters walking around on the rocks. Trust a
marine biology freak to find something like that.

I like it better than Dutch Springs, and not just because it's closer
for me. It's best if you can get there thru the week or even early Sat
morning when the students haven't had a chance to silt it up. Then, if
there hasn't been a lot of rain, the vis can be quite good.

JF




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