tphinney
New Member
after finally getting over a cold that lasted 3 weeks I finally made it out to 1 mile reef for an open water dive. it seemed like a nice spot, not to far off shore and only in about 24 feet of water so I though I would pass it on to anyone who might be interested.
I used the following coordinates to get to the reef N27 29.370' W 82 44.080' when I was within about 40 feet of the reef coordinates I dropped the anchor and we started to get geared up.
It was an overcast day last Sat. with it drizzilling part of the day. between the overcast and the fact that we have had pouring rains over the last 2 weeks there was a bit of muck in the water and Viz was down to about 7 feet, I would figure that if the sun was out as normal and we didn't have so much run off coming into the water it would probably be a very clear dive site. I'm not sure if it was the weather or the price of gas but there wasn't a lot of boats out that day. when we got to the site there where about 3 other boats there fishing, but they where about 300 yards from where we dropped anchor.
Once we got in we followed the anchor line down and as soon as we got about 15 feet down we started to see the reef balls. the coordinates put us right on top of the reef. the reef is made up of man made reef balls in verying sizes and appears to be well established with a lot of small fish making the reef balls there home. after we finshed off one tank exploring the area we headed up to egmont to get out of the way of a rain storm that had showed up over the dive site and grilled lunch out at egmont.
we though about going out to the South St. Pete Reef and Diving the Army tanks but a combination of loosing daylight and the long ride home meant that this will have to be another day.
I'm hoping to get a nice weekend in the next couple of weeks to dive the south St. pete reef site and will post info on it if there is any interest.
enjoy.
I used the following coordinates to get to the reef N27 29.370' W 82 44.080' when I was within about 40 feet of the reef coordinates I dropped the anchor and we started to get geared up.
It was an overcast day last Sat. with it drizzilling part of the day. between the overcast and the fact that we have had pouring rains over the last 2 weeks there was a bit of muck in the water and Viz was down to about 7 feet, I would figure that if the sun was out as normal and we didn't have so much run off coming into the water it would probably be a very clear dive site. I'm not sure if it was the weather or the price of gas but there wasn't a lot of boats out that day. when we got to the site there where about 3 other boats there fishing, but they where about 300 yards from where we dropped anchor.
Once we got in we followed the anchor line down and as soon as we got about 15 feet down we started to see the reef balls. the coordinates put us right on top of the reef. the reef is made up of man made reef balls in verying sizes and appears to be well established with a lot of small fish making the reef balls there home. after we finshed off one tank exploring the area we headed up to egmont to get out of the way of a rain storm that had showed up over the dive site and grilled lunch out at egmont.
we though about going out to the South St. Pete Reef and Diving the Army tanks but a combination of loosing daylight and the long ride home meant that this will have to be another day.
I'm hoping to get a nice weekend in the next couple of weeks to dive the south St. pete reef site and will post info on it if there is any interest.
enjoy.
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