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Dan The reason we do not drift dive a wreck is as I stated before, many divers with different dive plans, we sometimes go to the same wreck for two days or just one full day. The wrecks are on the average 30 miles out that's east not 2 to 5 miles out and then up or down the coast insight of land like Fl. On these trips you may have several single tank divers doing many nondeco dives and some doing the monster deco dive. And as you make one trip a day you get a mixed group(unless a whole group charter the boat and even then this some time happens)and even on the deep tech dives not every ones time is even close (skill level)and many things can happen on a wreck dive that's keeps the hook in wreck a better Idea here. (too long to list, all true wreckdivers know these)And if the current is too strong to descend down the line the site is deemed not diveable at that time,but if picks up and your into the dive you must deal with it!But as your wrecks are concern drift diving is best (I think,I tin to take local knowledge as the expert.This is something you do not do, you sound as if you think your the expert on everything whether you've done it or not.),this maybe true on the currents as local divers will have more firsthand knowledge. But as I much as I'd love to say that I've dove deep (over 130) down there I can not.It seems the boats only like to take locals(this could explain the high number of accidents down there) or you most know someone to get you on the boat.I once tried to get on a boat a month in advance ,but when I was told I could not deco at 20 and 10ft on 02 that I had to use 80/20 I dropped my plans.I gave up on the deep stuff down there as my research lead me too believe there was nothing down there worthy of my skills and that has any real artifact value.So I've been content to venture down there and do the winnie dives with my girlfriend and other divers until this past Dec. when I heard of Skycliff the more I heard of how hard it was and number of locals who had got hurt there fueled my interest in the dive.I made the calls,a team from here was forming I had the boat and I got THE CALL about a better dive I was hired to dive a semi deep treasure wreck in dec. o only 180ft(can be seen at www.quicksilverint.com)since the first trip the Fl. divers that were hired will not be back and a handpicked team that I dive with standby to go back(2 are overweight isn't that great) so all other dives including Skycliff have been put off. As for Miami,Keylargo,and south not having currents here is your lesson for the day,Once set in motion,the flows of water in the oceans are affected by the Coriols force associated with the earth's rotation, so that they form giant patterns of rotation called"gyres" in each of the major ocean basins.These gyres rotate in a clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern. It is these gyres, or portions of them, that form ocean currents. The gulf stream is spawned in the western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, surges north through the Straits of FL and follows a meandering course off the US Atlantic seaboard to Newfoundland, where it turns eastward, crosses the North Atlantic, and finally dissipates off northern Europe. Where it is strongest off FL and South Carolina, it is 40 miles wide and 2,000 feet deep, and it carries 100 billion tons of water at a velocity sometimes approaching five knots.I got this info off my tug and if you could see satellite charts you would see that even Fl. south has the same current even inshore more around Key largo area.It depends on tide and moon for its flood and ebb speed in knots.(for you mph)So what does all this mean it means that you don't know about all the east coast your hardly an expert in your own area. So what kind of artifacts do you have? Never mind if you had anything good I would have already heard of you. Capt.J.T. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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