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Perhaps with global warming and sea levels rising you are correct. I have yet to dive the Kendrick so I was going from first hand information from those that have dove the wreck. 315' or 326' a'int enough to quibble over. Well, as I was without a scooter this trip, I was content on just swimming around the stern section a few times, checking out the hangar and the neat swim-thru, sliding into one of the side turrets, trying (unsuccessfully) to slide up into one of the big deck guns, poking about the interior looking for "bottom junk," checking out all the neat controls in the superstructure rooms, but not jumping over to the bow. I forgot to bring my census slate down or I would have run a couple of fish counts as well. There are plenty of rooms and compartments to investigate just on the stern. Gee, and I had a total run time of a massive 99 minutes (BFD). I like to take my time and really soak up the scenery; not that any of this matters as we don't try to compete with anyone else -- we just try to have fun... Joe - you owe me a dollar. It took longer than we thought, but... m >From: trey@ne*.co* (Trey) >To: "Michael Barnette" <aocfishman@ho*.co*>, <techdiver@aquanaut.com> >Subject: Re: AUE Weekend Dive Report >Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 06:26:02 -0400 > >I got 315 on the sand 9 years ago. I guess it got deeper. The Wilkes is 250 >ish if you get under the concave part of the hull, 200 or so to the stern >deck. > >When we did it in January, we hooked the bow, did that , then the stern, >then the hangers and rooms back there, then the rooms up above on the >tower, >then the bow out to the tip, and the guns on the sand and such, and then up >and out in a 90 minute run time. What were you guys doing, crawling on the >bottom? > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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