This discussion has made me curious.  How much do the tides vary out there
in Florida?

Here in SE Alaska the change in depth from lower low to higher high tide can
be 25' or more.  And the actual depths are often a couple feet different
from the predicted depths in the tide tables.  And finally, the tides are
semi-diurnal which makes things even more crazy.  Up in Cook Inlet the tides
can change by 36' or more.

So trying to peg the depth of a wreck is pretty difficult.  Even if you know
what the tide is "supposed" to be on the tide table, the actual tide at the
spot you are diving might be quite a bit different from the prediction both
in terms of depth and time.  So you can't really even check your watch and
depth gauge on a survey and then reliably translate that depth to mean lower
low water using the tide charts.  All you can really do is mix and plan for
max depth at high tide.

-Kent-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Barnette [mailto:aocfishman@ho*.co*]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 7:09 AM
> To: trey@ne*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject: Re: AUE Weekend Dive Report
>
>
> 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?
> >
>
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