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I have update my site to include photos of the "Carolina Breeze" they can be seen on the photo gallery page on my site www.capt-jt.com I have also sent this trip report again for those that did not see it, for some reason it did not make to techdiver last time. On Sunday Jan 7th, 2001, I dived the New Wreck "Carolina Breeze". The CB is a 86ft fishing trawler that sunk on Oct. 7th, 2000. The Coast Guard air lifted 5 crewman in stormy weather 33 miles off our coast here, the Capt, Billy Haver remained on his vessel along with one crewman in an effort to save it from sinking. The Coast Guard return to the site after dropping off the 5 crewman and refueling, to find the vessel had sunk and only the crewman could be found. The Capt. had gone down with his ship trapped in the Cabin. Commercial divers recovered his body Oct 12th, 2000. The dive boat "Miss Lindsey" had already been to the site in Nov while I was diving in FL, this would be my first look at it and I wanted photos for my web site. The wreck sits in 90ft of water on its keel 33 miles NNE of Rudee Inlet, Va Beach ,Va. The water temp was 41 degrees top to bottom this time of year. The wreck has a temporary mooring line on it and we tied the boat to it. The mast and rigging rise to 46ft and can be a mess to go around in low vis like we had of only 10 or so feet. I entered the Pilot House and went down the stairs to galley. The galley, crews berthing, Capt berthing, and head are very small. It is a very tight place to be with blankets, bedding, curtains, and such floating around. Though I had hopes of finding something with the name on it as a artifact for display, it does not exist on the wreck. I looked for china in the galley and found that the crew was eating off paper plates and plastic forks, it is the way they do it today. I found a frying pan and one pot, I did not want either one. Then I came across a china bowl, it still has the bar code on it as it must have been just purchased. I took it and will place it with the other things I have to display. It is an eerie feeling one gets being on a wreck that has just claimed a life. I could see a line that I believe the commercial divers used to pull the body out and it stuck in my mind. I took several photos for my site and started up. I have never tried to hide the fact that I have been dive trips that have had fatalities, even once I recovered a body of a person who had jumped off a bridge minutes before I got there, he had broke his neck. I have had nightmares on the nights after these things happen. The diving of this new wreck and thinking about the Capt, must have touched one of those memories. Its seems I had a nightmare last night, my girlfriend woke to me screaming and moaning in my sleep. Some things are hard to forget. Dive Safe Capt JT "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water" Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ Email captjt@mi*.co* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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