NC and SC diving info..???

[dagodiver]

I will be attending a family wedding late June in NC and was planning on taking
a trip down the East coast to get back to FL. I would like to maybe get in a dive or two on the way home any info on area Charter's would be helpful.
Spearing or just some cool wreck's would be nice. Whatever depth is fine.
thanks for any info.




Dago.

[Slay Ride]

Best person to speak with about charters is Capt Tom. His web name is SPEARIT. He runs some good charters. Nice guy. I'm sure he'll speak up here. I'm in Charleston, SC if you make it this way.

[gumshoe]

I will be attending a family wedding late June in NC and was planning on taking
a trip down the East coast to get back to FL. I would like to maybe get in a dive or two on the way home any info on area Charter's would be helpful.
Spearing or just some cool wreck's would be nice. Whatever depth is fine.
thanks for any info.




Dago.


http://www.spearitcharters.com

**new reports coming soon (hint, hint, capt. Tom)

[Hunter]

Slay Ride and Gumshoe are right, check with Tom on Spearit. If you want good spearfising, stay away from charters going to popular wrecks, they receive a lot of pressure as the summer wears on.

[Md Spear]

Dago, if you dont get on spearin w/ Spearit [ man of the 100 grouper ledge ] then you have 4 choices. If you want to see just different wrecks , there's lots of walk on action to a ton of wrecks out of Moorehead city. U-352 is cool [ not to fishy, just History ] Papoose has some big sand tigers. Plus a bunch more wrecks.
Choice # 2 is out of Hatteras Inlet further north. As walk on charters go the 2 wrecks I favor are Dixie Arrow and Proteus. My feeble opinion is these are 2 of the richest, fishyest wreck habitats around.[ NC dive books say the same ] A lot of everything and a lot of big , big fish. Enormous stingrays , 6 ft cobia , fat sand tigers ,30" african pompano, you name it.Proteus has big sand tigers out the wazoo!!!
Choice #3 Talk Capt Tom Collins into planin your itenerary. He really is the NC diving Big Kahuna
Choice # 4 pressure me enough and I'll drag the 30 Scarab down from Maryland for a few days to Hatteras and we'll run offshore .[ Had it to Proteus & Arrow a few times before.]
Most stuff is 17-30 miles offshore, and as you know Hatteras and NC stuff can weather you out in a flash & we're stuck drinkin BEER, or it can be the coolest diving on the East coast.

BFCD is a iternet NC wreck dive club. Go to their site www.nc-wreckdiving.com and click on the wrecks. Paul Hurdy has a humongus list of NC wrecks, descriptions,their history,gps location,pics he has taken, you name it!! This guy really out did himself [it's his dive club] This will help you decide what you want to see. I dove w/ his club once on the lobster wreck and snagged a 9 pound lobster.
I don't know squat about the good stuff in SC
This was shot on Proteus. Wade

[dagodiver]

Wow thanks for all the info everyone.
I will be sure to get in some diving now.
Great web site Wade.


Thanks again.

Dago.

[SPEARIT]

Dagodiver
Sorry I haven't responded to this earlier, but I was picking the boat up from being bottompainted and then brought it to the house so we can do a final cleaning before trips start next week. Give me a call about when you'll be up here and we can set some things up. All my weekends are full during June,but I'll have some weekday trips with openings, or if not, I can get a couple of divers together and go look at some new spots. The wrecks around Cape Fear(Normania, Esso Nashville, Cassimer, Lobster Wreck, Rosen, City of Houston, 18fathom wreck) don't get dove as much as the ones further north, so the shooting is a little better on these. I usually recommend, if you want to do wrecks and shoot, that we do one wreck, then one of the ledges.
Tom

[dagodiver]

Tom thanks and I will be in touch.





Dago.

[SPEARIT]

Dago
Take a look at the April issue of SCUBA DIVING, there's a fair article on some of our wrecks. Kinda slanted towards Morehead City area wrecks, as it is the most popular destination for wrecks. Let me know when you're coming and we'll set something up.
Tom

[Md Spear]

Dago , let me know if you will try to dive on Spearit on a weekday. Late June tree planting starts to slow a bit so there's a possibilty I can slip down for the dive.Its a 7 hr drive from my house. I've chartered Spearit on wkends in May and early June, but one can never git enough of the Good stuff!!! Offshore NC diving is a little like sampling putang, Once you see it and Do it , its so wild you gotta have more! :D :D Wade