Five DAM Years - DAM CHUMMERS 2017

Sushi Boy

Shananigator
DAM CHUMmer
First Name
Roger
August done with a near-perfect trip to the Flower Gardens. Awesome weather, good manta action on several dives, and a nice view of the Perseids meteor shower at night, to boot. I'll upload a few pics once I have a chance to do some editing.
 

Siren

Tiger Shark
First Name
Amanda
I have 23 minutes until September 1st - but luckily 24% and I completed our August dive in beautiful Lake Charlevoix, Michigan on August 25th. It was a shore dive off Depot Beach. This is the site of the old Charlevoix train station and there is a section of cribbing still underwater, along with railroad tracks and timber. The water was 66 degrees with 25' visibility, and we still swam around in circles for 30 minutes looking for something so large that is visible from SPACE!!! We *finally* found it because we literally ran into it. It was 12' tall, by 40' long, and 20' wide. How we didn't find this structure sooner baffles us both.

Loving Michigan diving!! We are keeping close tabs on compass headings so that when we return to Michigan next summer, we will know exactly where these underwater sites are.
 

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DivingDoug

Grand Poobah
First Name
Doug
August dives done out of Port St. Joe Florida. One interesting dive site with awful viz and one less interesting dive site with amazing viz.

I'm happy to see no one posted about a dive in the flood waters from Harvey :confused:
 

ReefHound

The Last Poobah
DAM CHUMmer
First Name
Todd
September done for watermonkee and Reefhound. Blue Lagoon #1 sported at least 30' viz. Water level is high and some of the shelters are structure dives. There are a few new platforms put in a few weeks ago.
 

Seaagg05

Tiger Shark
First Name
Richard
September done for me too at blue lagoon yesterday. Traffic getting there from Houston is horrible due to construction.
 

Siren

Tiger Shark
First Name
Amanda
September dive DONE for both me and 24%. We dove the SUPER UNINTERESTING Chillicothe Recreation Area in western Illinois. BORING. Like totally mediocre. But hey, it was a dive. It was nice that all the underwater sites (boats, bus, plane) were all connected via yellow ropes, but the vis was blah. The one cool thing we saw was several freshwater jellyfish. They are pretty rare but can be seen here in early Spring, and late Fall, so we were lucky to find a few. :)
 

DivingDoug

Grand Poobah
First Name
Doug
September done (on the very last day) at Twin with Seaagg05. Visibility was somewhere between 8" and 10" (Yes, those are inches)
 

LegoBloxs

Tiger Shark
DAM CHUMmer
First Name
Simon
September and October dives in the bag for Birddog and myself.
Weekend reunion of the magnolia CHUM chapter in Florida. Great dives in Peacocks springs and Blue Grotto.
 

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