diving in New York

[jorawley]

right off on a supposed non diving hol (is there ever such a thing) in June with long suffering hubby. Has anyone dived over there? Will only be able to sneak in 2 to 4 dives so livaboard or long trips are out.
Have contacted a couple of centres over there who say they can only really offer me an inland site called Dutch Springs despite having several fabulous wrecks on their doorstep.
Is it really worth me dragging my dry suit over there for the puddle diving or does anyone have any recommendation for operators out there??

Many Thanks

[Buoyant Babe]

Another trip? You and ScubaSue make Judith Chalmers look positively aggoraphobic

[ScubaSue]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Another trip? You and ScubaSue make Judith Chalmers look positively aggoraphobic

EDIT: Sorry Jo, can't help you on that one .............................yet

[jorawley]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Another trip?

well i have to say i've taken scubasue's signature to be a motto (WOO HOO)- that and the bon jovi lyrics of 'I'll sleep when I'm dead'.

[ScubaSue]

Originally Posted by jorawley

well i have to say i've taken scubasue's signature to be a motto (WOO HOO)- that and the bon jovi lyrics of 'I'll sleep when I'm dead'.

That's what happened to Purple Vonny too

OOh, yep, lyrics - they'll do for me too - cheers Jo!

[Chardy]

Jo,

get on a flight south, Florida is two hours, North Carolina less if you are ther for any significant length of time

Paul

[NotDeadYet]

There is loads of wreck diving along the Jersey coast which is not unlike Clyde diving: low vis, strong currents, centuries of shipping coming a cropper. There's also diving to be had off Long Island too. If you go up into New England then conditions get much better.

[Andy M]

Originally Posted by jorawley

right off on a supposed non diving hol (is there ever such a thing) in June with long suffering hubby. Has anyone dived over there? Will only be able to sneak in 2 to 4 dives so livaboard or long trips are out.
Have contacted a couple of centres over there who say they can only really offer me an inland site called Dutch Springs despite having several fabulous wrecks on their doorstep.

Hi. I lived in Manhattan for 1.5 years and dived out of NY/NJ quite a lot.

Theres a list of local dive boats and contacts at http://www.villagedivers.com/localtech/boats.html

The diving is very good, when the vis is good, and the sea is calm... Off NY/NJ the sea can get quite unpleasantly lumpy quickly. But in june things should be fairly calm. I am not sure how much diving you have done, but if you have done plenty of UK wreck diving (50-100+), then you wont have a problem in NY/NJ. I can recommend the wrecks of the San Diego/Algol, but theres plenty out there really.

Theres also some shore diving off Beach 9th Street - I have dived this in the middle of the NY snowy winter, with ice floating down the east river. Air temp -25C, hair froze as soon as i came out of the water

Theres also some inlet, tidal diving at Ponquoque bridge, but the timing of slack is critical here. You probably dont want to try diving the Andrea Doria as that is a long way offshore, and is around 60m deep, way past Montauk, LI

Dutch Springs PA is quite nice, a lot better than guildenburgh. About the same as Stoney cove I'd say. If you want easy, guaranteed diving then Dutch Springs is it. Be sure to have your c-card and log book with you and be prepared to sign legal documents/disclaimers in triplicate when diving off US dive boats...

cheers

Andy

[Ken]

There is a ton of diving out here in NY. In June the ocean waters require a drysuit. There are innumerable wrecks here. In fact, it's not unlike diving in the UK except that your lobsters are colored differently and far smaller and that you have 'big, delicious crabs".

Dutch Springs is a training location. Pass it unless you like quarry diving with new trainees. Some of the big guns that operate here are the Seeker out of Rhode Island (U-869), the Independence out of NJ and a great boat out of Brooklyn NY called the Jeanne II.

If you do a google search you can find them listed.

[Andy M]

Originally Posted by Ken

A great boat out of Brooklyn NY called the Jeanne II.

To follow up on Kens post, the Jeanne II is excellent. Crew are very friendly and get the job done. The Jeanne II docks in Sheepshead bay, Brooklyn.

This location probably has the unique distinction of allowing you to go diving by wheeling your twinset on a trolley out of a high rise manhattan apartment block, down to the subway, getting lots of funny looks, and getting the subway all the way to just across the road from the dive boat It does take a long time though -

They do dives on wednesdays during the summer, check it out.