[snagel]

I met up with mm2002 and his wife on Saturday (5/17) to do a dive at Dewey Short. Let me just say that both these people are very genuine and I immediately felt I made a couple of new friends. So if you have a chance to dive with them jump on it, but watch out, mm2002 might put you to work. (We had to change a tire on his boat trailer)

Anyway, the water level was about half way up the steps with the metal railing. This is where we entered. The railings under water were kinda nice because they gave you a place to hold on too while putting your fins on. We descended and went left toward the visitors center. Viz was about 10-15 feet as long as you stayed off the bottom. A lot of silt on the bottom and kicked up quickly silting things out to practically 0 viz. We stayed above the TC, but did notice it got a lot darker around the 30' mark. We were all trying out new equipment so didn't want to go too deep. Water temp above the TC was about 62 degrees. All in all it was a great checkout dive for new equipment and an opportunity to make a couple of new friends.

Side note: We heard that they lost a swimmer there and saw the water patrol looking around. When I drove up there was a K9 unit from the water patrol there. What we heard was that they found the clothes from a swimmer near the water, but the person was missing. I think I heard that the person was mentally challanged. Has anybody heard anything about this? During the dive the water patrol boat was out driving around with lights on, but this didn't appear that anybody was in a panic. We didn't see any other divers in the water looking for anybody and really any huge "rescue" going on other than the water patrol driving around in circles.

S. Nagel