North Carolina recommendations?

[JugglingMonkeys]

I've been reading all the posts about the great wreck diving in NC!

Setting up a trip now.

It seems that Morehead City is a great place to set out from?

What's a good dive operation to go with?

thanks!

[BouzoukiJoe A.K.A. wrecker130 AKA Chuck Norris AKA joeforbroke (banned)]

Beware of blow outs. I'd say at least 30% of dives will be blown out during the summer and more than that in other seasons.

Morehead/Beaufort is good. Discovery and Olympus are your best bets. With them, you usually will not have any idea where you are going until you get out of the inlet. They try to get you somewhere, even if its just the Indra.

Wilmington is also good. Aquatic Safaris is the op you want. AS usually names the detination ahead of time and makes every effort to get there. They will also cancel dives with some adavance notice, unlike the Morehead operators.

[Scotttyd]

Aquatic Safaris in Wilmington will allow you to start your own charter if you are the first one to request a certain day. Just name your site and date and you are good to go. I just got back with Discovery and it was great. Captain Leroy ended up getting us to both the U-352 and Spar when the original plan was the Spar and then an inshore dive due to our late afternoon start.

[JugglingMonkeys]

Great!
Thanks!

[rktman26]

Originally Posted by Scotttyd

Aquatic Safaris in Wilmington will allow you to start your own charter if you are the first one to request a certain day. Just name your site and date and you are good to go. I just got back with Discovery and it was great. Captain Leroy ended up getting us to both the U-352 and Spar when the original plan was the Spar and then an inshore dive due to our late afternoon start.

I think I saw you guys coming back in. I did a Radio Island dive yesterday and saw the "Captains Lady" docking at Discovery.

I got certified through Discovery and will tell you that they're pretty good people. I've probably done 5 or 6 charters with them. Their Captains are good, and try to get you to the dive site. Last weekend, one of their boats headed out, and the DIVERS called it, saying it was too rough for them, so they came back in.

You may not know where your going until the boat leaves because they want you to have a good dive. If the conditions are bad at one site, they'll take you where the conditions might be better.

You can start your own charter with them as well.

Overall, I've been very pleased with Discovery. I haven't done anything with Olympus, so I can't tell you anything about them.

Good Luck!

[Scotttyd]

Originally Posted by rktman26

I think I saw you guys coming back in. I did a Radio Island dive yesterday and saw the "Captains Lady" docking at Discovery.

I got certified through Discovery and will tell you that they're pretty good people. I've probably done 5 or 6 charters with them. Their Captains are good, and try to get you to the dive site. Last weekend, one of their boats headed out, and the DIVERS called it, saying it was too rough for them, so they came back in.

You may not know where your going until the boat leaves because they want you to have a good dive. If the conditions are bad at one site, they'll take you where the conditions might be better.

You can start your own charter with them as well.

Overall, I've been very pleased with Discovery. I haven't done anything with Olympus, so I can't tell you anything about them.

Good Luck!

unless you were out at Radio Island at 10:30 you did not see us! We made an evening dive, the captain's lady made two trips that day. I love that we made it to the U-352 vs the Indra, gee I wonder which one is best?

[BouzoukiJoe A.K.A. wrecker130 AKA Chuck Norris AKA joeforbroke (banned)]

I've never been to the Indra. I think its MHC's moral equivalent of Wilmington's Hyde. It's also a closer in site that's used as a backup to the offshore sites if conditions get too rough.

rktman26, I saw a bunch of people at Radio Island as we were crawling back in on the Captain's Lady that Saturday.

[Scotttyd]

Originally Posted by BouzoukiJoe

I've never been to the Indra. I think its MHC's moral equivalent of Wilmington's Hyde. It's also a closer in site that's used as a backup to the offshore sites if conditions get too rough.

rktman26, I saw a bunch of people at Radio Island as we were crawling back in on the Captain's Lady that Saturday.

I was going to compare it to the Lib Ship at Wilmington, I have never been to either, just the impression that I got, although I have been wrong a time or 7

[rktman26]

Originally Posted by Scotttyd

unless you were out at Radio Island at 10:30 you did not see us! We made an evening dive, the captain's lady made two trips that day. I love that we made it to the U-352 vs the Indra, gee I wonder which one is best?

I saw the Captains Lady in the afternoon when we dropped off our tanks. It would have been about 3 or 4 PM. The U-352 is a great dive, although it takes a while to get out there.

When I did the sub, the Captain had us trolling for King Mackerals on the surface interval, on the way to the next dive. We ended up hooking into three, but only got 3 halves of fish to the boat- the Barracuda were cutting them in half before we could land the fish. We had a real good time on that trip.

[Scotttyd]

Originally Posted by rktman26

I saw the Captains Lady in the afternoon when we dropped off our tanks. It would have been about 3 or 4 PM. The U-352 is a great dive, although it takes a while to get out there.

When I did the sub, the Captain had us trolling for King Mackerals on the surface interval, on the way to the next dive. We ended up hooking into three, but only got 3 halves of fish to the boat- the Barracuda were cutting them in half before we could land the fish. We had a real good time on that trip.

3-4 was when we were loading up for the afternoon trip, I like them better than the early morning trips, but a 3.5 drive is a heck of a lot easier at 9am than at 3 am. I did not see any baracuda, but other divers saw a couple, I was too focused on the sandies