August 20, 2010 (Liberty Ship)

Today wasn't quite as calm as yesterday, but that didn't stop us! Despite the 3' chop, my dad's friend, Mr. Blackerby, took us out 33 miles offshore to dive a site called the W.E Hutton. The top of the wreck is around 105', so it's one of the deeper dives around. We only had about 25' of viz, so that made picture taking a bit difficult.

The second site (pictured above) is called the Liberty Ship. It's another artificial reef that's only half a mile away from the Indra, but the USCG sank it about 20 years earlier. We still had only 20-25' viz, but seeing all of the pretty white coral that covered the wreck made it a fun dive.

August 19, 2010 (Indra)

We've had another good day out on the ocean! We only had 1-2 foot swells, which is pretty good for North Carolina. Since we good lucky with 50' viz, my dad decided to let me try out his camera. Here's a shot that I took on the Indra, the second site that we went to. There aren't too many fish in this one, but it shows what the inside of the wreck looks like.
The Indra is an artificial reef, a ship that the USCG sank in the 1990s to create a place for fish (and even a few sand tiger sharks) to live.

August 4, 2010 (Caribsea)

We have been blessed with calm seas for the past three days! Today we went 25 miles North East to a wreck called the Caribsea. It was a cargo ship that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1942. It's over 200 feet long and it's covered (by covered I mean 20+) with sand tiger sharks, so many divers find their first dive there a little frightening. Don't let them scare you; they're gentle giants!

August 3, 2010 (U-352)

Today was another good day of diving! This morning we went to the U-352 (my favorite) and another wreck called the Shurz.

Althought the viz (diver slang for visibility) wasn't as good as it was the last time we were there, the U-352 was still completely covered in fish! My dad was trying to get a picture of us, but the fish made it difficult for him. The striped grunts made an impressive silver wall.

August 2, 2010 (Spar)

Hey there!

I just got back from spending a week at Emerald Isle. My family rented a cottage with some friends from Kentucky, so being able to spend time with them was a real treat!

Monday was our first day of diving. Since the water was calm, Captain Leroy allowed us to do three dives, instead of the usual two.

We did our first two dives on the Spar. The Spar is a USCG cutter that was sunk about twenty miles off of the North Carolina coast to creat an artificial reef. It's covered in striped grunts, bait fish, and spade fish. Sometimes a sandtiger shark or two will show up there!

My dad snapped the picture above on what's referred to as the "brige," which is the middle of the top deck of the Spar. The silver and black fish are Atlantic spadefish.

July 24, 2010 (Scuba diving on the U-352)

Hey there!
This is my first post! Woohoo! :)
This morning my dad and I went scuba diving on a couple of shipwrecks off of the North Carolina coast, so I have posted a couple of pictures that my dad took, along with brief descriptions of the wrecks.


The photograph to the right was taken by my dad on the U-352. The U-352 was a German submarine that lies nearly 30 miles off of the North Carolina coast. It was the first German submarine that the Americans sank in World War II.