NSF Dive Talk

Ten Froggies at the BK!

A great turn out for the Sunday Morning Dive. John F., Peter E., Paul S., Bill W. and his wife (I forgot her name, sorry!), Amy, Mia, Mary, Joe Terra and me. We headed out to Mag Rocks, which looked pretty inviting with only a few 2 foot rollers breaking now and then. Mary, Mia and Amy opted for the gentler entry and exits at Folly Cove since they were sporting U/W photo gear. After I dragged all my gear down on to the rocks and considered the heat, humidity, distance down over rocks into the water - and my drysuit, I opted to bail on the dive and headed over to Folly to see how the other three had fared.

Surprisingly, Mary, Amy and Mia had not finished suiting up, convinced me to dive (I really wasn't going to) and were gracious enough to wait for me to catch up. They saw enough little critters to be satisfied with their dive; I saw a couple baby lobsters, a whole lotta fish fry, a couple 6 inch flounders and a lot of kelp and silt. I wasn't impressed with the viz, maybe 10 feet in most places, and temps at 50 degrees at 40 feet. Folly Cove is usually a stellar dive and worth the up and down and walking - today, as my first scuba instructor, Juan in Cancun said, "Noso goo."

Those 3 were going to do a 2nd dive when I hauled my stuff back up the hill and got my car. All in all, diving Folly was better than driving out to Cape Ann on Sunday and driving back without diving, but sleeping in would have been better.