13. May 2010 by admin.

Well, we made through another winter, and now the dive season starts.  At least I had reprieve from winter, and spent six weeks working in Guam.  I seriously believe that I should be living somewhere in the South Pacific.

Anyway NOAA has posted some of our wrecks, during their buoy install this Spring,

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/ThunderBayShipwrecks

I need to get my doubles hydro-ed.  Can’t be slackin’

Happy Diving…

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31. August 2009 by admin.

Well the short Michigan dive season came to an end for me, even before it started.  I injured my shoulder in May, trying to lift a culvert full of sand, and injured my left shoulder.

The pain never subsided, thinking it was just a pulled muscle.  Come to find out a have a Acromion Impingement, basically my Acromoin process is making contact with a tendon, I can’t even support a BCD with an Aluminum 80, without causing pain.  So in Sept. I go in for Arthroscopic surgery to remove some bone from around the tendon.  So hopefully next dive season is going to be a long one.

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30. July 2009 by admin.

Well, today our group finished our NAS 1 class, for the less informed NAS is the Nautical Archeological Society class on the proper techniques of documenting shipwrecks, either on the foreshore, and underwater.  We were taught the proper way to set up baselines, and how measure using offsets, and trilaterations.

The shipwreck we surveyed, and documented was the Joesph Fay just North of Rogers City, Michigan at the 40 mile Point Lighthouse.  The section was determined to a 130 foot starboard hull, that has been beached.  After we setup our baseline we broke up into teams, each team had a fifty foot section to survey.

Surveying the width on both sides of the baseline was easy, the daunting task was measuring every spike, and there had to been 500 just in our fifty foot section.  Thank you Wayne, and Tane (our instructors) for only making us do a detailed 10 foot section, which only had maybe 100 spikes, which we never finished, I would have been there until Thanksgiving trying to finish.

I can only imagine how this works underwater.  Wayne did show us the rest of the wreck he, and a team of seven completed in two days, underwater, and it was amazing, it resembled a piece of art, just awesome.

So with practice, and I mean a lot of practice maybe one my documenting will resemble those of Wayne, and Tane.

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24. January 2009 by admin.

Its been a few days since I created this blog, I still haven’t figured out how to FTP into the blog, so I can edit the look of it.  How ever I thought I would at least post something anyway.

This blog is mostly for Scuba Diving, and as you can guess by my living in Northeast Michigan there just isn’t a lot of diving going during the winter months.  But I’m pretty much counting down the days until I can get my 21’ Larsen out on the water, and dive some of the local wrecks in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

If you have never had a chance to dive up here then you are in for a real treat, the deep wrecks are pristine, the sinkholes are also a very cool dive.  You can visit my website to check out wrecks we have here, go to www.alpenadiver.com

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19. January 2009 by admin.

Well this is my fist post after creating this blog.  So please be patient while I get used to using a blog.

Mike

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31. December 1969 by admin.

After my last post I see I did not have spell check enabled. ooooops…

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31. December 1969 by admin.

Well, just checking out the blog software that comes with Fedora 13, not bad so far. Also it’s finally Memorial Day weekend, getting out and doing some diving up here in the Great Lakes . Supposed to rain tomorrow, but hey it’s diving. Hope everyone has a safe holiday.

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