Dalco wall

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Dalco wall

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Tell me what this dive is like. Are there different options to follow along the way?
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Re: Dalco wall

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Dalco Wall is largely a structure dive. The wall is clay and changes over time, but there are usually big slabs that have broken away from the main wall. There may be bore holes from burrowing clams and small critters inhabiting the holes and small overhangs. Sometimes lots of shrimp. It is also quite deep.
I've only done it from a live boat, so we tend to drift slowly with the prevailing current at the time.


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Re: Dalco wall

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Its a near vertical sandstone wall, the top is around 40ft and the bottom around 140ft. About the only choice to make is what depth. You only want to do it at high slack.
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Re: Dalco wall

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I thought the bottom was 180?
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- I got a good squirt in my mouth
- I would imagine that there would be a large amount of involuntary gagging
- I don't know about you but I'm not into swallowing it

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Re: Dalco wall

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140-180-5000? Matters not to me I won't be going that deep anyway. 130 feet is as deep as I care to dive. In the tropics it's still good vis and wildlife abounds. In the sound I think most of the things I enjoy are much shallower than 130 feet.
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Re: Dalco wall

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To each their own, I dont even really consider it a dive until I break at least 150 and preferably 200ft.
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- I got a good squirt in my mouth
- I would imagine that there would be a large amount of involuntary gagging
- I don't know about you but I'm not into swallowing it

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Re: Dalco wall

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I hit 206 fsw at Dalco last year....and it was getting deeper when I headed up for deco
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JJHACK wrote:140-180-5000? Matters not to me I won't be going that deep anyway. 130 feet is as deep as I care to dive. In the tropics it's still good vis and wildlife abounds. In the sound I think most of the things I enjoy are much shallower than 130 feet.
its a scalloped sandstone wall without as much life as you might expect (on eg basalt or granite) since the sandstone erodes in the current and the bigger organisms fall off.
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Re: Dalco wall

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Jeremy wrote:I hit 206 fsw at Dalco last year....and it was getting deeper when I headed up for deco
Once I get my boat, its on my bucket list to hit.
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- I got a good squirt in my mouth
- I would imagine that there would be a large amount of involuntary gagging
- I don't know about you but I'm not into swallowing it

CCR discussion on Caustic Cocktails.
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