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Dalco wall

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:13 am
by JJHACK
Tell me what this dive is like. Are there different options to follow along the way?

Re: Dalco wall

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:08 am
by GearHead
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

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:15 pm
by CaptnJack
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.

Re: Dalco wall

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:48 pm
by Jeff Pack
I thought the bottom was 180?

Re: Dalco wall

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 2:52 pm
by JJHACK
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.

Re: Dalco wall

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:11 pm
by Jeff Pack
To each their own, I dont even really consider it a dive until I break at least 150 and preferably 200ft.

Re: Dalco wall

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 11:19 pm
by Jeremy
I hit 206 fsw at Dalco last year....and it was getting deeper when I headed up for deco

Re: Dalco wall

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:32 am
by CaptnJack
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.

Re: Dalco wall

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:55 am
by Jeff Pack
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.