Carl Bradley Shipwreck Pictures
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Carl Bradley Shipwreck Pictures
Hi Guys they say a picture says a 1000 words well here are a few million words for you!! This was a trip to lake Micigan that Curt and I did to dive the Carl Bradley in 360 ffw! Cold and DEEP, but truely one of the most awsome wrecks i have dived. Curt will follow up with a trip report. Thanks to Capt.Jitka and Lubo and Capt. Ron of Shipwreck Explorers. A first class operation for sure!! To reserve your spot for next years Wreck explorations on lake Michigan, lake Superior, and surrounding area contact Jitka at http://www.shipwreckexplorers.com
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awesome pics mel, you gotta love/hate those zebra mussles. i just read the article on on her about the 2 divers who retrieved the bell and replaced it with the new one. i belive the old bell is in a museum or memorial?? curt please add the profile for that dive, i would love to see what your schedule looked like.
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the real bell is in Rogers city now (the home of the 33 sailors who lost their lives). We did three dives out of four tries, pretty good odds. two were around 330-350 ffw on the bow and the stern dive was 360 ffw. the bow dives had about 3 hrs of deco for me for a 25-30 min bottom time. the stern really kicked my ass, as i did 35 min bottom time and had 4 hrs of deco!! looong time to hang.
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Amazing shots! Looks like pretty good vis, too.
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Very cool! Your pictures are great.
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Those pictures are stunning....
Coming up on that at 350 fsw... wow.
Coming up on that at 350 fsw... wow.
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Amazing. What an achievement. Thanks for sharing..
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Thank the mussels. :-) Although they have been a economic disaster, they have cleaned the water. The Great Lakes used to murkier than Puget Sound. Zebra Mussels have scrubbed the water. On the shallower wrecks I have seen they were several inches deep, and cover every surface.Joshua Smith wrote:Amazing shots! Looks like pretty good vis, too.
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Great pictures Mel. I hope someday to be able to see stuff like that with my own eyes. Your great pictures will do for now though. Thanks.
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true enough, but lake superior is still mostly free of the pests and the shipwrecks there are stunning!!!!! i hope the little buggers never make it up to Isle Royle, that would be a huge tradgey.Steve_B wrote:Zebra Mussels have scrubbed the water. On the shallower wrecks I have seen they were several inches deep, and cover every surface.
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we are heading up to dive the judge hart and gunelida in north lake superior this week, so no zebra mussels !!!!! yipppieeeee!! just wreck to see, cant wait. will post pics on my return
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what are the white tubes that are bunged together on curt in the Bell picture ?
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H20doctor wrote:what are the white tubes that are bunged together on curt in the Bell picture ?
They are bouyancy tubes that I made out of schedule 40 PVC pipe to to help support my 21 W HID light heads. This helps to keep my HD camera housing from wanting to roll over on me, they look funky but work well.
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Curt McNamee wrote:H20doctor wrote:what are the white tubes that are bunged together on curt in the Bell picture ?
They are bouyancy tubes that I made out of schedule 40 PVC pipe to to help support my 21 W HID light heads. This helps to keep my HD camera housing from wanting to roll over on me, they look funky but work well.
So much for all those who told me that my schedule 80 PVC light canister was going to get crushed below 130'....
Sweet pics and report!
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Mel/Curt, thank you for sharing the reports and pictures! :smt038
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AHHH..So thats what CCR,S are for.......WoW
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Curt McNamee wrote:H20doctor wrote:what are the white tubes that are bunged together on curt in the Bell picture ?
They are buoyancy tubes that I made out of schedule 40 PVC pipe to to help support my 21 W HID light heads. This helps to keep my HD camera housing from wanting to roll over on me, they look funky but work well.
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