Instructors Joanna Pietrzyk and Andy Kluzik lead the Sea Lions Dive Center trip to the Florida Keys over the Memorial Day weekend. The group – ten in all – left the dive center at 6 PM Wednesday evening and drove through to the Keys in the Sea Lions van.
The group dove the Spiegel Grove, the 510 long Landing Ship Dock (LSD) which sits in 130 feet of water. The dive is large and can be penetrated with the proper training and experience. The wreck is large and even without penetration takes multiple dives to explore. Afrter the deep dive the group dove French Reef, Recal Reef and Pelican reef with its plentiful life including Elkhorn Coral, Brain Coral ad lots of colorful fish.
The second day they did four dives including a dive on the wreck of the Duane, a reef, the Spiegel Grove and a night dive on the Benwood which sunk when it collided with a tanked in 1942. Joanna reported seeing a huge sleeping parrot fish, a first for her.
They completed their diving on the Bibb
Sea Lions Dive Center will be returning to the Florida Keys in November so make your plans now. Our next trip is to the Graveyard of the Atlantic on Morehead City North Carolina to dive the U352 and the other wrecks. The water is Caribbean warm and clear with the same colorful aquatic life.
Report provided by Gerard Scheffler.
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