Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Army Tanks and the Trail

Hey there - made it out to M8 (the Army tanks) for the first time in a long time. Dropped down on the first tank - viz was about 25' or so. After we had been around the tank for a while, made it to the memorial trail. The new trail is wonderful. I cleaned the plaque to CW2 Jackson. The trail leads between the tanks and the reef balls are already getting some growth on them. There were small bait balls above them as well. Two HUGE Goliaths on the second tank in. Basically, lots of activity out there!

We came back in and dove Silvertooth just after 1:00PM. Viz was about 15' and there was a lot of activity there as well. A lot of juvenile Spotfin Butterflies, some very curious Cobia kept swimming around me and a large Golaith stalking in the edge of viz - I think he was pissed because we were swimming around his column.

If you haven't made it out to the tanks lately, in the next couple of months, you should think about going out there. An extremely pleasant dive with the trail of reef balls between the tanks and the tanks as always have a ton of life on them. Greg

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