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Re: Diving the Chikuzen
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02/23/2020 02:09 PM
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N 18 deg 37.130' W 64 deg 30.969' (WGS84). I remembe then mooring to be to the east of the wreck, but am not sure if that is correct.
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Re: Diving the Chikuzen
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02/23/2020 07:04 PM
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There is one mooring ball there, but if a commercial dive vessel shows up you will need to relinquish it immediately. This means having someone on board who can operate the boat while the others dive. That sounds like a dangerous situation. Relinquish the mooring, and what, set an anchor? So there will be two boats maneuvering around under power, with divers in the water? I think I'd want to stay away from that. Dan
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Re: Diving the Chikuzen
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02/23/2020 09:35 PM
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There is one mooring ball there, but if a commercial dive vessel shows up you will need to relinquish it immediately. This means having someone on board who can operate the boat while the others dive. That sounds like a dangerous situation. Relinquish the mooring, and what, set an anchor? So there will be two boats maneuvering around under power, with divers in the water? I think I'd want to stay away from that. Dan No dive boat expects you to vacate the ball if you have divers in the water. The ball is often white anyway which is for any boat that is diving to use. To vacate the ball with divers in the water would be very unsafe. If you ever have a dive company demand you do so politely refuse and ask the skippers name. Call the dive company ASAP if that ever happens. G
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Re: Diving the Chikuzen
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02/23/2020 10:38 PM
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We are land based, but my husband has gone out with DiveBVI there. I know they will pick up divers at their boats. He’s already booked 2 half day trips with them in early March, weather permitting of course. He has had a few trips canceled over the years (20+ years at this point) due to swells.
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Re: Diving the Chikuzen
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02/24/2020 09:07 AM
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A couple of years ago this dive almost killed me. Dropped our anchor to the bottom. No problem . Scuba divers went off and went down. So it was me a 2 small children on board. Decided to snorkel the spot, so off I go. Did not realize there was like a 4 knot current. Could not see much while snorkeling so decided to go back to the boat. Really hard swimming against 4 knot current. Got to about 50 ft from the dinghy and one of my flippers blew off. So now I am going around in circles with one flipper. Finally got to the dinghy. So tired, I pulled myself to the bow of the dinghy and now had to swim another 15 ft to the yacht. Really tired. Got onto my yacht. A few minutes later the scuba divers signal to pick them up , so untied the dinghy and picked them (4) with the bow line of the dinghy and put the dinghy in reverse. The poor engine could hardly pull the 4 divers and going in reverse. After I got on the dinghy and all the divers were on board. I told the crew what an incredible risk we took. If the dinghy engine had died, all of us would have been drifting in the open water. No one knew where we had gone. I also said I would NEVER go back to this dive site. Bad Karma.
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Re: Diving the Chikuzen
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03/01/2020 11:38 AM
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Great info! This is what I was looking for. Any details are always important details when it comes to diving!
🙏 Hi Artifactual. I would reach out to Sunchaser Scuba based out of the Bitter End Yacht Club on Virgin Gorda. They dive the Chikuzen almost whenever conditions allow, and I know they very recently (since the start of 2020) actually went out and replaced the mooring ball for the dive site. Ben and Kay who run the shop, would definitely be great sources of advice for you.
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