Well I did 2 dives at Haigh Quarry today. I went out to Haigh without a dive buddy as Joe had to work, but I was only there about 10 minutes when Tina Haigh came down to my usual set up location with another diver without a buddy so we teamed up.

Dive 1 site name Tim’s Dive ( ya have to name it something)   Depth of 24 feet for 48 minutes. Vis was 20 feet at best and closer to 15 most of the way do to an algae bloom taking place.

Dive 2 was along the West Wall at a depth of 31 feet for 41 minutes. The highlight of this dive was a close encounter with a very big Paddle Fish.  I mean this thing was a good 4.5 feet long and  swam right at us at a depth about 25 feet and swam past us about 3 feet away. It was truly awesome.

Don't ask if I got a picture  :\\\'(  my batteries in the camera died early in the dive.) I am so pi$$ed cause I doubt if such a great photo op will ever present itself again. I mean this thing was 3 feet away as he swam past us at our exact depth. Well I guess I can only help.

Even missing the photo op of the Paddle Fish it was a great day at Haigh and I met and made another great Dive Buddy.

Have you gone down lately?

Dean,

I did not know the Shed donated more Paddlefish, how many did they donate and do you have any idea how many are in the quarry.

I have been diving for 2 years now and most of the diving has been at Haigh. I have about 40 logged dives at Haigh and last year did not see a single Paddle.

This year I have seen them 5 or 6 times and still have not gotten a picture of one, but yesterday was heart breaking to say the least.

This fish was heading right at me at about 25 foot depth and swam past me at the same depth as I was and about 3 or 4 feet away. What an oppertunity wasted. I could cry.

I will not give up on this quest of photographing a Paddlefish and hope by the end of this season to have at least one.

Dive Safe and Dive Often.

Have you gone down lately?

Dean cool pictures could you by chance E-mail them to me so I can see them full size

timcr810@sbcglobal.net

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Glad to hear you enjoyed Haigh.  I am diving there this weekend.  This will be my first time at HQ.

Steve

Howdy!

George I try to dive Haigh at least every other weekend, if you ever need a dive buddy E-mail me @ timcr810@sbcglobal.net

To learn of my dive experience go to www.xanga.com/scubatim for write ups and pictures of my diving

Have you gone down lately?

Have you gone down lately?