This trip was a blast...and while I did not find as many trophy finds as I did last year...I did find some great teeth....including prehistoric sand tigers, camel, horse, bison and more!
None of my bottle were old...but they looked pretty cool! And my biggest tooth was only about 4 inches. I did find one that was very BLONDE in incredible condition and it was awesome!
We had 2 boats this year and while we usually dove different sites...we did hook up for lunch each day. Our captains were OTWDiver and NCDiver43. Our crew was myself and Dan...will need to get him a screen name...any ideas for a good one???
The boats rocked with laughter which was great...the water was calm and warm (about 82-84 degrees) and most of the time the current was not to stiff...except for one dive where the power company opened up the flood gates and it was SCREAMING!!!
But all the divers simply ascended and we put them onto another site!
Diving the Cooper is really very cool. It is a night dive in the middle of the day and the possibility of finding a rare treasure is so compelling that as Anthony aka NJBerserker said...the Addiction Overcomes the Fear! I spoke with OTWDiver and with Anthony's permission that will be the next Cooper River T-shirt!
Now to find an artsy person to help finalize the artwork!
But back to the trip...the normal captains take 4-6 divers so to have this rowdy crew of 12 was pretty amazing to most of the local diving community! I know it sure was to Johny who we rented our tanks from. We rented every tank he owned and kept him up til midnight doing fills!
But he was so thrilled that he asked me for a stickter to put on his boat...and there were NO stickers on that boat so we felt very special. When I asked him why he said I gave him more business in 4 days then he normally gets in 2 weekends from all his clients combined. WOW! Pretty
Well I'm about ready to post next year's trip so hopefully we can do it 3 years in a row!!!