The three swampdivers
For the July swampdive it was time to try Toledo Bend again.This time
we actually made it, even though it turned out to be only three people
going: me, Hedde and Richard. Mike Lester was sick and couldn't go. He
just drove by our meeting place Saturday morning to give me the O2 kit
and diveflag and wish us luck. We followed Mike's directions and found
the Toledo Bend divecenter without any problems after an eventless 5 hour
trip (including stops). A little long, but not too bad. We got directions
at the shop for a good divesite at the spillway next to the Toledo Bend
Reservoar dam on the Louisiana side. It's a divesite with at least three
diveplatforms and several sunken boats. It even had lines going between
them. There is parking for only a few cars there, but fortunately there
was only one guy there ahead of us - and he took a cab to get there! On the Saturday
dive we found two platforms and a boat: "Titanic" with a motorcycle parked
next to it. It was a very shallow dive with a depth of around 20-25 feet.
The water temperature was a balmy 90+ degrees above the thermocline and
a cool 80+ below the thermocline. The thermocline was a few feet of the
bottom so we constantly went above and below it.There were a few fish but
very little else to see. But the big thing with this dive was that Hedde
had now made 5 swampdive and was an official swampdiver. Congratulations!
<More to come...>
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