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gwbuild
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Posted: Wed Feb 25th, 2009 04:44 pm |
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I was going to do some shore diving today, but its a red tide. Have never been in the water with a red tide before, so I 'passed' this morning.
Anyone know details about diving in this? I guess I'm nervous about picking up some funky bacteria or something.
Or maybe its just bad ju-ju to be in the water during this time. Since I dive solo I'm not getting good vibe off it....
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Posted: Wed Feb 25th, 2009 11:23 pm |
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Like you, I think I would stay away from swimming/diving in water with a Red Tide Bloom.
A few web sites said that there could be skin irritation and the CDC said there could be problems breathing the air around a red tide bloom.
http://www.cdc.gov/hab/about.htm
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Posted: Thu Feb 26th, 2009 04:44 am |
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Visibility sucks anyway in a red tide. Another reason not to dive in it.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26th, 2009 05:09 am |
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Generally, you can't see anything, so hardly worth the bother.
If in deeper water, such as the Island, you can get below the red tide into cleaner water, but only one way to find out.
I've not had any ill effects or reaction.
Does anybody know if it's red at the Island?
Thanks!
Acwaman
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 09:04 pm |
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| Hi we have been out diving for the last 3 days and what you are experiencing is not a red tide. The plankton levels around our local dive sites are exceedingly high right now. You may want to try going out to San Pedro Island as we found 40'-60' of viz out there yesterday at window rock on the back side of San Pedro. But, t6he water temp at depth was 58 degrees. A little chilly, but great non-the-less
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Posted: Sat Mar 14th, 2009 04:21 am |
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Doesn't answer you question, but an interesting article from the University of AZ about Red Tide.
http://uanews.org:80/node/24483
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