Omicron
06-28-2004, 06:40 AM
There's a new "attraction" in Red Granite.
A while back some friends of mine found a plastic dumpster in the deep hole (119') of Red Granite. This weekend, we decided to raise it.
We went down to the dumpster and got a couple of lift bags on it. While George and I were tying on a 100lb bag, Al was filling the 250lb bag. We weren't sure how much we needed so we had a few more 250's and a 500 at the ready.
All it took was the 250 though - as soon as Al got that one filled, the corner started moving up while George and I were getting the 100 ready. Next thing you know, the dumpster is moving past us and we are all looking at each other and a trail of silt
We did a free ascent and followed the silt upwards - hung out for three minutes at 20 and then went to the surface. There was the dumpster - we hauled it over to the shallows again and re-sunk it.
We spent our second dive filling it with rocks - not sure how many we got in there, because after hauling around all these rocks we silted the living crud out of the place.
It was fun - now we need to find something else on the deep end...there's nothing to look at over there anymore
A while back some friends of mine found a plastic dumpster in the deep hole (119') of Red Granite. This weekend, we decided to raise it.
We went down to the dumpster and got a couple of lift bags on it. While George and I were tying on a 100lb bag, Al was filling the 250lb bag. We weren't sure how much we needed so we had a few more 250's and a 500 at the ready.
All it took was the 250 though - as soon as Al got that one filled, the corner started moving up while George and I were getting the 100 ready. Next thing you know, the dumpster is moving past us and we are all looking at each other and a trail of silt
We did a free ascent and followed the silt upwards - hung out for three minutes at 20 and then went to the surface. There was the dumpster - we hauled it over to the shallows again and re-sunk it.
We spent our second dive filling it with rocks - not sure how many we got in there, because after hauling around all these rocks we silted the living crud out of the place.
It was fun - now we need to find something else on the deep end...there's nothing to look at over there anymore