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Dewit2it · (This post was last modified: 05-28-2006, 09:23 PM by Dewit2it.)

Today Puddie and I sunk four of the miners and got direction tags on 3 of them.Â Viz and kids stopped us from putting out Miner #5.Â Â At Miner #3 at 29', the viz was down to around 5' or less.Â Everyone and their brother was out there, and there was almost no parking left when we left at 4:00.Â

I ran a check dive to see if the headings were correct.Â The heading from Miner #1 to Miner #2 may be 40 degrees instead of 45, due to the buoy drifting a bit.Â 2 to 3 and 3 to 4, came out right on the head.Â Miner #3 is at 29' instead of 26'.Â I'll have to change that card.Â Miner #4 has a buoy attached with flourescent orange line.Â It is currently submerged, and will be used later to install Miner #5.Â So for now the course ends at Miner #4.

05-29-2006, 08:06 AM,

Cool to have something else out there!

There is a compass course in Sunset lake in Portage county as well. I don't remember the exact headings to the first marker anymore... perhaps Doug does?

Dewit2it · (This post was last modified: 05-31-2006, 02:15 PM by Dewit2it.)

Miner #2 has been stolen! > Sad

Please put him back!

I'll get a missing child picture up as soon as the film gets processed and I get home from work.

FreediveWI · 05-31-2006, 02:18 PM,

I'll start checking milk cartons. Wink

**Chris H** · 05-31-2006, 02:43 PM,

Perhaps that meant the coordinates were correct? Wink

Dewit2it · 05-31-2006, 09:44 PM,

Here it is! :'(

gfmayhew · 06-01-2006, 08:33 AM,

That's just rude. I was looking forward to seeing the little guys in a couple of weeks. :'(

Dewit2it · 06-13-2006, 11:14 PM,

Stopped in yesterday and Miners #1 and 4 still in position. The tag on #1 had moved position, so somebody has looked at it. Thanks for leaving it in position! Big Grin

I have picked up a new Miner #2 and have painted him, and will get him out there soon.

awvanwyn · 06-14-2006, 08:44 AM,

A group of 5 of us from the Madison area were up there on Sunday ( there were several other groups as well) and we ran across miners #1 and #4. I'm been lurking around the forum for a while; I'm glad I saw this thread before I went up there. Otherwise I would have thought my nav skills were crap when I read the card and then couldn't find #2! Smile

Dewit2it, thanks for putting up the course; it will be pretty cool once you've got everybody back in position.

BTW, this is my first post: I'm Adam from Madison, 40 dives half salt, half fresh, AOW. My goal for the summer is to visit some Lake Michigan wrecks-- outsides only Wink

Adam

Dewit2it · 07-08-2006, 08:03 AM,

I stopped in on Thursday and found Miner #1 was moved near the exit point, but the kids couldn't get him out of the water. It was a pretty hard swim dragging the equivalent of a cinder block on snorkel. Looks like I'll have to get a pnumatic hammer drill and lag shield him to the rock. Either that or I'll get some 1" lead plate and weight him down. Wish I could grab some of the 60# lead fly system counterweights at the FCPAC. Viz is around 12-15'.