Hi William; The visibility here on the sunken Island of Antirhodos, where all the Ptolemaic Kings, Queens, and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt lived, is 1 meter this morning. That means you can't see your feet or what is around them when you are standing up, eg to carry a basket of rocks away from the site you are working at. Be careful! But can make out shapes and shadows, hopefully before you run into things. It is not really dark here, except at the bottom of a deep excavation, and directly under the ship. The water temperature 26 degrees C. In our wet suits we might get cold, if we weren’t running around all over the place and working hard. North East wind brings a swell into the Harbor which pushes us back and forth on the bottom, and stirs up sediment that reduces the visibility. The maximum depth we will encounter today is 8 Meters. Here is a link to a map of the Sunken Royal Quarters of Ancient Alexandria
I tried answering Williams Questions by describing my morning dive today, but ended up with a document too long to post. So I'll just cover part of his question now, and add some more soon.
Hi William; The visibility here on the sunken Island of Antirhodos, where all the Ptolemaic Kings, Queens, and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt lived, is 1 meter this morning. That means you can't see your feet or what is around them when you are standing up, eg to carry a basket of rocks away from the site you are working at. Be careful! But can make out shapes and shadows, hopefully before you run into things. It is not really dark here, except at the bottom of a deep excavation, and directly under the ship. The water temperature 26 degrees C. In our wet suits we might get cold, if we weren’t running around all over the place and working hard. North East wind brings a swell into the Harbor which pushes us back and forth on the bottom, and stirs up sediment that reduces the visibility. The maximum depth we will encounter today is 8 Meters. Here is a link to a map of the Sunken Royal Quarters of Ancient Alexandria
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Kelly Boll
10/24/2011 02:48:29 am
Hey Eric,
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Margaret
10/28/2011 03:24:37 am
In some of the underwater photos (like the one in the article under the Bombs category)....it seems the visibility is quite a bit more than 1 meter. Does it clear up a bit sometimes?
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Yes Margaret you are very astute in your observation. The visibility does change a lot, and if you look at the photos you might get the impression that I am full of boloni in my reports, but the fact is that the photographers can only work when the visi' is good, and they are often marooned for long periosds of time waiting for the visi' to be good enough to capture the essence of one of the subjects that the divers have uncovered.
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Lee Frank
11/28/2011 11:02:25 pm
I lived in Venezuela for over 20 yrs and cant believe the resemblance between these countries. I see it in everything, architecture, climate, way of life even the physical appearance of the people. The only real difference is History.
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