Category Archives: Club Dives

Some times the best visibility you have in a lake or river is when you have it covered in ice. The water is not agitated by wind, boaters, fishermen, water skiing and wave action. So in an effort to capitalize more »

Diving The Rockaway – South Haven, Michigan The marine forecast had been calling for lake conditions that would have been less than comfortable the whole weekend so an alternate site, Lake 16, was chosen for a Sunday afternoon dive. Checking more »

In South West Michigan, least ways in our area, ice thickness on local lakes has not been to the depths that ice divers associate with being thick enough for groups of  divers to make a hole big enough to have an more »

The last dive of 2016 and the first dive of January 1, 2017. Held at Hidden Valley Pond in Niles, Michigan. Divers in the water: Kevin Ailes, Joshua Snyder, Larry Steelman, Ken Riemer, Don McAlhany. Surface Support: Mary Beth Thar, more »

Bob Sweeney and Kevin Ailes were undergoing extreme symptoms of diver withdrawal and needed to get wet quick. Of all the places around they traveled Gull Lake in Ross Town ship. The only place open was the Prairie View boat more »

Jim Scholz and I were out checking dive sites for the New Years Midnight Dive. Hidden Valley Pond is freezing over but has only ~ 2″ of ice so far. The St. Joseph river at the Marmont street launch is more »

Today’s dive was in Niles but the current below the dam was very fast, the water high and visibility VERY low. So we went above the dam to the Bond street kayak launch where the visibility looked good UNTIL you more »

Saturday, November 26-2016, “TURKEY DIVE” was held at 12:00 (High Noon) in the Saint Joseph river, Benton Harbor at Fisherman’s Park.  (next to the new Whirlpool Complex).   It was a great dive with 7 divers and several people on more »

This dive was made in the old ship canal where it meets the Paw Paw River and at the location of the old railroad bridge crossing now long gone.  Visibility in the shallows was maybe 3 feet until you touched more »

On Saturday Kevin Ailes took a roadtrip to see the “Salinac Shores Preserve”. Diving the “Regina” and “Price” which were both lost during the “Great Storm” of November 9, 1913. Both had been on Kevin’s list to dive for a more »

Today’s Niles river pickings were slim. But there were a few interesting objects brought from the depths.  Divers and support included: Mary Beth, Deb W, Rob K, Karen M, Jake T and Mack. MB found a watch but the only more »