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| 816.1 | Small marker? | KAHALA::SUTER | We dun't need no stinkin' skis! | Fri Apr 05 1991 12:56 | 21 |
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re: .0
>I have been telling divers NOT to submerge in the Concord without a
>canoe or other boat as surface support (the surface person's role is to
>scream, wave, whatever to let a powerboat driver know to slow down and
>keep a distance), but there is no telling how many divers will listen
>to that advice. The season is just starting, and a lot of divers have
>started to talk about diving the Concord.
Does this mean that divers might be found on the river with
*only* a dive flag/buoy? Am I incorrect in assumming that this is
a ball about 8-12 inches across with a 12 inch dive flag?
Even if a boater isn't considered one of the yahoos, couldn't
it be quite difficult to see a marker of this size? For instance,
if a boat was operated directly into the sun? I don't think I'd
want to pop up from under water with only such a marking. I'd
insist on a boat above....
Rick
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| 816.2 | Good to fish, not dive | KITS::ZEREGA | | Fri Apr 05 1991 15:01 | 7 |
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I fish the concord river nightly, off my bass boat. Where
the HECK is there any water deep enough to DIVE!!!!!!!!!
I think you mean WADE. Why not try walden pond.
Another prop for good old Concord river.
AL:
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| 816.3 | YOU can try Walden. Please do. | GEMVAX::HICKSCOURANT | | Fri Apr 05 1991 16:04 | 32 |
| re: .2
Can't dive Walden Pond even if we wanted to: it's against the law.
If all I want to do is dive, I go to Cape Ann or one of the lakes.
>> Where the HECK is there any water deep enough to DIVE!!!!!!!
River diving is not for the aquatic tourist or the faint of body and
heart. But it IS what you have to do if you are capable of it and you
love the river. (Was that YOUR outboard I found in the middle of the
Great Meadows stretch a couple weeks ago?)
What you see on the surface is a mere reflection of the sky. What's
underneath is what the river is all about. THAT is why somebody dives
in a river.
*I* know what the Concord River looks like. Do you?
Want to help save it?
It's been in restoration for a long time now, but the job isn't even
half done yet. THAT'S why we dive in the Concord River.
re: .1
Any boat operator who moves into the sun at more than headway speed on
a river is asking for trouble, even if there weren't divers around.
You're essentially right about the dimensions of the dive flag. Please
look out for it. An accident will kill the diver and ruin your life. If
a dive flag was displayed and you hit a diver, the fine line between
second degree murder and manslaughter is tough one to discern.
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| 816.5 | Concord River Boaters! | GEMVAX::HICKSCOURANT | | Fri Aug 02 1991 09:59 | 28 |
| It just occurred to me this morning to enter this, but so far
everything has been OK, and there hasn't been a need for this note yet.
The Divers' Environmental Survey has marked off about 100 yards of the
Concord River around the Old Middlesex Turnpike Bridge abutments in
Billerica. The markers are two 150-foot segments (one up- and the other
downstream of the area in question) of 0.25-inch yellow polypropylene
rope. This floating rope is anchored to the bottom with rocks, (and
should stay high enough off the bottom so divers have no trouble seeing
it).
However, there is always the possibility that for some reason one or
both of them *could* get dislodged.
This could be nuisance to any boater on the river, among other things.
So, I ask all of you who put your boat in the Concord River and travel
downstream of the Rte. 3 bridge:
If you see a segment of yellow rope floating in the river, please send
me mail and tell me where you saw it. I will go retrieve it by the end
of the day.
GEMVAX::HICKSCOURANT is my e-mail address.
Thank you.
John H-C
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| 816.6 | Anybody still have a boat in the water? | GEMVAX::JOHNHC | | Mon Oct 21 1991 13:43 | 18 |
| Does anybody still have a boat in Boston Harbor?
If you do, might you be interested in helping the Divers' Environmental
Survey and the Save The Harbor/Save The Bay Foundation (the folks who
figured out that the EPA had the Foul Zone coordinates wrong) as they
begin the Middle Islands Monitoring Project?
We're looking for somebody willing to haul four divers out to the
Georges Island area so they can spend half an hour underwater at each
of four sites. We will gladly pay your fuel costs.
All of the dive charters have pulled their boats out of the water, so
we're scrambling trying to find transportation for this weekend's
dives. We would be done by noon. Either Saturday or Sunday.
Thanks.
John H-C
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