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Greg - 8/09/2013 10:11 AM 
Build up your buddy list man! Use the Member Search page to find divers around the areas you want to dive. Then when you’re ready to dive, use the Messages section to send all your buddies a message.
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You can add me, you can join us at dutch springs when we go. Probably not going until september.
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From Don_Juan: I plan to go 8/17 dutch springs with my 10 yr old new cert diver
If you have not been there before, try the student area. As you enter turn left. past the locker rooms.
Most of the parking is taken up early by the dive shops. The entry is easy there and max depth is only about 30’, until you get far out. There’s a fire truck sunk, and you can hand feed the bass. The area is along the left side of the quarry, and is easy to spot as there a stairs by which you can walk into about a foot of water.
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You can add me bro! I’m not sure how much diving I will be doing until next season right now, money is a bit tight, but that will loosen up by then. I would LOVE to do Laurel, I think I contacted you about that one last summer even. Good deal man!
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I know that many State Park lakes are open to diving. Most of what I have learned tells me that these lakes are featureless and not worth the effort to dive. Would Laurel Lake (or any other park lake) be an exception to this?
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I’m not sure about Laurel, I’ve kayaked it, and up around the ’canal’ where the water is shallower (few feet to 5 feet or so) the water is pretty clear, although it has that brownish tea color (Tannic) from the decaying vegetation. So I would assume that in the deeper portions it’s going to filter the light pretty bad.
I have been told, haven’t gone myself, that Fuller lake (also in Pine Grove Furnace State Park) is pretty good. It’s an old quarry I believe and they let you dive there, as well as there is a swimming area there (keep the families occupied ;-). I’ve been wanting to do that one for a few years.
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I actually stopped by the park office at Ricket’s Glenn, lake Jean, and talk to one of the Rangers.
She said people dive it from time to time but don’t often return to dive because it’s a boring dive.
But we have a place near to the park so I thought I’d check it out.
I don;t think I can convince my Dive Buddy to travel form Delaware to Northeast Pa. to dive a featureless lake.
You must have a Dive Buddy, or Solo certification, and check in at the park office before diving.
There are no other accommodations of than allowing you access.
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Wow, they allow solo with a cert? I want to go that route in the future, I get so sick of trying to line up a buddy to do things with, because I want to (and do) go off the beaten path a bit. My buddy for those lives near Baltimore and aligning schedules takes some time usually. Or, I need someone who dives AND kayaks to get to a location. Or is willing to hike up a mountain with gear (last weekend). Etc.
I don’t much care about not seeing anything, blowing bubbles and finding out what is in there is enough for me. I’d blow bubbles in the bath tub if it was just a few feet deeper.
As long as I am mentioning kayaks, I want to ’drift dive’ this. -> aslongasimalive.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/the-rock-garden-my-rock-garden/ when the water is low like the pictures show.
Also there is a creek called Pequea Creek that looks like it would work, but you have to paddle up creek from it’s confluence with the Susquehanna maybe a mile? Think that’s about right, and then you need surface support because there are homes and boats along here. Not sure what the vis would be for either of these. I have been in the previously mentioned one with a mask (rocks) and sunlight drops off after about 7 feet, but that’s about all the deeper it is too.
Just some ideas I have rolling around in my head that haven’t been completed yet.
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