Penny Royal Web Page

[DeepDiverBob]

http://www.pennyroyalscuba.com/

[CBKinger]

Thanks for the info!

[DeepDiverBob]

No prob. I have been there once. I would like to go back and see more of it.

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Pennyroyal is the best quarry dive anywhere I've been (which isn't much, but still...).

Deep (100-125), Clear (60+), cool stuff sunk to play with, and natural formations that are fun too, like 30 foot trees in the forest with algae drapped like some monster movie, tall grass field still with old animal trails that you can get down is and follow through the tall grasses as if in a maze, white smoke drifting in huge clouds along the deep bottom, and black clouds too that swallow you so that your buddy watches you disappear, then sees your body-less head stick up as you go vertical to look around just above the black cloud. Underwater walls, plateaus, deep holes full of wiggling silt, but not too many fish. You know, if someone would catch those big fish like they have at mermet and put in Pennyroyal, that would be something!

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oh, i didn't mention the shallow area (35 feet or so) with the lines tied to various things, like the huey helicopter, tubes to swim through, and the pogo stick. trying to pogo underwater is a real challenge. Mike jumped over the helicopter, but I crashed right into it!

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[murph]

I was at Pennyroyal this last Sunday. The vis in the shallows was 3' and probably 20' in the deep. A couple of weeks ago they sank a 30' cabin cruiser. It now lays at 96'. It's right next to the wall. They have plans of moving it out, but either way, now it has a buoy and line attached to it for easy identification from the surface.

There's plans in the works to acquire a couple of more large boats damaged by Katrina and be sunk in the deep parts. Apparently insurance companies are looking for volunteers who will accept delivery of these extremely damaged boats.