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Trip Report from Austria: Fernsteinsee/Samarangersee

Started Oct 23, 2020 | Discussions thread
PHXAZCRAIG
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Re: Trip Report from Austria: Fernsteinsee/Samarangersee

kelpdiver wrote:

PHXAZCRAIG wrote:

When I first started diving as a teenager in 1971, I made my 4th open water dive with my father in Balman Resevoir in Colorado. It's up near treeline at 9400 feet (around 2870m).

My memory of that dive was that it was very green. Nothing much to see but green. Of course back then I had no prescription mask and I'm quite near-sighted, so I never did see much on my first 4 dives. After that one I took a 35-year break from diving.

reservoirs can differ from natural lakes in that we inhibit water leaving, sometimes for half the year. Though I have seen dammed lakes that still seem very clear, so there's more to it than just that.

I have to say that I've never been diving in a clear lake.

I did open water in Colorado Springs Prospect Lake, in December.  Totally mudded out - visibility only to my wrist.

35 years later I did PADI open water in Saguaro Lake in Phoenix, and my trainer told me not to let go of my weight belt during an exercise because it would disappear in the muck we were kneeling and be lost.  I did rescue dives in Lake Pleasant that had 6-8 foot visibility.

All but the reservoir stunk of exhaust smell from motorboats.

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