Folsom Lake dive this week

Is anyone interested in getting together and practicing some deeper dives at Folsom this week? We can start spearing carp May 1st.

whats the visibility like

I don't know. Water temp is 55.

yeah, good point.. bad vis (no dive).. good vis (dive)  LOL

What day are you thinking?

-Brian G

Wed-Fri. Wed anytime after noon. Thur or Friday in the morning. We can go out on the boat if someone wants to split the launch/gas.

Thur 10 am we will be out there.

What depths you plan on hitting?

If you touch the bottom you will pretty much disappear in a cloud of silt.
Many years ago I did my check out dive there. The silt cloud was ironically an eye opener as to what can happen down there yet was definitely a visibility closer. I couldn't see my dive instructor who was only a foot away. We waited it out until the cloud settled to continue the check out.

Yeah you can make quite a cloud if you sweep your fin near the bottom. We are just going to practice freedive for depth so it won't be an issue.

We are just going to practice freedive for depth so it won't be an issue.

I don't know your experience, but please be careful doing this.  A couple years ago a group of guys was doing this and one of them blacked out and drowned.  And all those guys had taken some sort of freediving course as well as being very experienced freedivers/spearfishermen.