Iron Range Diving

[Shooter]

We hit the range the last two weekends to check out some of MN other diving attractions. Focused most of our dives on ore-be-gone last weekend as it was a one day trip. Nothing was marked except the chopper and the bouy was a couple feet under the water. Dove the trolley cars, boat, and forklift, but couldn't find the plane or bus. We searched in vain for "lake mine" to dive some of the submerged bldgs we heard were pretty cool. The place we ended up at last sat was called Embarrass pit. A little more research last week and found these are one in the same. On Sat we headed to lake mine aka embarras pit! Had a hard time finding the structure, but when we did it was spectacular! Vis was 25-35' nice and blue! Thought I might have time/dream traveled and ended up in the Bahamas by the looks of the water. Hitting the themoclines was a brisk wake up call back to reality and MN!  ;D After a couple deep dives on Embarrass Pit/ Lake Mine and an alien encounter at 100'  :o we headed to St James pit and dove there. Some nice wall drops and a lot of "sign of life" diver stacked rock piles, but not much else. vis was a little more hazy/milky and about 20'. Mosquito's were INSANE!

Sun we dove ore-be-gone and the plane on the way home but haven't found the bus yet. Looks like someone added bouys to the attractions since the weekend of the 4th. Vis was pretty snotty and bad at about 15'. It rained a lot on sat night. Vis Was better the weekend of the fourth.
DIVE, DIVE, DIVE!