Tioga Mine Pit

[lahrcm]

Doug and I made the journey up to Grand Rapids yesterday to dive Tioga. It was well worth the trip.

We did two dives from the public access on the east side. For tank one, we went straight out and down the slope looking for the wall. Visibility was all of 60' or better down to 50' or so when we ran into a layer of milky water. Around 70' the milk went a way, phenomenal visibitly returned, and we found the wall. The wall goes straight down and meets the bottom at 145'. The bottom slowly falls away over 30 yards where another mini wall can be found around 170'. The mini wall bottoms out around 200'. Visibility was fantastic even at these depths, no light required. Next we headed south and ascended the wall. We came across a wooden structure that has a 30 06 rifle chained to it. I think it's about 50'. Other than that we didn't see too much in shallows, a few trees, no fish.

Tank two started out the same but this time we went north. We found the wall corner where it makes a 90 and heads west. From there we made our way to shallow water and finished out the dive. There were a few more trees this way but still no fish.

Here's a short video I put together, the footage is from both dives. Enjoy.