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kozmik · 14th June 2006, 00:12

Hi there Jim Kozmik here ,we were the film team from National Geographic..we got to due ,2 hour rebreather dives on the Oriskany filming for the new show Sea of Steel,
It was a long run out in a small boat and 4 of us were on inspirations,evolutions and 1 optima...all went really well..it sank a little deeper then planed the deck is at 136 and dips deeper to the bow..very long swim with a big camera housing.I got to shoot 80 minutes of High defintion broadcast material on it..great visibility..probably 100 ft.The only thing is that all our wetsuits were covered in light blue navy deck paint when we surfaced.
We did not have alot of time to explore the lower deck bay..probably at 170 plus feet..this will be a awesome wrecktech dive throughout the decks.

The only weirdness is they are not planning to put marker boat bouys on it..I don,t get that but,in those rough seas out there, there will be dive deaths on this wreck if not carefull.What they are also lacking are big allday dive charter boats out of Pensacola perhaps a opportuniy there for a dive shop.

14th June 2006, 00:12	#5 (permalink)
kozmik New Member Current Rebreather/s: Evolution Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: canada toronto Posts: 13	Re: Anybody dove the Oriskany? Hi there Jim Kozmik here ,we were the film team from National Geographic..we got to due ,2 hour rebreather dives on the Oriskany filming for the new show Sea of Steel, It was a long run out in a small boat and 4 of us were on inspirations,evolutions and 1 optima...all went really well..it sank a little deeper then planed the deck is at 136 and dips deeper to the bow..very long swim with a big camera housing.I got to shoot 80 minutes of High defintion broadcast material on it..great visibility..probably 100 ft.The only thing is that all our wetsuits were covered in light blue navy deck paint when we surfaced. We did not have alot of time to explore the lower deck bay..probably at 170 plus feet..this will be a awesome wrecktech dive throughout the decks. The only weirdness is they are not planning to put marker boat bouys on it..I don,t get that but,in those rough seas out there, there will be dive deaths on this wreck if not carefull.What they are also lacking are big allday dive charter boats out of Pensacola perhaps a opportuniy there for a dive shop.
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