Lake Michigan diving

[FreediveWI]

DIVE KAYAK! ;D

Get yourself a dive kayak and open ujp a whole new world to yourself. I use mine all the time for scuba/freediving. There are many lakes that you can really only dive by divekayak- Beaver Lake is one of them.

The Bond is on the outside of the breakwall on the south side of the harbor. She rests in 39' of water and usually has a buoy on her. Jerry Guyer found her, with his sidescan sonar, a few years ago and now uses her to do openwater training dives.

The Sumatra lies both inside and outside of the breakwall. Look at teh relief gap by the main gap- the one on the southside of the enterance. There is wreckage on both sides of the wall at that location.

You could also stop in at Pirate's Cove and pick up one of Jerry's wreck books for the number- I carry a GPS on my dive kayak.

Another great spot to dive, with a kayak, is just outside the rubble wall off of South Shore Yacht club, another place where we do openwater check out dives. There is all kinds of stuff in there and it is a nice sand/gravel bottom for check out dives. In the middle of the summer the vis is always 20'-30' and the water gets up to 74 degrees- which blows away Lannon Quarry or any of the other Inland sites that we are stuck using otherwise.
I have also taught classes out there when the Salmon come into spawn, and die. It's kind of fun to hand a new student at 20 pound fish to hold as it slowly swims away.

Jon