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new guy in Milwaukee
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Pirate's Cove: Len-Der Charters, Great Lakes Scuba Diving, Milwaukee Area Shipwreck Diving, Charters to Willie, Drege No. 6, Milwaukee Carferry, Norland, Gillen Tug, etc.
They don't know anything about freediving there, but they allow freedivers on the boat for wreck diving charts- which is more than I can say for other boats around here.
If you want to order gear I would suggest getting in touch with jimdoe2you who is an active member on this site. He runs a freediving/spearfishing store and offers excellent service.
Check out the Wisconsin section and you'll see plenty of different activities in the works. The big one of the year is coming up next month (Freedive-a-palooza) and will take place up in Lake Wazee.
Jon
They don't know anything about freediving there, but they allow freedivers on the boat for wreck diving charts- which is more than I can say for other boats around here.
If you want to order gear I would suggest getting in touch with jimdoe2you who is an active member on this site. He runs a freediving/spearfishing store and offers excellent service.
Check out the Wisconsin section and you'll see plenty of different activities in the works. The big one of the year is coming up next month (Freedive-a-palooza) and will take place up in Lake Wazee.
Jon
Yep planning on going to the wazee lake event. Looking for camping for that right now.So they don't mind a tag along with no tanks on wreck dives. This is the best news I have heard in a long time. Ill be calling them first thing in the morning. Do you know if they dive on the Niagara? That is my next goal dive. I was planing on doing it alone but divers in the water would give me a great if false sense of security. It would be nice to at least have a light to aim at. Im a bit to spoiled by clear caribian water
cool... thats good news.. this is the kind of inside info i really need. Every thing i have read says its 50+ feet. Is it 35 to the top of the boiler? I have only been doing off shore swims in the lake to date. The only ships ive hit have been door co stuff and other boats that are more of a risk of stubing a toe on like the appomattox. Shallow stuff. Can you recomend any dives 60' or less in any big lake or little with in a tank of gas of milwaukee?
The boilers are far off the main wreckage site- and used to be attached by a rope. There's also some other planking off in another direction. The top of the main structure is only about 20'. There used to be these magnificent paddle wheels that cam up to within 15' of the surface, but they've been broken down over the past 25 years or so due to careless anchorage of certain dive charter boats. Just off the shore in Port Washington are the remains of another wreck. The name escapes me as it's been decades since I last dove it and there's not a lot of structure to it, but it's just a hsort jump from shore to the wreck site.
IF you've hit the Appomatax then you've already swam right past the Josaphine- she's in shallower just off the small steel pier to the north. IF you have a dive kayak, or small boat, there's a few wrecks in 40' of water within a mile or two of shore. Otherwise there are the wrecks of the Sebastopol and the Volunteer off of Bayview park. The remains of the old "Love Rock" aren't too far from McKinley marina and make for a pretty interesting dive- lots of fish and still a decent amount of structure on the bottom. We also used to dive the Northern Milwaukee water intake- it's massive! Since 9-11 it's been off limits for anything but repair crews, but it's still an impressive site. There are dozens of wrecks under 60', but a boat is needed to get to most of them.
If you want to drive to Moose Lake, there's a sunken barge in there to dive on. It's sitting in 25' of water and is always loaded with fish. The old access has been torn down and turned into condos, but there is still a very small public boat access on the south western shore. A boat would be best, and that's the weediest part of the lake, but it is possible to swim it. Lannon Quarry would be close to you. They don't have any wrecks in there, but there are old ore carts, tracks, and a broken down mining shack to explore.
Jon
IF you've hit the Appomatax then you've already swam right past the Josaphine- she's in shallower just off the small steel pier to the north. IF you have a dive kayak, or small boat, there's a few wrecks in 40' of water within a mile or two of shore. Otherwise there are the wrecks of the Sebastopol and the Volunteer off of Bayview park. The remains of the old "Love Rock" aren't too far from McKinley marina and make for a pretty interesting dive- lots of fish and still a decent amount of structure on the bottom. We also used to dive the Northern Milwaukee water intake- it's massive! Since 9-11 it's been off limits for anything but repair crews, but it's still an impressive site. There are dozens of wrecks under 60', but a boat is needed to get to most of them.
If you want to drive to Moose Lake, there's a sunken barge in there to dive on. It's sitting in 25' of water and is always loaded with fish. The old access has been torn down and turned into condos, but there is still a very small public boat access on the south western shore. A boat would be best, and that's the weediest part of the lake, but it is possible to swim it. Lannon Quarry would be close to you. They don't have any wrecks in there, but there are old ore carts, tracks, and a broken down mining shack to explore.
Jon
Welcome Reason. You've come to the right place, the Wisconsin spearos are real active on the forum. I've been to Milwaukee several times but never really saw much of the place - I did the triathlon there 2 or 3 times and some friends took us to a micro-brewery there, so I guess the beach and beer is what come to mind when I think of Milwaukee.