Posted by tleemay on July 26, 2001 at 15:48:41:
In Reply to: Re: Time to upgrade my library posted by Jeff B on July 26, 2001 at 14:01:10:
At Edison, the campground beach is gravel
with enough slope to get you to 50' of water in
no time. If you can get up to the East end of the
lake, there are supposed to be some old steam
boilers in about 60'. Look in the area of where
the river (Tammarack?) dumps in.
On Huntington, it's best to take a boat from the
launch ramp and travel straight across the lake
South towards the cove where BSA Camp Miramichi
is. In the middle of that channel in 50'-60' of
water are quite a few rag hangers that hit the
lone pine island transversing the lake during
any one of the MANY regattas. At the other end,
West towards the dam, there is a 1950's era bomber
wreck that's deep in the 170' range. It was
supposed to have gone down in the 60's some time.
John Gordon also knows of this wreck, perhaps
he will chime in. Since it's in VERY cold fresh
water, it should still be well preserved. Near
where the river dumps into Huntington,
downstream from one of the hydro stations, there
are huge concrete building forms in the lake.
These were used when they built the hydro stations
(the entire lake system in the area is one HUGE
power generating system). The area where the
forms are is tough to dive except during the
early Fall months when the river flows are at
it's slowest - otherwise it's a ripping current
dive in poor vis.
If you can get the coffee table book titled "The
Edison Project", you can get even more clues of
what's below those lakes' water lines.
Problem with Huntington though, it's one huge
silt if you hit bottom. Edison has more of a rough
gravel bottom. I have spend many dives on the
sailboats and even the one power boat we saw
(the Spoiler) that looks like it had burned.