bonneville sea base
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Topic: bonneville sea base
Posted By: larseb
Subject: bonneville sea base
Date Posted: September 17 2012 at 8:50pm
| What do you guys know about this? |
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Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: September 17 2012 at 9:20pm
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Seabase is the coolest idea ever. They have fairly deep ponds with marine fish and sharks in them that you can dive in. They rent scuba gear and many scuba classes are taught out there by dive shops. Unfortunately, the coolest idea's sometimes don't pan out as cool as you may wish. The water is very murky and at times you have mere inches or even zero visibility. If you go out to view it without the intention of diving, at first you feel like, "Wow, I drove all the way out here for this?  " But if you spend some time you may catch a glimpse of some pretty cool fish other than the thousands upon thousands of Mollies that shoal at the shoreline. Some of the fish are VERY large, the ones I saw last time I was there were 3 to 4 feet long. If you find out when they are feeding and go out at that time you are far more likely to see the fish, or at least that is what I am told, I've never been for a feeding.All in all worth the drive to check it out, but don't expect it to compare to the Living Planet or anything. If you are looking to view beautiful tanks make the trip to Sandy instead, but if you would like to see something a little unusual in the West Desert it is something you don't see every day. |
Posted By: larseb
Date Posted: September 17 2012 at 10:39pm
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whose idea was this it sound really interesting? |
Posted By: Fatman
Date Posted: September 17 2012 at 11:05pm
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Dove there a year ago, first and last time. No viz, lost my partner, thought I was about 20 feet down and the computer showed me at 5 feet. Couldn't tell because it was so murky, even worse than blue lake. Not for me and I love to dive, hell I'd even dive in a swimming pool just to dive. ------------- February 4: Winter Banquet at the Living Planet Aquarium Tickets: http://utahreefs.com/store/index.php?route=product/category&path=36 |
Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 8:58am
| I'm not sure who's idea it was. You can learn more at http://www.seabase.net" rel="nofollow - www.seabase.net |
Posted By: backwards32
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 4:00pm
| I dove there as well. the visibility was very bad but like Will said there are some interesting fish. I was there when they feed the Large Tuna they have. They but us in the shallow water and then threw food all around us. it was very cool. the fish were jumping out of the water and right in our face. but the visibility is so bad that when I was diving i felt something weird on the bottom of the pond. so i got real close to see what it was. next thing i know I am dace to face with a 7 foot shark. |