2011July23 Tensaw River Bridge Scuba Dive off Alabama (1 of 4)
Channel: MarkPrimo
Date: 2011-07-25

This is part 1 of 4 of a Scuba Diving Trip I made with my 3 Sons, Ben (17), Paul (16), and Luke (14) on July 23, 2011. All of my boys have been diving since they were allowed to take the course at 10 years old. We usually head off Mississippi but decided to go East off Alabama and see if we could find some better water. Mississippi Water always seems to have a muck layer at the bottom (This was not the case decades back) and we wanted to find some new diving spots. The Tensaw Bridge Spans have always been on my Dive List since I heard about their deployment in 1994 (Gee time flys by). The Bridge Spans were deployed intact at 6 different locations. After not finding them at the first 2 locations, we made dives at 2 other locations successfully. We also made a dive on the D.R. Dunlop Atlantic Dry Dock (see other Video) and Paul made a Dive on an M60 Army Tank. All these Public Reefs are doing surprisingly well considering all the recent fishing pressure due to the short Red Snapper Season that ended July 18. In fact the Red Snapper look like an infestation on all these reefs as well as Rig VK79 which we also made Dives on. The regulatory agencies need to reevaluate these populations. There is no shortage of these fish whatsoever.See the pictures at the primofish website.