Isle Royale--RLT

[Shooter]

  WOW! What an awsome trip!  It more than exceeded my expectations.  My hats are off to the Great Lakes shipwreck preservation society for the work that they have done in preserving the shipwrecks.  To be able to see the shipwrecks intact with all the artifacts still there was an incredible experience!  Much more so than the desire  to have one of these artifacts on my bookshelf.  Up until this point, the majority of my diving had consisted of underwater hunting with local diving being here just to get my fix until I could get to some salt water diving.  Things have drastically changed over the course of the last week.  The hook is set deep on diving the Great Lakes and exploring shipwrecks. I don't see it being removed until I have explored them all multiple times and look forward to my technical training to accomplish this goal. To be floating through intact rooms, hallways, with ceilings in complete darkness was very exciting to say the least.

I was on the RLT 3 diver boat, and they did an incredible job of making the trip even better. Excellent food and accommodations.  We only had four divers and two crew,  So was very comfortable.  They were very knowledgeable about all of the dive sites, gave us excellent dive briefings and told us where to locate hot spots to see on the dive.  It was also very important to me that they were not the DIVE POLICE. They made recommendations, but they allowed me to dive my program, at my pace.  The instructor on the boat (R2) was very knowledgeable,  I learned alot from him and look forward to diving with him again soon.

This trip is a must for any hard-core(even medium core) Minnesota diver and gets the shooter full 30 round clip rating!

I shot lots of video on thes trip and will try to post a link over the next week or two.