Diving Ore-be-Gone Sept 28th & 29th

[LKunze]

Jason and I did three dives yesterday (two at Lake Ore Be Gone in Gilbert, MN and one at Lake Mine in Biwabik, MN) and had a great time. The first dive we did was at Ore Be Gone and Rick from Tall Pine Scuba hosted the dive. He showed Jason and I the two railroad speeders. I had my camera with on this dive and got some photos. Rick brought his awesome digital video camera system with as well and shot a little footage on the dive. I'll try and post my pics to my webshots site tonight. For the second dive Jason and I did a deep dive from the boat dock access. We went down to 117ft. Down just past 100 feet we came to a wall that must have just been starting around 100 feet because we didn't see it on our initial decent down. It was a pretty awesome dive but awfully cold! For the third dive we drove over to Lake Mine in Biwabik which is about 10 miles from Gilbert. We entered at a boat access and did a long shallow dive with a max depth of around 30ft. and found numerous junk items along the bottom. Several chairs, a big wooden wire spool, several trees and tree trunks, beer bottles, etc. and we also found a dive platform as well. There is supposed to be an old car somewhere but we weren't able to find it. Viz at both lakes was probably 25 to 30 feet I'd guess. All in all it was real good time and I'd recommend heading up there and diving if you get the chance. The one thing I can say that I liked better about Ore Be Gone and Lake Mine over the Crosby lakes is that the vehicle access is so much better. Ore Be Gone has a paved road right down to a picnic shelter at the beach area to gear up at. Lake Mine has a gravel road that goes down to a parking lot with a boat access.