Orbit Marine is the dive shop around here, and has been since 1973. Old building smell actually overwhelms the usual dive shop smell, and the neighborhood, if it's ever seen better days, sure ain't seeing them now. I had a nice talk with the owner yesterday. Ancient Mariner type. B/W photo of him, younger, wearing a two-hose rig, at Guantanamo Bay in 1967, so must be ex-Navy. Has the usual dive-through-the-ages museum in his shop, and one gets the impression that he's personally used all that equipment. Visibility isn't that great in the Sound, but gets better as one heads east toward the open ocean. Many wrecks around here, some of which the Ancient Mariner has salvaged---bits of crockery, and boat parts, and some rifle clips (Krag or 30-06, probably the second) from a military vessel, all corroded and barnacled from many years in the water. There's something about an artifact that was lost to Mr. D. Jones, but that, somehow is back in sunlight again. Even if it was something absolutely uninteresting in its former life, there's something about it now.
Diving season Starts in June. I am on the Ancient Mariner's email list, and look forward to going.
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