(Cont’d) After their first dive the DM reported that he thought the ship seemed deeper than he had remembered. At this point I knew I had to do a survey dive to confirm my suspicions. I did not bring my SCUBA gear, so I set it up for Sunday.
Sunday morning I donned my gear and hit the water, the visibility was maybe 40’ on the surface.
I marked my primary sub-surface buoy at 45 fsw, the flags were wrapped around the buoy line and I could not see the wreck, I cleared the flags and headed down.
My first stop was the flight deck amidships, approximatly fifty feet inboard of the island, viz was around 20’.
I had dove this spot many times and had marked it at 136 fsw, it now marked at 147 fsw.
I took several marks at various locations to try to get a feel as to whether she had listed or not.