This past Sunday we ran a charter to the Mack for 2-dives and everyone had a great time. I met my boat load of divers around 0800.  Our plan was to wait until 0830 to depart as I wanted to get a cooler full of hot water for the divers.  We waited but the harbor [...]

  Well the 2012 Windy City Diving dive season is officially underway! This past Sunday we ran two charters to the Mack and everyone had a great time. After getting skunked the previous weekend I was really hoping to get out on the Lake.  On Thursday I was coming back from Michigan and saw that the near [...]

Boy it has been hot!  On my last two charters I have gone through a case of water on each trip.  Wednesday we had a two-tank dive scheduled and then we were going to hang out for the fireworks.  I had planned to hit the Mack, but I had 5 wetsuit divers and for two of [...]

I had a group of divers from DD Dive and they wanted to going diving.  Ralph the store owner and I conversed about 6 times that day trying to interpret the weather.  In the end Ralph said he was very confident of his divers so lets go.  The plan was to dive the Buccaneer but [...]

Saturday the 9th of July was simply a great day on the Lake.  Days like that are why people buy boats.  I got down to the harbor around 0730.  It was sunny and the temp was 78F.  The barometer was reading a nice high 29.30, indicating a stable weather.  The group first group of Chicago [...]

Friday July 1st I met my divers at 0930 and we left the dock a little after 10AM.  The plan for these six divers was two dives on the Mack.  The group was a mixed bag, half experienced, one not so much and two first timers on the Lake.  The weather report called for <1Ft [...]

Best Weekend on the Lake, So Far!  That’s right.  Since our 2011 season opened on  April 16th, we have waited/weathered 71 days to finally achieve the best weather yet.  This past weekend we ran three charters and each one was simply a great adventure, great weather, great seas and more importantly great viz. Saturday morning [...]

Given the weather, we had an excellent weekend of diving!  Saturday started out hazy.   I met my boatload of divers at the dock and thought, “when is the weather ever going to get better.”  Fortunately we had a light (less than 6kts) northerly breeze so as we departed Burnham for the Mack we were [...]

After a great weekend on the Lake with warm temperatures and flat seas I was thinking summer was finally here.  Last Saturday, the 11th, I woke up to fog.  Now I know that with the right barometric pressure that Air temp 59F – Water Temp 51F = FOG.  My divers and divemaster Jason met me [...]

Somehow, Chicago has skipped over Spring and Summer is finally here.  Well it is finally June and we had 3 great charters this past weekend.  Saturday morning I met my boatload of divers at 0730 and we began the boarding process.  After getting everyone aboard and situated we stopped by the fuel dock ($5.41/gal) and [...]