Lake Rawlings Dive

To Give my younger son more experience before our Advanced Open Water Course, we did a dive in Lake Rawlings (http://www.lakerawlings.com/). Great dive location. Very good Dive shop with camping and cabins available. It is a quarry lake and is very clear. It is reportedly the clearest lake on the Eastern Seaboard. Average visibility this past weekend was about 20-30 Ft. We dove an average of 30ft, temps around 73. At 36 ft the temps dropped to 58. We dove 7mm suits as alot of the sights were below 36 ft. There were many fish. 5-6lb Largemouth Bass, slab sized Bluegill and Small mouth bass abounded. They showed little fear and would come very close looking for handouts. The lake has a large quantity of freshwater clams. Divers have been using them to feed the fish, but now it is prohibited to keep them from killing them all. Great Dive, good experience.