Sunshine Skyway Bridge Pilings Part One Duane and Selena 08/02/08 dive

[Spikedfilms]

Last time i was at the skyway in my boat fishing a shark swam up next to us as long as the boat.

[Aomata1]

oh shit be careful that part of florida are native to hammerhead shark

[fixmyhvac]

View the bridge on google or mapquest you can see the rocks thru the water all over its cool! See layout

[navydiver190]

location? I have fished the bridge in the bay and that tide rips through there. Where are these pilings?

[gigg566]

navydiver190,

These werent the pilings that held up the bridge. I get it now that you mention, how it could be misleading. This was a pile of the old bridge pilings that were taken and dumped by barge on the bottom about a 40 min. ride out on a dive charter boat. I am sure it is illegal to dive 1000 feet within any bridge pilings, (especially nowadays) so I would never be caught near them, otherwise, I would hope someone would suspect something and call the law.

[gigg566]

I know I would! I hope this clears it up. This was in about 60 feet of water.

[navydiver190]

well that makes sense. looks like a nice dive. I will have to do it. my brother lives in Apollo Beach. I will give it a try. what wrecks do you recommend in that area?

[gigg566]

Two wrecks that are right by each other are the Sharidan and the Blackthorn. They are kind of out there a ways, I havent got to dive these yet but I hear the Sheridan is awsome. Check the vis. before going out, I like diving with the outfit bluewaterexplorers in Cortez. Capt Bob runs an w=awsome dive boat. That's the boat we took for the dive you watched about the downed pilings. Let me know when you go, I almost have my boat back together, we might be able to go togther one day.

[BradBaldwintheDrumm]

I think I saw some mangrove snapper in there after the sheepshead...cool

[gigg566]

Ya, this was about a 30 min run out the bridge that goes to Ana Maria, We dove with an outfit called Blue Water Explorers which is in a buliding painted red with a big white "Scuba Shack" on it. Thanks for the comment and glad you enjoyed it. I hope to post many more as soon as I get my boat in order.

[99voltsdotcom]

is this by bradenton beach/anna maria? how far out were you? cool vid!

[gigg566]

Most were snapper, grouper, and hogfish, The big school were baitfish, not sure but I think they were some kind of shad. The bridge pilings were visible, but like you said they were covered in a lot of growth. I found a cable and rubbed some off in one of the videos. I think they were more visble in Part two. Thanks for watching, please subscribe because I have my boat done now and am going to make alot more vidoes this summer.

Capt Duane

[d3ckhand]

Nice video!

I wish I knew what half of those fish were, including that big school near this end of this section.

Did you ever encounter the actual bridge pilings? I assume there's a ton of seaweed growth on them by now.