06/12/2026
Posted from a diver off Lake Borman Quarry page, if you plan to attend the treasure hunt tomorrow:
X and I dove last night at Lake Norman Quarry . Since the Treasure hunt will be there this Saturday 6-13-2026 I'll do a QUARRY dive report. We went in the front deep entry. Dropped off to the area between the deep wall and the Cruiser. The viz is almost non existent. It is very cloudy from the surface down to the bottom at 96 feet. On the bottom near the cruiser you can barely see your dive buddy. We went across the bottom toward the back side passing the "pulley on the rock". I about head butted the rock. Then we went to find the "bath tub". My high powered dive light could barely see the bottom a foot away. We went to the big school bus. The viz there maybe a max of 5 feet. We swam to the "statue garden". Only a few feet of viz there. We then went to the "Big sailboat". The viz there was only about 5 feet. Then we swam around the quarry wall and up to the training area. I was 3 feet off the wall and barley could see it. The training area wasn't any better. We were looking for a lost weight pouch under the floating training platform and could only see the bottom from about 1 foot distance. Bottom line is the viz sucks. Bare in mind that it was 8:30 or 9:00 pm and there was no ambient light, but with our lights we can usually see a good distance. The water temp is better news. Were were seeing temps on the bottom of 62-63 degrees. Temps at about 30 to 40 feet were between 64 to 66 degrees. We were both in drysuits with medium undergraments and were totally comfortable on a 105 min dive. Come on out for the treasure hunt, but be prepared for not-so-good Viz. See yall Saturday.
