I just got orders to Norfolk anybody freediving Virginia? What can I expect? Fish, conditions, temps, sharks? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks

Cold as hell, no spearfishing, real strong currents, hurricanes, huge sharks, snow this time of year, and usually no viz. :crazy:

No really, I have some family there, I have never been there to fish/dive but if there were some good reports then maybe I would visit them some time.

I am pretty sure they are right outside Norfolk too.

Damn you scared me for a sec! Im hoping it aint much different than NC, I mean it looks pretty awsome there. Any Cobia around there?

you can freedive the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel at high slack tide. It is loaded with sheepshead, cobia, tautog, and flounder. You usually get 5 ft vis. You have about 1.5 hours of diving before the current starts ripping and even less with a full moon. ENJOY! :)

They get big striped bass in VA.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/01/chesapeake-man-shatters-virginia-striped-bass-record

Check out the Mid-Atlantic Section on SB, most of those guys haven't made it over here. I asked the same question since I am moving to Newport News, and the guys there helped me out. There is a club in Virginia Beach, the Mid-Atlantic Freedivers I think. They shoot on some light tower and the bridge tunnel. We can always make a few trips down to the Spear-it for some monster hogs, its only 3 hours or so.

I just got orders to Norfolk anybody freediving Virginia? What can I expect? Fish, conditions, temps, sharks? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks

You got orders to Virginia? I thought you guys were going to Cali next. WTFO? USMC dicking you around a little bit it seems. That's crazy dude. I'm trying to get a re-enlistment encentive of Hawaii for my next duty station. GT??? Oh yes! I hope that happens.

Cold as hell, no spearfishing, real strong currents, hurricanes, huge sharks, snow this time of year, and usually no viz. :crazy:

Haha that aint nothing ol steelhed aint use to. I think he was scurd about the vis part though.

Damn dawg! Virginia? Better find someone with a boat I guess. Thats why I keep extending out here till they say no. The choices that keep coming up are in the midwest. I start to suffocate if I havent been in the water for a few weeks. Seriously I dont see how some people survive or have fun in life w/o freediving. A week and a half and I already feel like I need some zoloft.

Good luck!

Unfortunately, even w/ all that water around us the area will never be the freedive meca of the western world. Vis just plain sucks a lot!!

Farther south and deep offshoe North Carolina wrecks and ledges are great stuff. In Cape Hatteras , look up Cap Dave Sommers running the "Akyla" www.divehatteras.com. The wreck of the Proteus has fish filling the entire water column, so freedivers can hit alotta stuff even though its 132fsw to the sand. Its just packed w/ fish in the upper water column and is pretty much always blue , blue water as it is about 27 miles offshore of Cape Hatteras.. Off Wrightsville Beach Capt Tom Collins "Spearit" boat takes you to some of the fisheyest , lobster fiiled ledges on this earth. www.spearitcharters.com I dont think anyone has ever come back from a Spearit spearfishing adventure w/out a shiteating grin on thier face and lots of fish in the cooler .

Agood site w/details of the NC wrecks out the whazoo is the BFDC wreck dive club www.nc-wreckdiving.com . Tons of info and recent pix of the wrecks.

Thanks for that amazing piece of info! Well based on what I have seen there are huge fish on the east and south east coast. In all the vids and reports people are always pulling out 30lb fish or bigger. I guess the vis is a bummer though but it makes up for the size fish.

Thanks again