Diving the Oriskany

Pensacola has one of the newest diving destinations for scuba divers that love to go a little deeper.

The USS Oriskany was built in 1944 and was commissioned to run in 1957 as an aircraft attack carrier. This engaged in the Korean War and many ports of service until 1966 when she was devastated by fire and eventually sold for scrap metal in 1995. The Navy reacquired this vessel in 1997 and transferred to the ship to Pensacola, Florida in 2003. The ship was sunk off the coast of Pensacola in May 2006 to become an artificial reef.

The 911-foot vessel is laying upright at 130 feet and has another flight deck at 150-feet below the surface. There is already an myriad of marine life laying claim to this wreck and if you're into underwater photography, you'll find a huge number of subjects to shoot.

A diver's watch is an important of a piece of equipment as the rest of the gears and gauges. A separate watch is very useful in case your gauges fail and your equipment isn't telling you the correct amount of air you have left. A diving watch such as the Citizen-Promaster-1000-Meter-Professional-Diver-NH6931-06E-Watch will allow you to set your bezel to the amount of time you want to dive and you can make sure the time on your watch matches the time on your gauges.

The Citizen-Promaster-1000-Meter-Professional-Diver-NH6931-06E-Watch is also a champion among diving watches for handling depths. The 6MM thick crystal will withstand many atmospheres of pressure and this watch is water resistant to 100-meters or 328-feet.

See a reef as it is being built by nature and dive the Oriskany on your next trip to the big blue and make sure you have the best diving watch for the excursion like the Citizen-Promaster-1000-Meter-Professional-Diver-NH6931-06E-Watch.
 posted by Watches Giant