2021 New Years Day

 

If you went looking for the Point Pleasant First Aid Dive Team on New Year’s Day you would have to have gone to Gull Island Park. Because the team was up holding their 24 year old tradition of diving on New Year’s Day

 Since the team was started 24 years ago they have never missed a New Year’s Day. Regardless of the weather or water conditions. The coldest dive was in 2018 with an air temperature of 08 degrees and a   wind chill of -4 degrees

  Since the team is on call 24/7/365 they have to be ready to go in the water in all kinds of conditions. In New Year’s Day past they have had air temperatures in the 50’s, 40’s 30’s and water temperatures of always around high 30’s to low 40’s. Visibility has been anywhere from 0-30 feet, this year was pretty good with visibility between 10-15+ feet.

  It’s not always Gull Island. In 2020 it was at the foot of Bay Ave at the boat ramp

In 2019 it was at Manasquan Inlet

2016 it was Shark River inlet

   Some years when the ocean is flat the team will dive off the beach. Sometimes a beach wreck or off the beach and into the let like in 2015 where the team dove off the 
beach and let the tide bring them down the Manasquan Inlet getting out by the parking lot

   After the dives it was always back to the building to clean up and have a lunch of soup and sandwiches, but not this year! This year the team had a feast, thanks to Chris and his wife, Jim Sr & Jr, Sue L, Julia and Flo the team had two kinds of soups, chili, sausage and peppers and Corn bread, ziti and a nice salad. There was something for everybody

So if you're a diver looking to dive or someone who wants to watch and be part of the first dive, mark it in your date book for next New Year's Day. Come see what we do both the first aid and the dive team. You never know you might want to join!