Aug 23 – Old Marine Land
Monday, August 24th, 2009
The surf was down, making for an uneventful entry and exit. Visibility was poor, but there was still a lot of activity on the reef; lots of fish and nudibranchs, a few sun stars and several sea hares. After the sun burned through the marine layer, the colors came to life despite the poor vis.
Read more »Aug 20 – Crescent
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Evening dive. Surge and 1 – 3 ft surf. Good visibility but the temperature dropped to 64 degrees at the end of the reef. Close to shore temperature was 67 degrees.
Read more »Aug 15 – Catalina
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Boat dives at Lulu reef and Little Geiger. The visibility at Lulu reef in the morning was a bit better and there was no current. Once we moved to Little Geiger the current picked up and the dive boat had only the bow anchor making it sway all over the place. Visibility dropped dramatically for [...]
Read more »Aug 14 – Crescent night dive
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
40 minute dive with the max depth of 35ft. The sky was covered in thick clouds thus no moon light was shining. We dropped in about 10ft of water and we encountered a 3ft horn shark and a few feet deeper another smaller one. Lobsters were crawling all over the reef, we probably saw 15-20 [...]
Read more »Aug 13 Wood’s twilight dive
Friday, August 14th, 2009
20ft viz at dusk and 10ft+ after dark. Went out to about 40ft but didn’t get out far enough to Miller’s reef. Tide was low but surf was calm as lake. Saw a big morey eel, octopus, and lots of sheephead. Fun to dive in and around the reef in calm water.
Read more »Aug 8 Deadman’s
Sunday, August 9th, 2009
1-2ft entry and 2-4ft on exit. Great viz at the thermocline around 35fsw and lots of life. saw a large moray eel hiding and one smaller one actively hunting and moving around the reef. A bit of surge on top of the reef but feel almost 0 surge below 50fsw.
Read more »Aug 6 Deadman’s twilight dive
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Dropped to around 45fsw, viz was good 13ft+. Got to the front side of the reef and experienced very little surge (0-1ft) and still seeing good viz. Moved eastward a little bit and crossed over toward the backside. Viz and temp started to drop and got murkier. Reef was full of life. Saw a school [...]
Read more »Aug 5 Treasure Island night dive
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Surf at the main beach was calm with slow moving 1-3ft waves. Surf inside the little protective cove was dead calm with 0-1ft surf. Temp inside the underground parking was hot but very breezy once we got to the beach. We dropped around 7:50pm and viz was a solid 15ft. But, as soon as it [...]
Read more »Aug 4 Wood’s night dive
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Dove Wood’s tonight. Got in around 7:30pm. Tide was high but calm surf but good size swells. High tide make low surf made getting in and out easy. Passed the pinnacle and dropped to about 20ft and head out to “miller’s reef” Passed a couple of smaller reefs and started to turn “east” The reef [...]
Read more »Aug 3 OML night dive
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Met up with my buddy at PV and surf was calm everywhere we looked. A bit of off shore wind but that didn’t help much with the viz. Surf temp was around 69F and we could see each other very clearly 10ft apart. Underwater viz wasn’t bad but we could only see about 10-15ft murky. [...]
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