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Best place to dive in the US - article
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Still Kicking
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With ocean warming, California will eventually have more coral than Florida
Whoever says that Catalina is the best diving in the US has never dove Arena Rock in N. CA or Duncan Rock in WA. But then....I've never dove Catalina so I could be totally off base. Have had plenty of dives in the Channel Islands and they are beautiful.....but for those trips the focus was all 100% on Lobster.
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Eric Sedletzky
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I agree.
I just pinned an article that somebody wrote to start a conversation. I didn't say I agreed with the article.
Arena Rock is in a class of it's own. Very few people will ever get to see that.
Still Kicking
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It wouldn't be very helpful to readers to tell them about an incredible dive and then say there's no realistic way to get there.
Even mindblowing places like Cortes Bank and Begg Rock, which used to be part of the regular charter rotation, are now pretty much unattainable.
Also, it says PADI pros voted for the rankings ...how many have heard of Arena Rock let alone dived it?
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Eric Sedletzky
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If someone really wanted to dive it they could find a way. It's always been a spot with great challenges to get to. If someone did their homework first enough to find out about it, then read accounts of what it was like, then figured out a way to get a boat and sling it in at the Point Arena Cove Pier, then head out there offshore when the conditions allow and make it happen, then I guess it would happen. This is exactly what I had to do and every other person I know that has ever dived it. There are no charter boats going there, in fact there are no charter boats anywhere around here, Monterey is the closest ones. Even if there were charter boats it's not a spot where you take OW divers or even AOW divers, it's a double diamond site and experience in this type of diving is the only preparation that will work. How many people are dedicated enough to do this? Like you said, how many PADI pros even heard of it much less dived it? PADI pro doesn't mean squat in this regard.
You’ve been diving in Palm Beach County FL?
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Eric Sedletzky
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Never been to Florida so I have no way of knowing what it's like. And before you haze me about CA vs FL diving, I didn't write the article, I just linked it thinking it would be fun reading.
So you tell me.
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