Best place to dive in the US - article

[Eric Sedletzky]

You bunch of scuba hipsters .

Hey I pioneered miscreants, or at least am quite advanced at it, can I join?

You can join long as you have a tie dyed wetsuit and say "Dewd" and "Bru" a lot. The man bun is optional

 

[Nemrod]

You can join long as you have a tie dyed wetsuit and say "Dewd" and "Bru" a lot. The man bun is optional

Bru, I got more hair than a woolly booger!

 

[NothingClever]

It’s fixin’ to get real in here real fast.

 

[NothingClever]

Man buns…a hair style forever in search of common acceptance yet never truly finding it.

 

[NothingClever]

On my bucket list of dive trips is scootering through California’s kelp forests.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Man buns…a hair style forever in search of common acceptance yet never truly finding it.

Man bun removal tool

 

[Lookitthat]

CI NP is a different experience, at least from the Avalon area and day boats there. There's not much shore diving in the park, mostly all dive boat or private boat. Agree with the previous poster - it can indeed feel wilder. It's a much bigger area, with a broad range of sites (deep water pinnacles vs sheltered coves). To be fair, Catalina has these as well. Some of the boat operators in the Channel Islands specialize in more advanced dives (Triton, Peace, Giant Stride, Channel Islands Dive Adventures).

Here's my husband earlier today on the front side of Anacapa at about 40' (Shout out to our friend Melaine for the photo!). He estimated the sheepshead was about 30# and the GSB maybe 300-400# (!!). Water 70° (finally), viz about 30'. Only 6-7 boats along the entire front side of Anacapa on a perfect Labor Day Sunday.

 

[TMHeimer]

I snorkeled with my brother at age 18 in 1972 at Casino Point. I hear it's built up nicely now for scuba. I recall back then it was a pretty easy entry. Found two Norris Top Shells and a couple of Abalones which remain in my collection to this day.

 

[ofg-1]

Weird, but I was under the impression that Hawaii was in the United States.

 

[bradlw]

setting up my Florida rig for a night dive

what's a Florida rig?