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Yeah, I generally try to minimize weaving by using a back range, and with a good one you only need a single good cross-range to drop on target. I guess I'll have to dig through my dive reports for that class and review the lineups and bearings we took. ISTR we had a couple that were easier to...

Ok, thanks. I'll give it a try one of these times. Have you done the surface swim out and dropped on the back lineup (bathroom corner and end of fence) since the latter got bent several years back? I haven't. Guy

How much 'a little further', Chuck? I'm generally not all that happy being out that far on the surface if there's any boat traffic, and the authorities aren't all that thrilled by the idea either. We were doing a nav. class out there and back, and bouyed both ends of the barge with DSMBs so we...

I've dived the baage with a surface swim all the way out. However, IIRR you pretty much have to use a compass bearing to the daymark, because from the water you can't see the buildings on/behind Del Monte beach. As a consequence, I tend to deliberately drop on a bearing that leaves me a bit...

You certainly had some great vis, Mike. I think I've only seen it that nice two or three times. Guy

For more details, to improve your mapping accuracy: GPS Mapping of Underwater Sites Guy

Excellent advice. And I recommend renting the widest variety of gear you can for the stuff you can't borrow, even though it means you'll wait longer to buy and have to rent from different shops. The OP says she's going to be doing this professionally, so she might as well buy gear once that...

Thanks. It looked better than that in the video, but I wasn't there!:D Guy

Nice video, Mike. Looks like the vis was a lot better than what was reported on the Monterey side. I've never dived that site, and it looks like you had a fair amount of surge - how deep were you? Guy

Cannery Point, presumably, or did you mean Granite Pt. Wall? Guy

The going rate in Monterey for a single fill is $6, although at least one shop charges $7.50 for HP (>3000 PSI) fills. Fill cards (typically for 10 or 20 fills) bring that down to $4.80 or $5 for LP/MP, or $6 for the one shop that normally charges $7.50 for HP. I'm in luck, as my local LDS has...

Average surface water temp at Lobos in late July is 54 degrees. it can vary about 3 degrees either way, and temps at depth will be mid to high 40s or low 50s. Guy

Well, I've been too lazy to go dig out my own pictures, but just found some on the web that are similar: Backpacking Trip: Bishop Pass, Dusy Basin, Le Conte Canyon Go down to the one labelled "Towards Le Conte Canyon. Citadel on the left.", and Hester lake is in the bowl just above the steep...

Ah, I see you were diving the wreck of the S.S. Biergarten!:eyebrow: Guy

So, did you make Tahoe (or Tenaya)? Guy

I think it was a question of leaving Lover's #1 beach open for people to sunbathe and play in the water, without having constant interactions with novice scuba divers. San Carlos Beach (in Monterey) is much longer, and divers tend to enter at the ends so the whole middle of the beach is...

No, so the OP will be fine. Guy

Interesting. For me, while I value swimming ability as a general qualification pre-scuba, pure swimming ability is less important to _learning_ scuba; it's general comfort in/under the water and breathing that I consider more important. For instance, anybody who's spent any portion of time...

Right hand, I'd like to introduce you to Left hand. Left hand, meet right hand. "So nice to meet you, we really must get together more often." Guy

Your son's and my experience sounds similar. I was lucky enough to be taken in the water at 18 months and start swimming/freediving at 4, and I didn't become nearsighted until age 10 (about when I got my first mask), when I went to about -5 diopters pretty quickly followed by a long slow...