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I've seen Calico Bass at Lobos, IIRR once at Monastery, and once (that I remember) along the Big Pipe at BW. To me they look more streamlined than rockfish, as well as having a different pattern of light-colored spots either side of the dorsal fin. They were definitely not Olive or Yellowtail...

It's just certain people. Sure, if you usually dive solo you may develop a tendency to ignore anyone else on the rare occasions you buddy with someone. But most of the regular solo divers I know make good buddies, because they assume full responsibility for their own safety all the time, and...

When I've seen live molas swimming around at BW, they've been out at the Metridium fields or the Barge. More often than not they've already lost a fin/had a chunk taken out of them by sea lions. Guy

Kenn should shoot the video. Take that, Tarantino (only a real auteur would think of including nettles!) Guy

I got the same ones, and although they'd undoubtedly sit slightly better if they had an on-center attachment point, I haven't found it to be a significant problem. I'm able to deploy and stow them easily, and they don't get in the way. I think it's more a question of esthetics than...

I think you asked about the Impact XL re the Dorcy: Unless Princeton has upgraded the XL with a more powerful LED in the last three years, there's no comparison between the two. The XL was an okay night light, although noticeably less bright than the Mini Q40 eLed + that I also used, and the...

Hey, Mike, congratulations on the pass! Guy

Right. It's recreation, not work. Guy

I'm not sure that it's the Jets' per se that are the problem, more the SIZE of the blades on the XL Jets. Unless you've got really powerful leg muscles, just pushing the XL jets is noticeably hard work. I don't find that to be the case with the smaller blades of my L Jets although it's still...

Agreed with the last, which is why I stressed local (i.e. Mocal) divers, which the OP and I are. I find 5 feet above the bottom to be more than enough over our sandy bottoms, and 3 feet is often enough if I'm not trying to get somewhere. In a high-silt environment the equation's very...

I have similar issues to you; I often see videos of DIR-trained local divers using frog kicks to the exclusion of all others, when silting isn't an issue. The use of regular type kicks wasn't really discussed in Fundies class (it apparently being assumed that you already know them), and the...

Oh, I don't know . . . "It wasn't me, it was that weird doctor lady! She descended on her back!":D Guy "My girlfriend gave me those split fins . . . I HAD to wear them!" Alcala

While I don't think the make of light had anything to do with this, I just wanted to pass this along. For Fundies, Carol, Fofo and I had each bought a pair of Dorcys for backups. Carol apparently tried hers with both alkalines and lithiums. Her Salvo 21W was back at Light Monkey for repair...

The idiots get more accomplished all the time. But at least the signs have helped a few who don't work so hard at it!:D Requiring permits and limiting their number is being done more for aesthetics than safety, although having 100 people jammed at the bottom of the cables waiting to go up, 30...

Yes. The no-metridium reef to the northeast of the others is very low, under a foot if memory serves, and the only distinctive thing about _it_ is that it isn't sand:D. Guy

Ben, when I swim the Grand Circuit I head for the two metridium reefs that are just over 1/2 way between the barge and the metridium fields proper. One's just inside the 50' counter (which wraps around it), the other is east and slightly north of that, about midway between the 50' and 60'...

I've attached the file with the signs that were posted for the general public two years ago owing to the efforts of Harry Wong. Unfortunately, as can be seen from this video, YouTube - New Warning Signs At Monastery Beach the signs, while colorful, are quite small. I was hoping that they'd...

Aren't they required to have an SUV made by Rolls-Royce (or at least a Range Rover) to go along with the Grey Poupon, wine, cheese, tablecoth etc.? Guy (happily smearing Grey Poupon on deli meats and cheeses for decades, even though I drive a Subaru:D)

That assumes you can find HiTW.:D We didn't on that dive (and I've never seen it, but that was the first time I was looking for it or LM - I'm usually over at Granite Point Wall, or else drop deeper than HiTW). I was navigating by the contour lines on the map, which is why I didn't spot LM...

Be sure to read this: http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/ba_diving/newmontereydiver.html Guy