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Griffon...Be careful you don't confuse the Point Lobos Foundation with State Parks (or, to be more specific, California Department of Parks and Recreation. The former is a bunch of volunteers from the Carmel area who try to do good works. The latter is a monstrous bureaucracy operating with a...

Do you know this, or are you just speculating? For me, this is really key. I'm a decrepit retired old guy, living off Social Security, so I always go mid-week without a reservation and pay my $10. If the fee goes to $20, that means $40 for me because my wife is almost always my dive buddy...

Be sure to contact the dive shops in your area. When I owned Aquarius in Monterey, I used to have people come into my shop frequently to try to get money for their dive gear. Occasionally, I got people who clearly were not divers trying to sell their stuff. I often wondered if this gear...

Unfortunately, I get the following when I click on this link: This posting has been deleted by its author. I would have driven to Sacramento for that one! Worthington quit making tanks and PST has been dead for years. Unless I'm wrong, I believe Faber (i.e., Blue Steel) is the only source of...

According to Greg at Whitehorse Charters, Lois Ann and Marissa have also cancelled for today. So I guess it's shore diving or nothing. I don't know a thing about shore diving around San Diego. I take it from a comment above the best shore diving is at La Jolla? We're going to try to find a...

I'm in San Diego on a quick trip and had reservations to go on the Humboldt tomorrow morning. We just got back to our hotel and I have email saying they are cancelling the trip tomorrow. We lugged all of our dive gear down here from Monterey and this is our one chance. We would really like to...

Went out to the end of Beto's Reef on Friday and never got better than 20' visibility, even down 120'. But it was patchy...there would be some clearer zones and some less clear zones. By "less clear" I mean less than 10' of visibility. Later we went down Granite Point Wall to the north end...

That advice he gave you go hike up to the top of the hill and look down is the most important of all! You will see that there is a path through that kelp, and your job once you start swimming out is to find it. I like to follow that path at least until I can line up Doggie with the leftmost...

Took a tour to Pt. Lobos on Monday and was pleasantly surprised. First dive we went out to Seamount and had about 35' of visibility. It was gorgeous! Then for the second dive we went over to Granite Point Wall and looped around it. On this one, we had pea soup of 10' to maybe 15' visibility...

Yes, a single tank. I just now analyzed my computer record and see max depth was 106' and I came up with almost exactly 500 psi. We went down just to the east of HITW, surfaced back inside the cove. Total dive time was 61 minutes. You can do it too, Mubin. I'm going to have to take you with...

Today we did a really nice loop of Lone Metridium --> Seamount --> Beto's Reef --> 3 Sisters --> Rock Garden --> Lone Metridium. Visibility was about 35' until we came up shallow and got near the cove, at which point it dropped to about 20'. The water temperature has dropped a bit recently...

I'm glad to hear you had a good time with it. It truly is a gorgeous site. One of my fondest memories is of a night dive I did there with an AOW class. It was one of those 100' visibility days and there were virtually no swells on the surface. At every turn, our visibility was limited only...

The two sites are very different and I would hate to have to pick a favorite! The south side is generally shallower, and in fact there is a huge area which is <40' so that it is good for open water classes when conditions are calm. You do need to swim a fairly long way out from the beach in...

Went to Point Lobos Tuesday (9/2) and had a great time. Visibility was about 35' below 70 fsw and maybe 20' in the shallows. Calm seas, no surge...what more could you want? We went around Rock Garden to the west and north almost to 3 sisters. My wife thought we were going to Breakwater so she...

I'll put myself down as a "maybe" rather than leave you wondering if you were shouting into the void with your post. I just had knee surgery last Thursday and the stitches don't come out until Wednesday, but I think I might be able to manage Lobos on Tuesday. Lobos is a very easy entry and...

Let's keep in touch as the dates get nearer. I'm not a hunter and the places I would probably show you are no-take zones, but I do know Monterey diving well. I'm free weekdays, which in my view is the best time to go. Bruce aquariusds@sbcglobal.net

I took a tour out at Lover's #3 Wednesday and had over 30' of visibility...maybe even 40'. We went on to Coral Street Beach for dive #2 and it wasn't quite as good. But that could be because we turned too early. It was just starting to get nice at about 45 fsw when my client told me he was...

I'm going to be in San Diego October 29 - November 2 for a reunion event (my U.S. Marine Corps Officers Basic School class), and as soon as that event ends I would like to go diving. I just checked the web page for the Ruby E, which is the only boat there I know, and what they are offering that...

You guys are missing the big picture. With any other dive computer you have no choice but to buy a proprietary cable from the computer manufacturer. These things are always $120+. An IRDA can be had for under $20 if you look. The bad news I see is that the newer Uwatec computers are moving...

We stayed there in June and ate at Liberty every night. I thought the food was great! We did order only the Indonesian dishes, which you acknowledged were the better choices, but I had absolutely no complaints. One night my wife suggested we might go out in town and try something different...