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We went to Coral Street on Wednesday and had excellent conditions. Visibility was about 30', and I think it would have become better if we had gone further and gone deeper. As it was, we only got down to 60fsw, just before the really nice stuff kicks in. Wesley is still waiting for her...

Well, let me put in a plug for Pirate's Point. They don't advertise in dive magazines because over 90% of their business is repeat business. As Doctorfish implied, they do 2 dives a day instead of 3, as is the case at LCBR. However, there is no time limit on those dives. IMHO, that's a very...

I just saw a posting on ba_diving from Regina Roberts who had exactly the same experience yesterday I did. She was on the Beach Hopper and reported dazzling visibility at depth. I was on a friend's boat in Carmel Bay, and after we got tired of taking pictures of the Orcas feeding there(!) we...

The problem is that most of the people who go to a dive shop and ask for a divemaster to take them really do not know how to dive. I know, because I just got out of the dive business in Monterey after doing it for 7 years. A big part of our business was sending people out on tours with a...

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about this: Chrysaora fuscescens (commonly known as the Pacific sea nettle or West Coast sea nettle) is a common free-floating scyphozoa that lives in the East Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico. Your picture is of Chrysaora fuscescens, and us good ole...

Went out at S. Monastery today and it was a great dive. Very calm conditions, easy entry and easy exit. (Any time I can walk out at Monastery, I call it "easy"!) We went all the way to Mono Lobo and visibility was 15-20' at depth. Wesley and I both used HP80's, and we got 93' x 63 min. out...

That is the nature of R/C, and why I quit doing it. My last one involved not just a lot of money, but about 9 months of working on it every evening for several hours. I tried to get one too many flights out of the battery pack one day, and ended up carrying the pieces home in a bucket. I...

Our rules are almost the same, except we are allowed to go in the water with a hole no larger than 1/2" in the top and bottom in order to allow the pumpkin to fill with water before you go down. Even full of water, mine must have been at least 3# positive last year. After I got the top off, I...

This October 26 the Monterey Bay Sea Otters will again host their Underwater Pumpkin Carving contest. While this may sound like so much silliness, I tried it for the first time last year and discovered that it was quite challenging...and a lot of fun. Thus I'm actively preparing to make a...

Andrew, you're right! It does look like there's an opening tomorrow. I wasn't planning on going until Saturday, but I wouldn't mind following you around at Lobos if you're interested. I broke down my doubles into a pair of single 100's, but there is no recreational profile I can't do on a 100...

Yes, the whales...and dolphins and sea lions and seals...were awesome Sunday. I went down to Yankee Point on a friend's boat and then on the way back north at the end of the day we stumbled onto them. There were more humpbacks than I could count just off Monastery, outside of Whaler's Cove...

The reason for the time limits is really quite simple. Most divers get out of the water after 30-40 minutes and then start getting cranky while they wait for the people who actually know how to breathe to come up. Invariably, some of them start whining about getting seasick while waiting. In...

With respect to the concern about the water being too cold in January: I have been on Little Cayman in January every year since 1998, and for most of those years was been diving off LC for the whole winter. I have logged every dive, and the coldest water temperature I have ever recorded is...

Kenn, I'm totally baffled by this one. I was at Lobos on Friday and had way better visibility than you did today. Everything in your video looked green, and the visibility didn't look like it was better than 10' or so. I had relatively clear, blue water on Friday. The cove was ick, as...

I have a suit with TurboTec boots, and I absolutely love them. I have had two DUI suits in the past with rock boots and I think the TurboTec is much preferable. It is more comfortable, faster to put on and take off, and I have two less things to worry about losing. Also, I can wear size XXL...

I have noticed that the displayed "average depth" for a dive on my Galileo is always different from the average depth which is displayed by Smart Trak. Without doing a rigorous analysis, I would say that the average depth reported by the Galileo is about 3' deeper than that on Smart Trak. Can...

Yes, Dave, I do so wish you had come with us. I am glad to hear you didn't try Monastery, because it sure looked ugly to me when we drove past it. But Lobos wasn't bad at all. I didn't even notice surge on the bottom. The swells topside weren't bad, but the big seas we had the past few days...

Point Lobos was a very pleasant surprise today (Friday). When we got to the gate, the lady told us there had already been bunch of divers who checked in, went down to look at the water, then came back up to get a refund and leave. The buoy was still reporting 11' swells and I could see on the...

We are just now coming off a period where the seas were too big to do any diving. At this moment, the Monterey buoy is still reporting wave height of 11.5', which is too big to go much of anywhere except Breakwater. But it is supposed to calm down overnight, and I have some home for tomorrow...

I would agree with all of the comments I have seen so far. November still has a lot of risks, but it can be nice weather. (In contrast, October is almost always thoroughly miserable!) From my experience, December is better than November and January even better than December. I have seen...