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We had 20'-30' of visibility at McAbee today. It was really quite nice--totally calm seas, thin kelp cover. We had a very friendly juvenile seal accompany us for most of the dive, and I don't think he left any teeth marks on my fins. The dive was 55 minutes total, max depth of 64 fsw...and...

This is a reasonable description at other than full low tide. But at full low tide, when the ramp hasn't been power washed in a few months, that ramp really IS too slippery and too steep. Even exercising all the care I could, I still went down on that ramp a few years ago and broke my right...

You can try https://www.facebook.com/groups/82397601942/. Bear in mind, though, that this is one of about 60 little clips I took which I still have hopes of putting together into a short video. In other words, this was just a little piece of raw, unedited footage.

Kenn, I put a 2-1/2 minute video clip (from our trip last week to San Clemente/Catalina) up on the Monterey Bay Sea Otters page, and it must have taken 30 minutes to upload it. Clearly, that's not the way to go. Don't you usually upload to Vimeo and then put a link here? Or are you still...

Well, I finally got a chance to go diving at Pt. Lobos with my best dive buddy today for the first time in several years, and it was great. We went out to Beto's Reef and had about 40' of visibility in the vicinity of Seamount. Down deeper at Beto's it was a little less. When we came back in...

The only time I ever have to crawl out is when it's too calm. I normally use the waves to lift me up and set me on the ledge, but if there are no waves and it's low tide...ugh. Somebody else mentioned using the waves for an assist. Realize that when a wave moves in at the slope, the force it...

I always go straight out from the beach as far as I can, but hugging the right side of the beach as I go out. There are rocks that come up and break the surface about 100 yds. out on the west side, so I stick to the east. When you go down, take a heading of 045 and just go straight out. You...

What's your SAC rate? Very shortly here I'm going to be free to do a lot of diving, but I don't like having to cut my dives short when people run out of air on me. I normally run .45-.5 cf/m and use HP100's.

I found it: "Boasting the largest spectator attendance of any race held at Mazda Raceway, the Red Bull United States Grand Prix, featuring the MotoGP World Championship, returns to Monterey for its eighth consecutive year. MotoGP is the world’s premier motorcycling championship..." This...

On Monday, I had about 20'-30' visibility at HITW & LM, but out at Seamount it was more like 40'-50'. That's the best I've seen in a very long time. Later, we went over and looped around Granite Point Wall and the visibility was only about 20'. Still, that's way better than the 5'-10' we had...

I heard a really nasty rumor that this weekend there is some kind of motorcross race at Laguna Seca. When that happened last year, I remember that the roads out of Monterey were so jammed that after spending a couple of hours just sitting in the parking lot on 101 we finally went back to the...

I had 20'-30' at Lover's 3 today. It was the best I've seen in about 3 weeks now. On the 2nd dive we went way west of the point, heading out from the steps at 315. I bumped into some large rock formation I've never seen there, just before we turned and started back. This formation was at...

I suffered through precisely the same conundrum with my wife. She didn't want to invest in a dry suit until she knew she would enjoy Pacific diving, and she knew she wouldn't enjoy it if she were cold. I pushed and pushed on this for about 6 months before I convinced her to just close her eyes...

When I was at N. Monastery the last time I saw a chain of these things about 5' long. Each individual salp is about 5" long, so the whole thing was huge. Have you identified the species yet?

No, I was doing an AOW class and cameras are verboten when teaching. Today looks even better than yesterday. The seas are calmer than yesterday (now down to 4.2' swells at the Monterey buoy) and the upwelling continues. MBARI - M1 Contour CTD string Metsys plot - last 30 days tells the whole...

Saturday afternoon I drove away from a metered parking space on Reeside with my fins leaning against my car. Dumb! If anybody retrieved them, I would very much appreciate getting them back. It’s a pair of black Scubapro Twinjets with spring straps. The spring straps are distinctive in that...

N. Monastery had 80' to 100' of visibility on Sunday. It was absolutely awesome. I could see the other side of Carmel Canyon as I went along the wall to the north side of the wash rock.

My congratulations to Randy for getting his life back! I'm envious.

No, this is abnormal. I would put "normal" Breakwater visibility as 15'-20' and normal Carmel visibility as about 40'. The problem is that we have had too much sunshine recently. There has been slow, steady upwelling for the past couple of weeks, and that has brought up lots of nitrates and...

I had a DM take a tour out today to Breakwater, and they bailed after one dive. The DM said he couldn't see his own knees, much less his fins. He said a max of 3' of vis. I'm not too picky, but I do consider that poor vis! Bruce