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Don't the sharks and seals hang out shallow though? I'm usually in 60-80 at Lobos and was thinking of sitting closer in the cove next time to try to see them.

Got 10-15' the whole weekend, but it was a bit surgey, particularly on Sunday. Did a sand dive out Sand Carlos North. Some great black-eyed hermit crabs with barnacles on their shells and all, so not too bad, but I had a leaking octo, so that wasn't a wildly fun dive for me because I was...

Not to mention the military trek over the hill. Yeesh. Nothing like sludging through knee deep pebbles after an invigorating dive.

Cool!

Great froggie; nice pattern on him.

Beautiful; this has a lot of depth.

Nice shot; these guys are hard to get in focus.

I write "Your Ad Here" on the bottoms of my fins in yellow marker. People seem to recognize me. I have a buddy that dives the pink gear setup, so I can always find her. It is a problem though. When I did my nitrox class, we went off a boat and the vis was HORRIBLE. I had a DM and a...

You can feel like you're suffocating in too warm water with a too thick suit though. I did 82-84 in the PI with a 3/2 full and I was quite warm, even when not working hard.

Niiiice. Love the clowns particularly. Very moody pic.

Congrats! Especially on a not so perfect day. Saw a lot of shrimp this weekend, but mainly I noticed there were mundo crabs out this weekend! Of all types. I'm used to the sheep and moss crabs all over the place, but everywhere I looked there were crabs. Were you at Breakwater? Unless...

I wonder if that scuba instructor is the friend of a friend I heard about today. Freediving in Tomales Bay and pretty much dived headfirst straight into the shark, who was apparently just as surprised as the guy was. Has scars on his chest, but nothing missing and came out alive. Sound like...

Great macro!

http://www.scuba.net/scuba.net/old/htdocs/reply.html Don't judge Bruce until you've heard his side of the story...

Oh wow!!! I'm really impressed. Aren't Hawaiian monk seals REALLY endangered? Like only a few hundred left?

I love that article and think it's rather encouraging. Getting the firsthand, almost flippant account from a guy less than a week after the attack and none of the terrifying "fight for my life" stories you tend to hear when sharks grab surfers but instead you get the "patooie" story is pretty...

"but many years ago there was a documented attack by a GW just out from Point Lobos..." Though the diver wasn't severely injured. I'm trying to think of other attacks in Monterey/Carmel. I think the last documented death in the bay was a swimmer off Lovers in the 1950s, am I wrong? A...

In one of the diving Monterey books, it says the leopard sharks are regularly harassed by harbor seals that nip at their tails... ah, the fall of the fearsome shark... bullied by something that looks like a fat earless cocker spaniel.

First experience... Hmm... Monterey, too tight hood. Got seasick while on the surface and instructor and buddy had to take turns towing me in. Got back on the horse, did my skills, and the next day got hugely excited over a big decorator crab that my instructor handed to me (now I see...

Only thing I've seen in about 100 dives in Monterey is a dead angel shark being eaten by starfish. I was diving the day Chuck saw one of the thresher sharks. It wasn't going to give me love though. Sniff. I really want to see a leopard shark, and I see them fairly consistently at a site I...