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I dunno about "safe," but I've run 55% through my Bauer. It does make a higher pitch sound when you turn on the gas, but other than that, I haven't noticed much difference, including temperatures.

Dived Ballbuster yesterday. Vis was 50ish, bright and blue. Plenty of nettles from 15-25 ft. There were some 8-10 footers rolling in, so we bagged a second dive. Caught 11 crab in the traps, and man, it was rockin' and rollin' when we picked up the traps. Wind picked up to 20+kts.

Don't kid yourself. If you usually get cold, you're gonna freeze in a 7mm wetsuit in Monterey, especially in December, when land temperatures are cold enough that you'll find it difficult to warm up on the surface intervals. And if you're boat diving, forget it, you'll need a drysuit. The...

Most of us dive weekends, but there area a few who dive during the week. Are you ok with cold water diving? 7mm wetsuit with hooded vest or a drysuit?

30 ft of vis yesterday at the Gray Zone, no nettles and a TON of bigger rockfish, along with some senoritas and young-of-year rockfish. A tad green, but vis was better than I've seen it in weeks.

That looks vaguely familiar. ;) I'm glad that we did both dives there.

We had 30-40 ft of vis at Lobos Rocks today. It got a little cloudy on the second dive and vis dropped a bit. Seas were a little rough coming back, even though the forecast was for fairly flat seas.

So true! The telltale marks on those guys is the "mascara" around the eyes.

Winter brings storms and huge waves/swells that make it unpassable around the rocks via shore diving. I have a small inflatable boat that I use for Point Lobos. I unroll it from the back of my truck, put on the 6hp motor, and go diving. Kayaks work, too. It is definitely worth it to get over...

Juvenile Blue Rockfish

Haskel makes AGD boosters. I suspect the "G" looks like a "C" on the label.

Define "rough entry." I can dive Monastery in anything up to about 6-8 footers, but I have experience there and we used to teach OW classes there. If it's really rough, and you just need to get your fix, go to the north side, enter near the daycare center and swim under the kelp. Big swells...

It looks like I'll probably take the boat out on Sunday.

Big Sur is a BIG area. How far south are they going? Diablo Pinnacles has a lot of dive sites. If you go to Lobos Rocks, the best diving is where, if you were shore diving, it would be first place you touched the first rock. I've done dozens of dives at Lobos Rocks, and have explored around...

Yup, and they drive down there from K-dock. It's about half an hour longer ride than Carmel, depending on how far south they go and sea conditions. An hour if they go really far south.

There are TONS of VERY good diving spots in Big Sur. Which boat are your diving from?

With me, it's ALWAYS a boat dive. A wall dive near East Pinnacles that showed up on the topo map. As yet unnamed.

Yesterday in Carmel we had a green layer down to about 25 ft, then the vis opened up to 40 ft or so. Temp was still cold, avg of 46, and it was a tad surgy.

Low temp of 42.6 degrees

I dived Local's Ledge today from my boat. Vis was easily 70 ft. I could see from one pinnacle to the other, and down to the sand channel about 100 ft away. Simply gorgeous.