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  1. Gombessa

    Dive video: Incredible weekend at Point Lobos

    It looks like Sunday was really the start of the rainy season around here. There's no doubt we need it, but we were all worried what it would do to the visibility. Turns out....nothing! Amazing visibility, just stunning actually. It felt almost tropical at moments (54 degree water didn't hurt...
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    Video - Lobos from above and below

    Hey everyone, It's been a while (a couple of months maybe?) but Team Bunny made it out for another dive. It felt like summer in October at Lobos, a sweltering 82 during gear-up. The viz wasn't stellar but the ocean was calm, making for some nice exploration west of Sea Mount and around the...
  3. Gombessa

    A dark dive at Bluefish Cove

    Sunday was flat and calm, but the water was a bit snotty. Mixed with heavy kelp coverage, you know what that means: mock cave dive! Well, not quite, but it was quite dark. The benefit of that was that huge schools of juvenile fish were out; once we made landfall, it seemed we were swarmed by...
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    Bluefish Cove at Point Lobos (video)

    We had a great dive at Point Lobos on Sunday. Surface conditions were a bit more jostlely by the time we hit the water, but the surge was slow and regular, and the visibility was fantastic. August led us from Sea Mount to the pinnacles and walls around Bluefish. On our way out, we ran into Team...
  5. Gombessa

    Video - Bluefish Cove

    Turns out I wasn't the only one with a free weekday; I met up with Ben and we made Thursday a dive day. Swells were flat, and the water was smooth. Ben had the bright idea to scoot out to Bluefish, which I've never been to before. We rounded the wash rocks and descended on some incredible...
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    Video - Jan 19 Point Lobos dive to Q-Tip

    Yesterday was the tail end of a week-long flat swell stretch in Monterey, so our hopes were high for great conditions, especially with big waves predicted to roll in for Mavericks Sunday (today). A series of pre-dive shenanigans ended up with my scooter in one hand, and the entire prop...
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    Mavs is on this Sunday (1/20)

    I can't recall off the top of my head how conditions have been on Mavericks weekends, but it does look like we're due for a sharp uptick in swells starting Saturday afternoon. Probably good to set expectations.
  8. Gombessa

    GoPro Cineform editing - how does it work?

    I'm new to GoPro and Cineform studio and was hoping someone here knows a bit about the nuts and bolts of how it works with video files from the camera. I've been working with ProTune for raw WB and best color correction potential. 1. I can load files straight from the camera into iMovie, but it...
  9. Gombessa

    Video - Jan 5 dive at Point Lobos

    It's been a few weeks since my last dive, and probably a few months' since August's, so we wanted to make this one count. I think it did! No excessively friendly seals or aggressive sea lions, but a lot of area covered (like, hundreds and hundreds of feet), and the most reversed visibility...
  10. Gombessa

    Video: Back to the Two Towers (McAbee)

    Whether it was time to expand beyond our regular Point Lobos boundaries, or the fact that we missed out on grabbing reservations, we pulled up at McAbee beach on Saturday. Conditions were mostly calm, and surprisingly, quite sunny. Our plan was to head out to Hopkins out in front of the...
  11. Gombessa

    Neutral buoyancy GoPro?

    I saw that GoPro has a silly little attachment that is essentially a block of foam glued to the back of a spare housing door, to make the thing positively buoyant and float in the water. I assume the soft foam compresses to nothing at depth. so it'd be less than useful for scuba. But this got...
  12. Gombessa

    Point Lobos Sunday 9/9

    One of the most dramatic inside-cove/outside-cove contrasts I've ever seen. Visibility was probably 10-15ft all the way out past Middle Reef, and from the surface the cove was a deep, rich muddy-green. It started to clear up at about 70ft depth, and by the time we got to Sea Mount, there was a...
  13. Gombessa

    Stay away from McAbee if you're worried about harassment by harbor seals!

    They literally wouldn't leave us alone. We had a whole dive plan set up, but the seals simply wouldn't let us execute. They were tremendously playful and one of them got a bit more frisky than Steve was expecting... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMF0g621s8
  14. Gombessa

    Monastery July 24 (Sunday)

    We kept hearing reports about murky conditions, but seeing how flat the wave model was, the team decided to swing by South Monastery, and I'm glad we did! The break was quiet and the surface was calm, and it stayed that way as we took our time gearing up, chatting with Bruce, James and a few...
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    Strange towers at McAbee (video)

    Yesterday was cool, overcast and calm, which imo is perfect diving weather. Steve and I hit McAbee early, planning to meander North towards the Aquarium. On the way there, we ran into just about everything - rafts of up to a dozen otters, a dive-bombing sea lion and playful harbor seal, a...
  16. Gombessa

    Wow, rough weekend

    When we arrived at Lobos, the ranger told us, "A bunch of people came and decided not to dive. Why don't you head down and check it out before you pay for parking?" Uh...wow. When we got to the parking lot, we saw a lot of swell and choppy waters, but nothing really all that bad. We did find...
  17. Gombessa

    Yesterday's diving was incredible! (with video)

    I was itching to get into the water all week. I had trouble sleeping the night before, and even checked out the forecast, which I've been trying to ignore. When we pulled up to Lobos, the sun was shining, the parking lot was absolutely packed with divers, and there were multiple floats out in...
  18. Gombessa

    Monday Night Dive video

    Hey everybody, What's shaking? I haven't been in the water much at all yet this year, so I was looking to turn that around with a nice, relaxing night dive. Cynthia and I met up as the sun was disappearing, and we had a long, 1.5 hour shallow single-tank dive along the wall. Not a lot of big...
  19. Gombessa

    Video: Hopkins Deep and Shale Ledge Jan 30, 2011

    It was a bit of a questionable day for boat diving, but sometimes taking the chance really pays off, even when you stay inside the bay. Many thanks to Jim and the crew of the Escapade for running the boat on a day when it would have been very easy to just sleep in. First dive was at Hopkins...
  20. Gombessa

    Video: Sunday Breakwater Dive

    It was raining pretty fiercely on Sunday, to the point where a section of 101 was flooded by about 1ft of water. Luckily, things were a bit calmer by the time we got to Monterey, and after calling a dive at MacAbee, we decided on Breakwater. One of my favorite BW dives is near the end of the...
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