Anger Management

[MaxBottomtime]

I often get depressed when dive conditions are bad for a few weeks. This past week was different. I was angry. I have read many dive reports over the past few days delighting everyone with blue water and incredible visibility. During that spell of great conditions the Santa Monica Bay has been socked in with a moving blanket of fog. Just as it began to clear in one area another dense cloud would move in to take its place. This morning I wake up at 5:30. Merry said it was still foggy so we went back to sleep. By 10:00 the fog had thinned to the north so we raced up to the Elevated Pipe off El Segundo.

Visibility underwater was as good as I've seen here, up to thirty feet. We had no trouble finding tiny subjects among the moon sponges. By the time we surfaced the wind had picked up and we had to bounce our way home in the choppy seas. If 2018 will allow us to get in the water once a week I might be happy by the end of the year. Maybe.

Mytilus californianus

Doto kya

Trapania velox

Metridium senile

Lysmata californica, Red rock shrimp

Doto Form A

Trinchesia albocrusta

Doriopsilla albopunctata

 

[Stoo]

This will make you feel better... I was planning a chilly shore dive in Tobermory yesterday.... this is what I was faced with... too solid to push through, not solid enough to saw through... Soon though. But then ice-diving is so much work and requires other people, and sometimes I just wanna flap around and look at rocks and old wood... (I love your shots BTW)

Here's a link to a few images from that same site taken last year when freeze-up stayed "lose"...

https://www.facebook.com/stuart.seldon/media_set?set=a.10155262122989505.1073741926.632159504&type=3

 

[blue steal]

Yes our group of dive-vets dove OML today and it was a great dive with excellent VIS, super high tide for an easy entry/exit, and lots of critters. First time that we had dropped in exactly on Ted's pinnacle.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Was there any fog?

 

[Altamira]

Great photos. Thank you for a good start to 2018. Wow, I am amazed I did not have to correct the date!

 

[Coztick]

It was -35 here last night, no ocean for 700 miles. Anger is a relative term....#%*€%/\%:: snow, ×÷*%##\* ice....

Have a nice dive!

 

[drrich2]

I was angry. I have read many dive reports over the past few days delighting everyone with blue water and incredible visibility. During that spell of great conditions the Santa Monica Bay has been socked in with a moving blanket of fog. Just as it began to clear in one area another dense cloud would move in to take its place.

We're gonna turn you into a warm water vacation diver yet!

Glad you guys finally got out to some good conditions & photos.

Richard.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

That won't happen. I've dives Mexico twice, Hawaii three times and the Philippines and was less than impressed. It's much easier, but way more expensive and in many cases I found fewer species in warm water.

 

[blue steal]

There was some fog but quickly burned off by 0900. During and after the dive sun was out. Around noon it started to get overcast. Phil, why don't you guys take a break from boat diving and come shore dive over at OML with Rev. AL and the dive-Vets. The garden off the point has a nice memorial section.

 

[TrimixToo]

I skipped the dive at Nubble Light again over the weekend. It's just too *&$@@# cold up there this year.