April trip to San Diego

[joecad]

I’ll be visiting San Diego with my 15 year old son in mid-April, and I have a few questions for the locals:
-What can we expect for water temps at depth? We dive Ma, Me, RI (we’re in the Boston area), where the summer temps are 52-62 or so. We dive 7 mil with hooded vests, is this sufficient?

-We’re looking for a good boat dive operation to use (day trips), any recommendations? Any that offer guided dives? Do they consistently go out mid week or weekends only?

-I've found a few operations on line that do guided shore dives, how long are the surface swims, on average?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[scottfiji]

- 49 degrees
- not really

- horizon, lois anne

- not sure about the guided dives, they aren't that common, or useful imho for divers who have dove in cold water before

- in april, mainly weekends

- in april, you'll be shore diving la jolla shores, surface swims are maybe 100-200 yards (the vis at la jolla cove, with no surface swim, will be quite poor probably)

I'm sure more people will chime in with other opinions, answers

have fun!

scott