Barge at the Breakwater?

[dwashbur]

We've read that there's an old barge somewhere out by the end of the Breakwater. Anybody have general directions/headings to get to it?

 

[Peter_C]

Google is your friend Dave
BAUE Barge Project

Youtube always has something to share too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbYvlzEi3iQ&feature=related

 

[Gombessa]

MoCal DIR - Dive Reports

You can use the google maps-based "Dive Sites" feature to locate it too.

 

[Ben_ca]

It's quite a kick out thre though and you run the risk of surfacing right where the boats pass by...

I would classify it as a "virtual overhead" and plan accordingly

 

[bbianchi]

Thats a great tip. I still would love to make it out there some day to check it out.

 

[dwashbur]

So how's the swim as compared to, say, the pipeline to the Metridium field?

 

[Hinalo]

Never been out there, but I seem to remember a team kitty post somewhere back there about a line somebody had run from the breakwater out to the barge.

 

[dwashbur]

Never been out there, but I seem to remember a team kitty post somewhere back there about a line somebody had run from the breakwater out to the barge.

That would be nice! The BAUE page mentioned survey lines around the object itself, but nothing about a guide rope to it. Can anybody confirm or (whatever the opposite of confirm is) this?

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

So how's the swim as compared to, say, the pipeline to the Metridium field?

About the same as the swim all the way to the Met Field.

Do be careful as there's boat traffic about a 100' farther out from the breakwater.

I dive it from my boat with some regularity, and once a year from the beach (for the
California Beach Dive Photo Competition). It's, IIRC, about a 25 minute surface swim.
There's info here: http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/gps.html on how to find it
by eyeball.

It's fun because it's a very different ecosystem, and fairly well protected.

 

[Peter_C]

Ben, how long does it take on a scooter?