Narced Out
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My dive buddy and I did two dives in the ugliest water we have ever swam in yesterday at Torrey pines. We literally couldn't see our fins from the surface on the kick out. When you looked down all you saw was dark brown and blakish looking color.
Vis: 0ft on surface, 5-8ft on bottom. Seems to be either an algae bloom or
surface murk layer.
Temp: 54 degrees
1st dive bottom time: 55mins
2nd dive bottom time: 67 mins
max depth: 35ft
Came up with around 500-700psi on each dive. I dive an al80.
Anyways, we headed out to the reef for our first dive and dropped down and swam
for about 5-10 on sand then hit the amazing gigantic reef. I have never really
noticed it but this reef has some amazing rock structures here for only being in
30-40 feet of water. The kelp is pretty healthy here along with anything else
that grows here. Lot of life, i did see a guitar fish chilling on the bottom. I thought it was a shark. Lots of lobster here too.
First dive was 55 minutes!! (We were both in wetsuits)!! We were freeeeeezzzing
but made for a good dive. We saw 1 squid attached to something on the sand but
it wouldn't let go so we continued. We just looked around and explored the reef.
Was a really fun dive.
Second dive....let me just say i never want to do a lobster dive here again....
We kicked out around 2 again for our second dive and managed to drop in right
over the reef. We decended in almost pitch black until we hit the bottom. I swear the kick is faster to this reef than it is to the canyon at the shores. Vis was same, 5-8ft on the reef, but it was ok for the dive. We Cruised around for 67 minutes. After the dive i got to watch a nice sunset on the back of the park rangers truck for an hour and a half.. hehe. Anyways, two fun dives.
After diving in these type of conditions, i feel more comfortable yet again with diving in poor conditions. Hope it clears up soon.
Jacob
Vis: 0ft on surface, 5-8ft on bottom. Seems to be either an algae bloom or
surface murk layer.
Temp: 54 degrees
1st dive bottom time: 55mins
2nd dive bottom time: 67 mins
max depth: 35ft
Came up with around 500-700psi on each dive. I dive an al80.
Anyways, we headed out to the reef for our first dive and dropped down and swam
for about 5-10 on sand then hit the amazing gigantic reef. I have never really
noticed it but this reef has some amazing rock structures here for only being in
30-40 feet of water. The kelp is pretty healthy here along with anything else
that grows here. Lot of life, i did see a guitar fish chilling on the bottom. I thought it was a shark. Lots of lobster here too.
First dive was 55 minutes!! (We were both in wetsuits)!! We were freeeeeezzzing
but made for a good dive. We saw 1 squid attached to something on the sand but
it wouldn't let go so we continued. We just looked around and explored the reef.
Was a really fun dive.
Second dive....let me just say i never want to do a lobster dive here again....
We kicked out around 2 again for our second dive and managed to drop in right
over the reef. We decended in almost pitch black until we hit the bottom. I swear the kick is faster to this reef than it is to the canyon at the shores. Vis was same, 5-8ft on the reef, but it was ok for the dive. We Cruised around for 67 minutes. After the dive i got to watch a nice sunset on the back of the park rangers truck for an hour and a half.. hehe. Anyways, two fun dives.
After diving in these type of conditions, i feel more comfortable yet again with diving in poor conditions. Hope it clears up soon.
Jacob
