Can a guy swim or scooter to Quast Rock?

[superchoriflai]

Can Quast Rock be reached from the shore at La Jolla Cove via a reasonable swim or with a scooter?

Also, is the rock pile a good dive?

 

[dpbishop]

Dive bums has a review & directions to Quast rock. It's swimable if you have the legs. I've never dove it. (never heard about it till now) Ive have dove Rockpile before, It's pretty deep & has better viz than the cove, usually. Lots of lobster and local fish life, as I recall.

Divebums - A San Diego Dive Website

 

[rob_budny]

I dove Quast Rock from a boat several years ago. My recollection is that it was diveable from the cove, but that it was a very healthy swim. I had a great dive there (saw my first giant sea bass) and after the dive I did a little web search on it. I came across the story below that I thought was pretty cool.

Another neat story about Quast is that Rick Grigg (who was the first surfer to ride one of those monster 30 foot waves at Waimea Bay in Hawaii's North Shore; he went to high school in Honolulu, graduating from Punahou, same place that Steve Case, developer of AOL, graduated; Rick also got his bachelor's degree at the University of Hawaii and then came to SIO in the mid 1960s. While he was there, he acted as a consultant to several "beach" type movies) also used Quast as one of his study sites. One day, while he and his buddy were at Quast, a gray whale came by. Rick turned around to see it fairly close, probably in the vicinity of 10 feet. At any rate, Rick's motions must have scared/alarmed the whale, and it gave a kick with its broad tail. That little kick pinned Rick up against the vertical wall at Quast, ripped his face mask off, tore his regulator out of his mouth, and even pulled his watch off his wrist. Rick got slammed up against the wall, scratching his face. Almost immediately, his buddy, who was at some distance, came by and recovered Rick's face mask for him (Rick had already gotten the regulator back into his mouth), and after some search, found his wrist watch as well. Quite an exciting story.

 

[superchoriflai]

Dive bums has a review & directions to Quast rock. It's swimable if you have the legs. I've never dove it. (never heard about it till now) Ive have dove Rockpile before, It's pretty deep & has better viz than the cove, usually. Lots of lobster and local fish life, as I recall.

Divebums - A San Diego Dive Website

I dove the cove on Friday but the vis was poor, especially in the afternoon. Vis was better out toward the 1/2 mile marker but that's all the farther we made it. Is the rock pile closer to the 1 buoy?

 

[superchoriflai]

I dove Quast Rock from a boat several years ago. My recollection is that it was diveable from the cove, but that it was a very healthy swim. I had a great dive there (saw my first giant sea bass) and after the dive I did a little web search on it. I came across the story below that I thought was pretty cool.

Great story -- I haven't seen that one. As for the "healthy swim", would it be close to the mile buoy or farther still?