Crazy surge video - San Clemente 06-05-05

[Mo2vation]

Is that really Bull Kelp? I always thought Bull Kelp was something different.

Been in that surge before. Know it well...

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Ken

 

[sapphire]

Weren't the "A-Tickets" for the wild rides?

Ummm, no, Ann Marie... this is how we can tell how young you are !! The A tickets were for the lame rides like the Main Street Horse Carriages and things not too exciting at all! We always had A's and B's left over, and NEVER enough E's!!

Jennifer

 

[miket]

Is that really Bull Kelp? I always thought Bull Kelp was something different.

I thought so, maybe I am wrong? I always thought that "Giant" kelp was the monster stuff in deeper water that coats the surface and "Bull" kelp was the shorter, single stock stuff. I tried to find some info about the "common" kelp species at the Channel Islands.

The video rig is the following:
Panasonic GS-400 3CCD widescreen camcorder
Ocean Images Inc. Housing for GS-400 (with manual control and wide angle upgrade)
The red filter was off for this video.

I am very pleased with this setup. It seems to all be about manual mode with a fixed manually-set white balance. This video had focus set on auto, but I usually manually fix the focus about 12 inches from the lens so the camera doesn't search for focus (it always fixes on some particle in the water).

This camcorder and housing lets me manually control exposure as well, but I need to practice and not be in this kind of surge.

I found with this system that the red filter doesn't need to be used until about 60+ feet, but brightness takes a big hit. I dove a pinnacle at Catalina last week and used the filter and loved the results. Color totally came back, but it seems like only on sunny days as Sunday's deep dives with the filter was not viewable as it was too dark.

I would like to re-visit this spot when it is calm, It must be crawling with critters. Couldn't get near them with the camera in that kind of surge.

Cheers,
Mike - Electrostatic

 

[fishfood]

I remember those tickets!! (Okay, so at the time I was really young and probably thought that Mr. Toad's Wild Adventure was the place to be! I'm sticking to that story!) Weren't the "A-Tickets" for the wild rides?

E ticket was the wild rides like big thunder mountan,,, A ticket would be for like king arthur carrousel

but how would i know im only 22

 

[ChrisM]

E tickets!!!! I remember those well, always had like 2 in the book, and like 10 A's for the stupid Snow White rides.

Cool video... I know that surge well!