Dark and Dirty Diving

[MaxBottomtime]

We left the harbor at sunrise to beat the wind this morning. The ocean was the flattest we have seen it in a long time. Things were looking up until we actually got in the water. Visibility at Golf Ball Reef was a dark five feet with surge thrown in for fun.

 

[drrich2]

I'd never know the bad conditions from your photos. Nice color on those guys.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I had to get within two inches for each nudibranch. It's strange diving a site you're used to and seeing it in a different light, as in very little light. My next dive report will be from British Columbia. Hopefully we'll have more than five feet vis.

 

[Kevrumbo]

Friday 7am with J. Reeb on the Olympic Wreck might as well have been a night dive -the murkiness (plankton bloom?) went all the way down to 21m, and at 30m depth it "opened up" to maybe 15' viz at best with hazy water clarity. Oil rigs had similar conditions too. . .

Have fun up there in BC/God's Pocket!