Ben_ca
Contributor
Dive Report 31 Mar 07
Drove down early and snagged breakfast and hung around the Breakwater for a little while. Found the wall full by 0730... I guess it's warmed up enough for the classes. Chatted with Chuck and Glenn for a little bit and admired the huge aluminum dive boat someone hauled out...
0730 and the wall was already full
The vis looked great... I could see divers swimming in
The classes were there in force...
This neat boat was loading up with divers...
Pt Lobos
Dive 1 Granite Pt Wall: Rob Lee and I buddied up and decided on Granite Pt wall.
Neither of us have every been there and we felt like exploring so off it was... made it out to the far side of the cove and then dropped to 60 fsw and followed the wall to the North... ducking in and out of canyons... Amazing vis with Hydro coral and sheer walls. The vis was about 40... vertically I could see the waves above... I could also see about 40 below to the sand... at 30 mins we turned and kicked back toward our start point... on our return we thumbed it at 50 mins... taking 10 mins to hit the surface... We were fooled by the "Sand Channel" on the other side thinking we were closer to the parking lot than we were... but what the heck it was a nice day out and the kick back thru the not so think kelp wasn't so bad.
Amazing color
The amount of life was stunning
Dive 2 was skills at 20 ft inside Whalers... S-drills facing each other... sdrills while swimming side by side... Valve drills... bag shoots... Valve drills at 20 then at 10 then S drill and OOA ascent from 10 to surface...
Toward the end of the day I took my time rinsing things before hitting the road.. the fog rolled in and it started to get chilly
It was a good day to go diving...
More pictures here on the BAUE website:
Granite Pt. Pinnacles, 3/31/2007 Photos by Robert Lee
Drove down early and snagged breakfast and hung around the Breakwater for a little while. Found the wall full by 0730... I guess it's warmed up enough for the classes. Chatted with Chuck and Glenn for a little bit and admired the huge aluminum dive boat someone hauled out...
0730 and the wall was already full
The vis looked great... I could see divers swimming in
The classes were there in force...
This neat boat was loading up with divers...
Pt Lobos
Dive 1 Granite Pt Wall: Rob Lee and I buddied up and decided on Granite Pt wall.
Neither of us have every been there and we felt like exploring so off it was... made it out to the far side of the cove and then dropped to 60 fsw and followed the wall to the North... ducking in and out of canyons... Amazing vis with Hydro coral and sheer walls. The vis was about 40... vertically I could see the waves above... I could also see about 40 below to the sand... at 30 mins we turned and kicked back toward our start point... on our return we thumbed it at 50 mins... taking 10 mins to hit the surface... We were fooled by the "Sand Channel" on the other side thinking we were closer to the parking lot than we were... but what the heck it was a nice day out and the kick back thru the not so think kelp wasn't so bad.
Amazing color
The amount of life was stunning
Dive 2 was skills at 20 ft inside Whalers... S-drills facing each other... sdrills while swimming side by side... Valve drills... bag shoots... Valve drills at 20 then at 10 then S drill and OOA ascent from 10 to surface...
Toward the end of the day I took my time rinsing things before hitting the road.. the fog rolled in and it started to get chilly
It was a good day to go diving...
More pictures here on the BAUE website:
Granite Pt. Pinnacles, 3/31/2007 Photos by Robert Lee