Dive Report: Vets Park August 28th, 2017 7:30 AM

[shucksun]

Easy diving at Vets today, walk in walk out through 1' soft waves. Went to the Monument and then down slope to 95' to add another 10' to M's personal depth record. Viz below sixty feet was 20', above that 10+'.

Divemetrics: 45min, 95FSW, "chilly"F

J. Reeb
Dark-Thirty Diver

 

[shucksun]

Correction: The Report is for July 29th, not Aug.28th.-J.Reeb

 

[Ken Kurtis]

For a moment, I thought you'd found a diving time travel machine.


- Ken

 

[Sam Miller III]

Ken,

We Kalifornians live and dive In the fast lane--.so fast we time dive in the future

sdm

 

[shucksun]

Maybe I will dive on the 28th to validate my time travel observation!

 

[undrwater]

I will predict your prediction is accurate.

 

[Sam Miller III]

@shucksun.
I enjoy reading the accounts of your diving activity and sincerely hope this small mistake does not dampen your enthusiasm for posting in the future.

I note that many of your post like this one are about common popular LA & OC dive locations....interesting but boring (Ken's reports alone are boring enough to win the gold metal no need to compete )

How about some more less popular perhaps less dove locations in the southland?

There are four good diving guides which you might want to investigate and or acquire as guides for future dives
(I hope you are NOT one of the candy divers who needs a guide to hold their hand on a new dive)

1) Diving west 1973 (?) covers all of the southland -- I was the coauthor of the OC section...I know the area well and had the opportunity to dive the county for about 50 years. I think I have a copy of the OC section if you would like a copy PM me with snail mail address

2) Schelkers dive guide - Can't recall its name but do recall he exposed Miller's reef in SoOC which was my private hunting grounds for 15 years --it was sorta like a sea food super market for me and my son

3) Santa Monica Bay diving and fishing log by Dr. Otto Gasser ( fellow LA Co UW instructor and dive book author) Otto does know that area !

4) Max Bottom time's book on PV...haven't seen it - know nothing about the book

There you are -- guides to adventure

Sam Miller,111

 

[merxlin]

#4 above- Diving the Palos Verdes Peninsula by Phil Garner (Max Bottomtime here) - Diving the Palos Verdes Peninsula: Phil Garner: 9781469981925: Amazon.com: Books

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I have all four. Diving West has sections about hunting, cooking and shell collecting as well as short descriptions of sites throughout California and Baja. Most end with "good for hunting".

Dale Sheckler's book, later updated by Darren Douglass has good reviews of sites but included only two Palos Verdes sites, Christmas Tree Cove and Malaga Cove.

Otto Gasser's book shows the location and describes rockpiles and wrecks in the Santa Monica Bay. You can now find these sites on Google Earth but without the book you won't know what you'll find until you dive there.

BTW, I enjoy Jeff's reports. I do the same thing because of divers reporting conditions when I was new. I don't find them boring at all. I have over 350 dives at Marineland and still enjoy it when I dive there.

 

[shucksun]

Well I appreciate that anyone at all reads my posts, and I have dove a few more sites around PV than just Vets (i.e. Breakwater Elbow, Whites Pt, Pt. Vicente, Hawthorne Reef, Kevin's Reef, Terranea, Flat Rock, RAT, Haggerty's,) Normally I go to Vets because a South swell has closed Laguna. For fish life I haven't seen anything in the Southland that tops the MPA's at Laguna, but if you like macro and nudibrachs the PV reefs are excellent.

I understand what Phil says about 350 dives at Marineland, I have 75 plus at Heisler Park and it continues to hold my interest as no two dives there are ever the same.

Sam, I hope you would consider coming out on the Giant Stride with us sometime, we'd love to have you share the day with us.