Dive reports with beach/weather conditions

[adurso]

071510 Service Club @10am no surf entered and viz appeared to be 4 feet or so, as we moved out to 18 feet viz dropped to nothing. Lots of silt coming in. Bottom temp 77.

Another group of divers had the same experience with the viz abruptly going away. They also had an anchor dropped right next to them and the boater pulled their flag up and told them they "were too close" to his boat

They were in 25 feet and the viz dropped on them also

 

[adurso]

071610
South Brohard@ 0800
Smooth as glass, initially viz was 6 feet or better, dropped down after second bar and viz vanished
bottom temp 78 in 18 ft
silt everywhere

1000 Alhambra
smooth as glass still
viz looked better than other day from entry
dropped into 13 feet viz was 4 ft
18 feet viz came and went among blocks
best viz 4 feet@18
bottom temp 79

flounder, lizard fish, remora, pinfish and a persistent sheepshead
oh, and teeth, no megs or anything amazing

 

[adurso]

071710
Alhambra @0830
Surface starting to kick up
zero viz at beach, dropped into 0 viz then opened to 1 foot
lots of surge between blocks
viz varied from place to place, some areas we got 2 feet, others we got 6 inches
big flounder in several places. lots of boats overhead
bottom temp coming up, today was 81 in places 79 in others

 

[Sh@rkW@tcher]

17 July 10
Venice Public Beach

1030

Surf: 1 ft
Wind: 10-15 mph ESE
Water temp: 82
Viz over sand :2 ft
Viz around the blocks and seaward: 6-10 ft in areas

Found lots of small teeth, batfish and a huge hermit crab. One diver in our group found a nice 2" meg.

 

[dlscozz]

July 17, 2010 Alhambra 12:00

We dropped down on the blocks with viz varying between 1-3 feet. Depth between 16'-18'.
Two dives 45 mins and just over an hour. Viz remained about the same the entire time. Lots of small teeth and a 5" fake meg with a number written in the back???? Decent surge on the blocks and good sightings of different fish. Great day of Diving. I will post a pic of the fake meg under the picture/id thread if anyone knows where that came from.

 

[dkramer]

Did S. Broahard this AM. Slight chop to the water, not too bad. Incoming tide, water temp was 82 & viz was around 6 ft. Nice dive. Saw a good sized snook & flounder & had 3 trigger fish chasing me around at the end of the dive.

Oops! Almost forgot, I did notice that the drift algae is starting to come in.

 

[2TH DIVR]

7/18/10
Service Club
Time 8:45 am
Seas <1'
Water temp 84
Vis 2'- 15'+ avg 4'+

No great finds

 

[dkramer]

Did S Brohard again this am. Viz started off kinda crummy at first, with a lot of snot in the water. But as the dive progressed, viz cleared up to about 6-8 ft. Incoming tide, water temp 84 & was getting a little bumpy by the time I pulled anchor.

 

[DanBMW]

Diving a mile off of the Venice Beach on The Hammerhead yesterday ( 7-22-10 ) Water on top and bottom was between 83-85 degrees, Visibility on the bottom was between 2 feet and 0. Lots of slime in the water and on the Boneyard, we found lots of Megs and little teeth. I'll post a picture a little later. Wife found a beautiful 4'' Meg in almost perfect condition. At least 20+ good size teeth were found from all of the divers.

 

[Sh@rkW@tcher]

25 July 10
Venice Public Beach (north of Alhambra)

1030
Wind: East 5-10 mph
Water temp: 85 F
Seas: <1 ft
Tide: High and Incoming
Viz: 6-8 ft

Diving with a scuba refresher student at the blocks, found plenty of small teeth and spotted one small (24"dia) female loggerhead SeaTurtle. Lot of drift algae around & inbetween the blocks.