Dive the Coast October 15th 2011!!

[H2Ocean]

Dive the Coast 2013:

Aquatic Discovery (Aquatic Discovery) is the official dive shop for Santa Cruz and is organizing a prelude ?test run? to the statewide dive. In a first-of-its-kind event, dozens of divers will cover the roughly 25-mile dive from Santa Cruz to Monterey on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. The shop has agreed to charge only fuel costs. For more information and to reserve a spot, email charters@silverprincecharters.com.

The October dive is a prelude to the largest mass dive in history: Diving as much of the roughly 840-mile coastline as legally possible, with hundreds of kayakers and boats providing surface support.

Still in the early planning stages, the idea is to get a group of divers to relay a California flag from San Diego to Orange, then from Orange to Los Angeles, and on up the coast until it reaches the Oregon border. Separated by counties, the divers will also be raising funds for the ocean-conservation organizations of their choice by getting people or businesses to sponsor them.

Dive the Coast is still looking for organizers in Orange, San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties. For more information or to get involved, go to Dive The Coast :: index.

 

[Jak Crow]

Is this going to be a regular dive or is there some kind of planned activity?

 

[Lenaxia]

Hi Jak!

This "test dive" is going to be a preliminary run as was mentioned. It will be a one time thing where we're trying to get an idea of run times and distance covered for different types of divers with different types of tanks.

The plan is to take two Silver Prince boats out and do a "completion relay." Where we're basically looking to just cover the entire distance, not to hand off a baton; This is in order to, in this case, cover the distance as quickly as possible as we want to cover the 22 nautical miles across the bay in one day.

The Silver Prince has plenty of experience with swimmers trying to cross the bay and providing support to them and what we'll be doing is going to be very similar, despite that, we don't have a good measure on how far and how fast a single diver can go. That is what this event is looking to provide information on.

From this information, we can better estimate the number of divers and the amount of time needed for divers to complete a given length of coast.

The actual Dive the Coast event is planned for 2013 so we are still in the very early stages of this process and we want to get as many divers involved as possible!

If you have any more questions feel free to ask!

-Mike