Diving before the Rose Bowl

[Omb]

Hey....I might have free tickets to the Rose Bowl. Thinking about doing some diving before. Any good good boats going out of that area? I would prefer Orange county. Just looking to get wet while I am down there. I am still pretty new. Diving a couple years, have 30 dives or so. Just got AOW but pretty comfortable in cold water.

Thanks

Bakes

 

[beldridg]

Boat or shore dive or either?

- brett

 

[Omb]

Boat

 

[beldridg]

Boat

As far as I know, in Orange Country proper, there is only one dive boat that runs public trips and that is the Riviera in Dana Point: https://rivierayachtcharters.com/scuba-diving-&-snorkeling

If you expand your geography slightly north to LA, there there are a lot more options (I often dive on the Sundiver which is based in Alamitos Bay just south of Long Beach). Or, if you go south to San Diego, there are a couple options there as well.

- brett

 

[scubadada]

For San Diego San Diego dives

@Esprise Me may have additional recommendations for LA

Good luck

 

[Sam Miller III]

@Omb

Rose bowl= Pasadena -- Los Angeles County
Orange county = fifty traffic filled roads south of Pasadena
San Deigo = 100 miles south of Orange County
Be prepared

You will not be in Utah - (Provo?) (No snow!)

For the game you need two dedicated days
One long day for the game
The following day to visit all the parked floats up-close and personal

Then go diving
It is the holidays - boats may or may not be operating
Check boat availability and destination
Reserve spot on boat in advanced ($$$$)
Arrive early- boats depart on time
If possible, spend the night before on the boat

If in OC suggest local boat -
"Beach Cities SCUBA" owns and operates it -- very local dives- one to a nondescript "wreck"

SDM

 

[Esprise Me]

Yeah unfortunately I don't know of any other OC boats besides the Riviera. There are lots going out of San Pedro/Long Beach, which is barely north of OC. But am I understanding correctly that you want to go out on Friday, 12/31? That's maybe going to be tricky; most boats only do Saturdays and Sundays unless you arrange a private charter. (They're happy to go out during the week; it's a matter of finding enough divers to fill the boat.) If it is Friday, your best bet might actually be to hop on the ferry to Catalina (which you can do from Newport Beach, Long Beach, or San Pedro) and go to the dive park. I know you said you want a boat dive, but honestly the dive park has pretty much everything that's good about boat diving. If it's Saturday or Sunday you're looking for, let me know and I'll see what I can dig up.

 

[beldridg]

@Omb



If in OC suggest local boat -
"Beach Cities SCUBA" owns and operates it -- very local dives- one to a nondescript "wreck"

SDM

Yup, that dive boat is the Riviera and the wreck is the A.C.E, a 58-foot seiner about 115' feet deep.

- brett

 

[Sam Miller III]

@beldridg
Yup, that dive boat is the Riviera and the wreck is the A.C.E, a 58-foot seiner about 115' feet deep.

- brett
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[Omb]

Thanks for responses. I think the dive park is my best bet. Will get there Wed night and have Thurs and Friday to burn prior to the game on Saturday.