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I wonder if you could get disney land to let you dive the new nemo exhibit early in the morning :O
Diving near Disneyland?
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I read a Disneyland thread from a few years ago where folks divulged their secret desires to dive the old submarine ride. I think that as long as there is a reasonable quantity of water and some stuff to look at, most of us are reasonably curious.
As for the Nemo ride, I'll let you know!
As for the Nemo ride, I'll let you know!
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Suppercloriflia. FYI
Divers Cove in Laguna Beach--
If you and your daughter are aforded the opportunity to dive "Diver's Cove" you will be diving in a cove with great diving historical significance
There have been a number of changes to the area and the divers who have populated it in the last almost sixty years..
A little history-that has survived against the call of the running tide-by one who experienced it and had the forthought to record it.
YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN…”
This summer I visited with some relatives and old friends to reconnect with my roots down in southern California, in “smogsville,” as the smog shrouded area of Los Angeles and Orange County is known by most Californians who reside in other areas of the state.
This visit certainly verified the message in the Thomas Wolfe book “You can’t go home again” which I found so difficult to comprehend as a young college student. Yes, Thomas Wolfe was correct! You can’t go home again.
I spent a very early Saturday morning at Diver’s Cove in Laguna Beach, the fountainhead of American sport diving. It has been a popular diving location since recreational diving began along the California coast in the early 1930s. “The cove” as local divers refer to it, was catapulted from obscurity into international diving fame when it was chosen as the location for the world’s first competitive spear fishing meet in June 1950. The Compton, California “Dolphins Spear Fishing club”, won the meet with a three man team consisting of Ken Kummerfeild, Paul Hoss and Pat O’Malley.
Lots of changes have occurred in and around Divers Cove with the passage of fifty-seven years.
In the 1950s the rolling hills surrounding Diver’s Cove were devoid of housing and covered with dry chaparral, which emitted the classic California golden glow always associated with the “Golden state.” Now when viewed from the cove the hills appear almost surrealistic emerald green, blanketed by modern multi- million dollar homes on well-manicured lawns interconnected labyrinth of roads.
It is no longer possible to drive up to the edge of the cliff at Diver’s Cove and park haphazardly. Parking places are now regulated. They are neatly identified with white stripes on the concrete and crowned with a row of coin eating parking meters; silent sentinels waiting for the next quarter for fifteen minutes of violation free parking.
Also absent is the steel cable that provided beach goers and divers to access to the beach. It was a much-appreciated gift from some unknown beach lover who spent their time; money and effort to securely bury one end of the cable in cement and dangle the rest of the cable over the cliff to create a Tarzan style hand over hand beach access. Now modern stairs complete with handrails and a drinking fountain welcomes the divers to the beach
The beach scene I remember so well from my youth is now only a distant memory, but they are memories of gold as were the hills surrounding the cove.
In the genesis of recreational diving the beach was populated with young athletic sun tanned male youths clad in the diving costume of the era, baggy long underwear, tucked in to equally baggy swim trunks, round diving masks on their faces, short green fins on their feet and the weapon of choice a “Jab Stick” unceremoniously stuck in the ground.
Like ancient tribes returning from a successful hunt they stood in small groups, wrapped in surplus WWII olive drab army or navy blue blankets, shivering and blue lipped from the cold of the water and the chill in the air. Roaring bonfires fed by WWII surplus tires added much needed warmth as it belched fourth thick heavy black smoke into the clean crisp smog free Orange County air.
Divers Cove has now become a popular diving destination for dive training classes. It is populated every Saturday and Sunday morning by young certified diving instructors who have arrived before 7:00 to conduct the final ocean check out dive for their classes of aspiring divers. Under the ever-watchful eye of their SCUBA instructor, young and old, male and female don the costume of modern diving. Bright colored wet suits have replaced the long underwear for thermal protection; clear form fitting twin lens masks of clear silicone replaced the black round rubber masks; multi hued long lightweight split plastic fins now adorn their feet replacing the short green Churchill fins. Not a spearfishing weapon is insight, since this area has been a game reserve for over a generation.
Yes, there have been a lot of changes in the last fifty plus years. Tomas Wolfe’s message has been verified. You can’t go home again, but you can relive fond memories from the distant past and dream and hope for the future of recreational diving.
Only the sea, the eternal sea, has relentlessly remained the same
DR, SAMUEL MILLER, 111
copywrite 2007
From my column "Diver Bubbles" which appeared in the five cities TimesPress Recorder
FYI...
Yes there have been changes some good and some bad - but that is progress.
There has also been a progress of the diver, from the hunter to the looky loo tourist from male dominated to a coed activity from trial and error experience to modern supper dupper pooper fuzzy faced instructors--yes there has been change and yes there has been improvement and there will be future improvements and that is good!
sdm
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Divers Cove in Laguna Beach--
If you and your daughter are aforded the opportunity to dive "Diver's Cove" you will be diving in a cove with great diving historical significance
There have been a number of changes to the area and the divers who have populated it in the last almost sixty years..
A little history-that has survived against the call of the running tide-by one who experienced it and had the forthought to record it.
YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN…”
This summer I visited with some relatives and old friends to reconnect with my roots down in southern California, in “smogsville,” as the smog shrouded area of Los Angeles and Orange County is known by most Californians who reside in other areas of the state.
This visit certainly verified the message in the Thomas Wolfe book “You can’t go home again” which I found so difficult to comprehend as a young college student. Yes, Thomas Wolfe was correct! You can’t go home again.
I spent a very early Saturday morning at Diver’s Cove in Laguna Beach, the fountainhead of American sport diving. It has been a popular diving location since recreational diving began along the California coast in the early 1930s. “The cove” as local divers refer to it, was catapulted from obscurity into international diving fame when it was chosen as the location for the world’s first competitive spear fishing meet in June 1950. The Compton, California “Dolphins Spear Fishing club”, won the meet with a three man team consisting of Ken Kummerfeild, Paul Hoss and Pat O’Malley.
Lots of changes have occurred in and around Divers Cove with the passage of fifty-seven years.
In the 1950s the rolling hills surrounding Diver’s Cove were devoid of housing and covered with dry chaparral, which emitted the classic California golden glow always associated with the “Golden state.” Now when viewed from the cove the hills appear almost surrealistic emerald green, blanketed by modern multi- million dollar homes on well-manicured lawns interconnected labyrinth of roads.
It is no longer possible to drive up to the edge of the cliff at Diver’s Cove and park haphazardly. Parking places are now regulated. They are neatly identified with white stripes on the concrete and crowned with a row of coin eating parking meters; silent sentinels waiting for the next quarter for fifteen minutes of violation free parking.
Also absent is the steel cable that provided beach goers and divers to access to the beach. It was a much-appreciated gift from some unknown beach lover who spent their time; money and effort to securely bury one end of the cable in cement and dangle the rest of the cable over the cliff to create a Tarzan style hand over hand beach access. Now modern stairs complete with handrails and a drinking fountain welcomes the divers to the beach
The beach scene I remember so well from my youth is now only a distant memory, but they are memories of gold as were the hills surrounding the cove.
In the genesis of recreational diving the beach was populated with young athletic sun tanned male youths clad in the diving costume of the era, baggy long underwear, tucked in to equally baggy swim trunks, round diving masks on their faces, short green fins on their feet and the weapon of choice a “Jab Stick” unceremoniously stuck in the ground.
Like ancient tribes returning from a successful hunt they stood in small groups, wrapped in surplus WWII olive drab army or navy blue blankets, shivering and blue lipped from the cold of the water and the chill in the air. Roaring bonfires fed by WWII surplus tires added much needed warmth as it belched fourth thick heavy black smoke into the clean crisp smog free Orange County air.
Divers Cove has now become a popular diving destination for dive training classes. It is populated every Saturday and Sunday morning by young certified diving instructors who have arrived before 7:00 to conduct the final ocean check out dive for their classes of aspiring divers. Under the ever-watchful eye of their SCUBA instructor, young and old, male and female don the costume of modern diving. Bright colored wet suits have replaced the long underwear for thermal protection; clear form fitting twin lens masks of clear silicone replaced the black round rubber masks; multi hued long lightweight split plastic fins now adorn their feet replacing the short green Churchill fins. Not a spearfishing weapon is insight, since this area has been a game reserve for over a generation.
Yes, there have been a lot of changes in the last fifty plus years. Tomas Wolfe’s message has been verified. You can’t go home again, but you can relive fond memories from the distant past and dream and hope for the future of recreational diving.
Only the sea, the eternal sea, has relentlessly remained the same
DR, SAMUEL MILLER, 111
copywrite 2007
From my column "Diver Bubbles" which appeared in the five cities TimesPress Recorder
FYI...
Yes there have been changes some good and some bad - but that is progress.
There has also been a progress of the diver, from the hunter to the looky loo tourist from male dominated to a coed activity from trial and error experience to modern supper dupper pooper fuzzy faced instructors--yes there has been change and yes there has been improvement and there will be future improvements and that is good!
sdm
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Sam:
What a great bit of history - thanks for taking the time to post that, it was enjoyable to read. I grew up in the Bay Area and appreciate the changes that have taken place.
In keeping with those sentiments, I came across a web site some time ago giving some more history from a little farther south from a group called the Bottom Scratchers Club. http://www.freedive.net/bottom_scratchers/bottom_scratchers.htm.
We'll end up in Laguna Beach Wed, Thu, and Sat mornings around 6:30 and I'm looking forward to dives and the history. Thanks again.
What a great bit of history - thanks for taking the time to post that, it was enjoyable to read. I grew up in the Bay Area and appreciate the changes that have taken place.
In keeping with those sentiments, I came across a web site some time ago giving some more history from a little farther south from a group called the Bottom Scratchers Club. http://www.freedive.net/bottom_scratchers/bottom_scratchers.htm.
We'll end up in Laguna Beach Wed, Thu, and Sat mornings around 6:30 and I'm looking forward to dives and the history. Thanks again.
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Thank you for your comments..
LA & especially OC is loaded with dive history, heck that is where it all began!
Those brave and some would say foolish young men, and occasional young women who seached for adventure in the unknown unexplored so many years ago with crude homemade equipment are all now in the terminal phase of life. As with the call of the running tide dive history is rapidly being lost; almost every week another member of the tribe begins diving in the big reef in the sky and even more unrecorded history is lost. Sad!
Yes, I am familar and well aquainted with the SD "Bottom Scratchers" spearfishing club, the first spearfishing club in the world. Once again only a pitiful few remain. I was one of the 100 or so Spearfishermen who were honored to have been presented with not one but two 1939 designed Bottom Scatcher spear guns. Seven feet long with point and more powerful than a locomotive.....
May I suggest that you also read the "Legends of diving" at www.portagequarry.com for a little more history not found in training manuals.
Thanks again and enjoy OC diving as I have foe 60 years,
sdm
LA & especially OC is loaded with dive history, heck that is where it all began!
Those brave and some would say foolish young men, and occasional young women who seached for adventure in the unknown unexplored so many years ago with crude homemade equipment are all now in the terminal phase of life. As with the call of the running tide dive history is rapidly being lost; almost every week another member of the tribe begins diving in the big reef in the sky and even more unrecorded history is lost. Sad!
Yes, I am familar and well aquainted with the SD "Bottom Scratchers" spearfishing club, the first spearfishing club in the world. Once again only a pitiful few remain. I was one of the 100 or so Spearfishermen who were honored to have been presented with not one but two 1939 designed Bottom Scatcher spear guns. Seven feet long with point and more powerful than a locomotive.....
May I suggest that you also read the "Legends of diving" at www.portagequarry.com for a little more history not found in training manuals.
Thanks again and enjoy OC diving as I have foe 60 years,
sdm
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Did you get to make it to Laguna Beach? I was at Cresent on Saturday and Diver's on Sunday. Everyone gave me and my buddies crap for being crazy enough to go through the surf and after the rain. Especially Saturday, it was pretty fricken big, too big some might say, but it was SO worth it to me.
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Thanks for the suggestions. We dove Crescent Bay and Shaw's Cove and were not disappointed. Thursday and Friday were beautiful -- great vis and lots of life. We saw five large bat rays on the bottom early Thursday and a couple of good sized bugs in the rocks.
Saturday was another story - the surf was rough and everyone said that the surge made for a difficult dive. There were a couple of guys from BC that were all excited about how warm the water was (63 degrees on the surface). We stayed out on Saturday and everyone played on the beach.
Thanks again to everyone for the good advice -- I'm definitely going back.
Saturday was another story - the surf was rough and everyone said that the surge made for a difficult dive. There were a couple of guys from BC that were all excited about how warm the water was (63 degrees on the surface). We stayed out on Saturday and everyone played on the beach.
Thanks again to everyone for the good advice -- I'm definitely going back.
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