AndrewJD
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Doc Wong Pt Lobos Scootering Video
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but I'll wait on it. Have to do a refresher course for it since I haven't used a DPV for a long time.
Dr Bill, when are you coming up this way?
I'll let you tag along on one of my boats. My inflatable is rather nice for Point Lobos.
The topside of Point Lobos is beautiful, too. The ride back in is simply fabulous. I've had more than a few people comment on that when riding back in on my inflatable.
I'll let you tag along on one of my boats. My inflatable is rather nice for Point Lobos.
The topside of Point Lobos is beautiful, too. The ride back in is simply fabulous. I've had more than a few people comment on that when riding back in on my inflatable.
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Eric Sedletzky
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Cool video Doc!
Scooters wouldn't really work too well up where I dive. We have to do a lot of hiking to get to our sites and it would be too much extra stuff to carry. That's why we tend to streamline our gear and get rid of as much stuff as we can that we really don't need. Plus I do a lot of hunting and gathering, and when I'm not doing that I'm poking around with my macro camera set up, so a scooter would just get in the way.
One exception would be Gerstle Cove where you can back your vehicle down a steep road almost to the beach to unload gear. The entry area is rocky and can be slippery but if you take your time and watch where you put your feet it's not bad. The surface swim out of the cove is long and I could see a scooter being a bonus for that, but then the vis is generally poor so flying around out around the pinnacles could be tricky if you can't see that well.
The other thing to do would be to use the scooter as surface transportation and once out of the cove anchor it and put an inflated smb on it so you could see it from a distance when you come up.
Most of us just use a kayak for this type of diving though and you can get a kayak with everything for under $1000. Not only that a kayak gives you range. Sometimes we will travel several coves away from our original entry point.
Scooters wouldn't really work too well up where I dive. We have to do a lot of hiking to get to our sites and it would be too much extra stuff to carry. That's why we tend to streamline our gear and get rid of as much stuff as we can that we really don't need. Plus I do a lot of hunting and gathering, and when I'm not doing that I'm poking around with my macro camera set up, so a scooter would just get in the way.
One exception would be Gerstle Cove where you can back your vehicle down a steep road almost to the beach to unload gear. The entry area is rocky and can be slippery but if you take your time and watch where you put your feet it's not bad. The surface swim out of the cove is long and I could see a scooter being a bonus for that, but then the vis is generally poor so flying around out around the pinnacles could be tricky if you can't see that well.
The other thing to do would be to use the scooter as surface transportation and once out of the cove anchor it and put an inflated smb on it so you could see it from a distance when you come up.
Most of us just use a kayak for this type of diving though and you can get a kayak with everything for under $1000. Not only that a kayak gives you range. Sometimes we will travel several coves away from our original entry point.
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Thanks Phil, your scuba service has always helped me achieve my scuba goals too!!! I'll have to come down your way when you guys do a scuba trip, perhaps when you're in Key Largo again or other places in Florida.
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I can definitely see diving the Northern California coastline (Mendicino, Humbolt, etc) you need to have only what you need. Hiking down hillsides, rocks, ledges with rough rock entrys is not very conducive to lots of gear.
Last time I dove up there I was in a plastic backplate by Scuba Pro, single tank with a "J" valve, weight belt, Scuba Pro Jet fins, round mask and a 7 mil wetsuit. That was all. BCs or wings were not yet invented. Limited, but it made for light rig and allowed me to do those "waves crashing on the rocks exits".
Honestly I don't know how I did it, but it was routine. I and everyone else would come in, wait for a big wave to crash over a rock, ride THAT wave in and let it land you on top of the rosk and that was how we routinely got out.
You guys still do that? I wouldn't even think of that now, seem hairball to me now.
I think I've been spoiled rotten and gotten soft!
Last time I dove up there I was in a plastic backplate by Scuba Pro, single tank with a "J" valve, weight belt, Scuba Pro Jet fins, round mask and a 7 mil wetsuit. That was all. BCs or wings were not yet invented. Limited, but it made for light rig and allowed me to do those "waves crashing on the rocks exits".
Honestly I don't know how I did it, but it was routine. I and everyone else would come in, wait for a big wave to crash over a rock, ride THAT wave in and let it land you on top of the rosk and that was how we routinely got out.
You guys still do that? I wouldn't even think of that now, seem hairball to me now.
I think I've been spoiled rotten and gotten soft!
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