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MaxBottomtime

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We always pick up balloons and other flotsam on the way to our dive site. Sometimes it takes us twice as long to get anywhere, especially after a holiday that involves ballons. Today we found a plastic trash bag filled with other plastic bags, paper, bottles and two syringes. Naturally, the bag ripped when we picked it up. We had to circle the area for several minutes to retrieve as much trash as possible. We didn't prick ourselves with the needles. It was pretty nasty. Fortunately, the diving was much better.
Despite a layer of dinoflagellates creating a dark red wall of no visibility near the surface, the visibility on the reef was a nice twenty feet.
We also found a few more Red Beard sponges. Pictures at Wreckreational Diving - Hep Cat Dives, Well, Hep-C Anyway
 
Gorgeous series! The final shot of the Black Eye Gobi and the Scallop opened up is stunning and that poof-ball Acantodoris lutea looks good enough to eat:D I was going to ask what dive site you were at but a fish eating anemone + Red beard sponges + abundance of nudis & other inverts = White Point Rock.
 
The bag of trash probably came from White Point of Pt. Fermin park. It is Sunday after all. :(
I yelled at a kid throwing trash off the cliff one day. He started crying so I explained to him what the bottom looks like after he does that.
 
The bag of trash probably came from White Point of Pt. Fermin park. It is Sunday after all. :(
I yelled at a kid throwing trash off the cliff one day. He started crying so I explained to him what the bottom looks like after he does that.

Its depressing how many people blindly litter on our beautiful peninsula. Every time I'm on the water kayaking, snorkeling or scuba diving I make sure to gather up what trash I see. For years I never saw anything but the occasional wash up of plastic and a few pieces of random over flow from the trash can at Sacred's but almost overnight the west end has become a wasteland. The east side of the cove surprisingly has stayed clean, I guess all the nude men sunbathing keep the litterers away:w-t-f:
 
Thanks to all that cleanup even a little. Not only does it rub off on others, but we can make at least something of a difference.
 

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