scottfiji
Contributor
Date: Jan 02, 2005
Dive Location: Point Dume, Malibu
Dive #1: Point Dume Pinnacles (9:15AM)
Dive #2: Point dume submarine canyon (1:45PM)
Max Depths: 49ft, 85ft
Bottom times: 67min, 49min
Vis: 30-40 feet, awesome!
Current: not too bad
Dive #1 - pinnacles:
Claudette, Carlos, and another Scott met up at my place for their first guided tour to point Dume, and they loved it! We had no rain, easy entry, and of course the water was nice and clear. 20 min or so surface swim in choppy water brought us to the pinnacles, where we dropped down into 25-30 feet of water and unbelievable vis. No runoff here! Crevices, cracks, and caves everywhere. Critters under every pebble. The best dive of the century!
Highlights include numerous large horn sharks, a swelled swell shark, lobster, many large spanish shawl, several cabezons and scorpionfish, many blue-banded and zebra gobies, garibaldi, sheephead, many red-rock shrimp, 3 moray eels, many octopus of unusually large size, a butterfly ray, a large turbot, lots of treefish, painted greenlings, and a couple sunflower stars. 2 cormorants dove past us at around 35ft. Lots of the usual suspects everywhere.
All of us covered about 1/2 the distance underwater coming back, then surface swam the remaining half.
Dive #2 - Canyon
Scott R. had to go home, but Carlos, Claudette, and myself went into the canyon for a second dive in search of elusive boulders, which we never found. Head due south at the cliff, then followed the 75ft contour for a little while east in our fruitless search.
However, we did find lots of detritus, many detritivores, several large sheep crabs, many large spanish shawls, a bat ray, decorator, spider, elbow, and purple globe crabs, a sea lion, schools of topsmelt, several pelagic jell-organisms (either a pelagic heteropod (gastropod) or tunicate - see link below) and a friendly sarcastic fringehead who came out of his hole, layed in my hand for a minute, and let me put him back in his hole. How cool is that?
Thousands of calories were burned during these 2 dives, it was a lot of work! tank-filling interval was spent at Dukes, eating wonderful burgers. Thanks everyone for coming!
Scott
ps - claudette - can you identify our mysterious gelatinous organism?
http://jellieszone.com/commonjellies.htm
Dive Location: Point Dume, Malibu
Dive #1: Point Dume Pinnacles (9:15AM)
Dive #2: Point dume submarine canyon (1:45PM)
Max Depths: 49ft, 85ft
Bottom times: 67min, 49min
Vis: 30-40 feet, awesome!
Current: not too bad
Dive #1 - pinnacles:
Claudette, Carlos, and another Scott met up at my place for their first guided tour to point Dume, and they loved it! We had no rain, easy entry, and of course the water was nice and clear. 20 min or so surface swim in choppy water brought us to the pinnacles, where we dropped down into 25-30 feet of water and unbelievable vis. No runoff here! Crevices, cracks, and caves everywhere. Critters under every pebble. The best dive of the century!
Highlights include numerous large horn sharks, a swelled swell shark, lobster, many large spanish shawl, several cabezons and scorpionfish, many blue-banded and zebra gobies, garibaldi, sheephead, many red-rock shrimp, 3 moray eels, many octopus of unusually large size, a butterfly ray, a large turbot, lots of treefish, painted greenlings, and a couple sunflower stars. 2 cormorants dove past us at around 35ft. Lots of the usual suspects everywhere.
All of us covered about 1/2 the distance underwater coming back, then surface swam the remaining half.
Dive #2 - Canyon
Scott R. had to go home, but Carlos, Claudette, and myself went into the canyon for a second dive in search of elusive boulders, which we never found. Head due south at the cliff, then followed the 75ft contour for a little while east in our fruitless search.
However, we did find lots of detritus, many detritivores, several large sheep crabs, many large spanish shawls, a bat ray, decorator, spider, elbow, and purple globe crabs, a sea lion, schools of topsmelt, several pelagic jell-organisms (either a pelagic heteropod (gastropod) or tunicate - see link below) and a friendly sarcastic fringehead who came out of his hole, layed in my hand for a minute, and let me put him back in his hole. How cool is that?
Thousands of calories were burned during these 2 dives, it was a lot of work! tank-filling interval was spent at Dukes, eating wonderful burgers. Thanks everyone for coming!
Scott
ps - claudette - can you identify our mysterious gelatinous organism?
http://jellieszone.com/commonjellies.htm
