jetfixer
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JDog:
what a way to end a great dive! Thanks Ann Marie, JDog and Jan for a memorable dive!
May 05 Dive Reports
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what a way to end a great dive! Thanks Ann Marie, JDog and Jan for a memorable dive!
San Miguel was a dream with the wind and swell, so we went to Santa Rosa.
Arnaud was my buddy for the first three dives, Jim (Chicago guy) was my bud on the 4th.
I housed up Jaye's little Sony P&S (as I wait for my D70 rig to come in) and took it down today. Fun little cam.
20 of us on the Peace - about the right number. That boat gets crowded when its full. What a gorgeous day we had.
On dive 2 we were coming back, and Arnaud pointed to some huge gray thing in the water, on the bottom. I was about 15 feet or more from the bottom, and I though it was the anchor... until it moved.
It was a hugeazz bat ray. When I got closer, I could see it was munching on something. I got even closer, and saw it was munching on a fish carcas. I believe it was one of the fish one of the Hunters on the Peace had cleaned and tossed overboard.
We're going to talk about this more later - cleaning fish while there are divers still in the water is just rude. It could also be dangerous. More on that later.
But it did provide a cool photo op - even if my skills / the little cam weren't up to the task.
The Scallop Dinner pic - that scallop was about the size of a dinner plate. That star was HUGE...
PIX here
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Ken
Arnaud was my buddy for the first three dives, Jim (Chicago guy) was my bud on the 4th.
I housed up Jaye's little Sony P&S (as I wait for my D70 rig to come in) and took it down today. Fun little cam.
20 of us on the Peace - about the right number. That boat gets crowded when its full. What a gorgeous day we had.
On dive 2 we were coming back, and Arnaud pointed to some huge gray thing in the water, on the bottom. I was about 15 feet or more from the bottom, and I though it was the anchor... until it moved.
It was a hugeazz bat ray. When I got closer, I could see it was munching on something. I got even closer, and saw it was munching on a fish carcas. I believe it was one of the fish one of the Hunters on the Peace had cleaned and tossed overboard.
We're going to talk about this more later - cleaning fish while there are divers still in the water is just rude. It could also be dangerous. More on that later.
But it did provide a cool photo op - even if my skills / the little cam weren't up to the task.
The Scallop Dinner pic - that scallop was about the size of a dinner plate. That star was HUGE...
PIX here
---
Ken
Will update this later after I download the computer but the diving was really nice today here in San Diego. Ya had to get below the muck layer but when you did it was a wonderful dive.
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ShakaZulu
Contributor
Date: 5/14/05
Dive Location: La Jolla Shores - Buoy B
Time: 12:28pm
Bottom Time: 21ft
Max Depth: 135ft
Vis: 25ft to 30ft
Wave height: 1-2ft
Temp at depth: 50 degrees
Surface Temp: ?
Tide information: ?
Comments: This day was also the annual Dive Animals picnic, and we signed up for a Zodiac dive at Buoy B with Dan piloting the boat. Not having a depth gauge, we dropped anchor at the buoy. Buddied up with Simon, and off we went. Hit the deck at 65 ft and cruised north. Found the wall and descended down. Amazing structure, I really like this dive site. Very colorful California coral, and lots of rockfish chilling. I think they were all narked. Ran out of bottom time, and ascended doing our open water stops. Awesome dive.......now can someone return my weight belt that I left on the boat??
Date: 5/14/05
Dive Location: La Jolla Shores - North Wall
Time: 4:19pm
Bottom Time: 33ft
Max Depth: 105ft
Vis: 25ft to 30ft
Wave height: 1-2ft
Temp at depth: 48 degrees
Surface Temp: ?
Tide information: ?
Comments: Uncle Sean led the crew out to the North Wall. This is a long surface swim and it takes forever for the line-ups to appear in the right position. Finally arrived, buddied up with Christian and Peter (three buddies, this so rarely works, anyway). Dropped down in about 80ft water and started to explore the wall. The vis was great and the structure was amazing. Saw a huge crab in a hole that was way to small for him. Have no idea how he got in there. Along the wall we came across areas of silt out, must have been some Padi divers before us or maybe rays. Crossed over the Peninsula, had a quick look at the far north wall and headed back. I don't like those long swims over the abyss and I turned on the heat. Every time I checked back, I thought my dive buddy was having a great time from the smile on his face, turns out that those weren't smiles. Lost one but in the end we all made it back in one piece. Great dive.
Dive Location: La Jolla Shores - Buoy B
Time: 12:28pm
Bottom Time: 21ft
Max Depth: 135ft
Vis: 25ft to 30ft
Wave height: 1-2ft
Temp at depth: 50 degrees
Surface Temp: ?
Tide information: ?
Comments: This day was also the annual Dive Animals picnic, and we signed up for a Zodiac dive at Buoy B with Dan piloting the boat. Not having a depth gauge, we dropped anchor at the buoy. Buddied up with Simon, and off we went. Hit the deck at 65 ft and cruised north. Found the wall and descended down. Amazing structure, I really like this dive site. Very colorful California coral, and lots of rockfish chilling. I think they were all narked. Ran out of bottom time, and ascended doing our open water stops. Awesome dive.......now can someone return my weight belt that I left on the boat??
Date: 5/14/05
Dive Location: La Jolla Shores - North Wall
Time: 4:19pm
Bottom Time: 33ft
Max Depth: 105ft
Vis: 25ft to 30ft
Wave height: 1-2ft
Temp at depth: 48 degrees
Surface Temp: ?
Tide information: ?
Comments: Uncle Sean led the crew out to the North Wall. This is a long surface swim and it takes forever for the line-ups to appear in the right position. Finally arrived, buddied up with Christian and Peter (three buddies, this so rarely works, anyway). Dropped down in about 80ft water and started to explore the wall. The vis was great and the structure was amazing. Saw a huge crab in a hole that was way to small for him. Have no idea how he got in there. Along the wall we came across areas of silt out, must have been some Padi divers before us or maybe rays. Crossed over the Peninsula, had a quick look at the far north wall and headed back. I don't like those long swims over the abyss and I turned on the heat. Every time I checked back, I thought my dive buddy was having a great time from the smile on his face, turns out that those weren't smiles. Lost one but in the end we all made it back in one piece. Great dive.
pasley:
Can you also include Gas Mix?
ScubaSeanMaui
Contributor
Nice report Roy! That school of Vermillion Rockfish was truly amazing. I saw a DFG tagged fish down there who was very curious about me. They were lying on rocks as well as casually swimming around their 'hood. The vis was really nice. I'm really happy you and Simon got to see the same structure we did. Defintiely a top 10 of diving for me! (Funny the last Buoy B has to be a top 10 too) We'll have to get another Zodiac out there with some bigger tanks so we can stay longer!
Reeveseye
Contributor
Date: 05-13-05
Dive Location: Casino Point
Time: 4:33pm
Bottom Time: 0:57
Max Depth: 51
Vis: 20
Wave height:: n/a
Temp at depth: 62
Surface Temp: 65
Tide information: rising to +6 at about 6:00pm
Comments:
Today was the final session of our NAUI Advanced course, which we started almost a year ago (it kept getting put on hold due to scheduling conflicts and uncooperative winter weather). My wife Diane and I went to Catalina on the 2:00pm boat with our instructor Mark and Kevin, one of his other students. Since the night dive was all we had left to do, the first dive wasn't really part of the class, with the assignment nothing more than to see how long we could make our tanks last.
We saw a lot of good life on this dive. A large school of mackerel was right in front of the stairs, twisting a path past us as we headed for the buoys. We descended, passed the Cousteau plaque, and headed east along Little Casino Reef. All the usual fish, with large amounts of kelp bass, sheephead, blacksmith senoritas, etc. Lots of garibaldi nests, with the fish starting to get more aggressive when you get close. We saw an octopus half out of its crevice, although it quickly pulled back in once it saw us coming. A lingcod was resting on the rocks, and stayed still for some pictures. Di found a small moray eel peeking out from the rocks. I saw several kelp rockfish - more than I usually see there. Lots of treefish in their crevices, including one who was sharing his with a small lobster. Di also found a small memorial plaque about 3" wide attached to a weight mounted on the reef, made of some type of thick clear plastic with etching inside. It was dedicated to Adele Woods, who died sometime last year. The plaque looked like it had been there several months, judging by the encrustation. Although we Googled her name on the internet the next day, we could find no mention of who she was online.
As we headed back towards the stairs, we saw a barred sand bass about 2' long swim past us. We then came across a small C-O turbot who was chomping on a small strand of kelp. Since they're carnivorous, he must have seen some small critter crawling on it. As we swam in, we noticed that the buoy mounted on its own near the Cousteau plaque is now gone, leaving only the two directly out from the stairs (one of which was recently replaced with a life ring from the Scuba Cat dive boat). The tide was high, and there were a lot of fish in the 5' shallows directly in front of the stairs. We bobbed around on the surface for a few minutes, sort of snorkeling with the remaining air in our tanks. Some baby garibaldi were darting around in front of me, but their rapid movements combined with the surge pushing us around made it pointless to try for pictures. The water was halfway up the stairs, making for a nice easy exit. We had dinner during the long surface interval as we waited for our night dive.
Date: 05-13-05
Dive Location: Casino Point
Time: 7:54pm
Bottom Time: 0:35
Max Depth: 34
Vis: 15
Wave height:: n/a
Temp at depth: 63
Surface Temp: 65
Tide information: falling from +6 at about 6:00pm
Comments:
Our night dive was the last requirement for our advanced course. Although it was an interesting dive, it was also very disorienting. I've made a lot of dives at Casio Point, and I usually know exactly where I am by just looking at my surroundings. Tonight was different, though. Visibility hadn't been great before, and now it was down to 15' at best. Occasionally we'd come across some landmark or rock formation I recognized, but my sense of exact location usually didn't last long. The best I could accomplish was knowing we were headed either east or west, and keeping track of our general depth. That wasn't tough, since we seldom went deeper than 30'.
Lots of the usual daytime fish were more scarce or completely absent. Fewer garibaldi and kelp bass, and almost no sheephead to be found. The treefish who normally hide in the rocks all day apparently come out to lounge in plain sight on the bottom. I saw so many of them that I stopped counting. We saw a large sheep crab scuttling around on the bottom, waving its pincers and generally looking disgusting. I think I saw another lingcod or cabezon, but I couldn't get close enough to say for sure. Lobsters were everywhere, walking around with the fearlessness of creatures who know they're in a protected area.
We headed past the pier pilings, where I saw a lot of blacksmith huddled beneath them for the night. I got a quick glimpse of an octopus as it darted under some kelp. A few scorpionfish were swimming around as well. Di got badly tangled in some kelp that wrapped around her regulator's first stage, and it took me a minute to extract her. We had to swim quickly to catch up with Mark and Kevin, who were ahead of us about 10' deeper. Di saw a small bat ray as we neared the stairs, but I missed it.
We couldn't dive for more than 35-40 minutes, since we had to get back to the landing to catch the 2145 ferry home. Mark and Kevin were meeting up with some other students the next day who still had part of the course to finish, so they were spending the night on the island. We left our tanks with them and headed home. It was a good feeling to know we finally completed the course, but an even better one to get into bed and go to sleep when we finally got home.
Dive Location: Casino Point
Time: 4:33pm
Bottom Time: 0:57
Max Depth: 51
Vis: 20
Wave height:: n/a
Temp at depth: 62
Surface Temp: 65
Tide information: rising to +6 at about 6:00pm
Comments:
Today was the final session of our NAUI Advanced course, which we started almost a year ago (it kept getting put on hold due to scheduling conflicts and uncooperative winter weather). My wife Diane and I went to Catalina on the 2:00pm boat with our instructor Mark and Kevin, one of his other students. Since the night dive was all we had left to do, the first dive wasn't really part of the class, with the assignment nothing more than to see how long we could make our tanks last.
We saw a lot of good life on this dive. A large school of mackerel was right in front of the stairs, twisting a path past us as we headed for the buoys. We descended, passed the Cousteau plaque, and headed east along Little Casino Reef. All the usual fish, with large amounts of kelp bass, sheephead, blacksmith senoritas, etc. Lots of garibaldi nests, with the fish starting to get more aggressive when you get close. We saw an octopus half out of its crevice, although it quickly pulled back in once it saw us coming. A lingcod was resting on the rocks, and stayed still for some pictures. Di found a small moray eel peeking out from the rocks. I saw several kelp rockfish - more than I usually see there. Lots of treefish in their crevices, including one who was sharing his with a small lobster. Di also found a small memorial plaque about 3" wide attached to a weight mounted on the reef, made of some type of thick clear plastic with etching inside. It was dedicated to Adele Woods, who died sometime last year. The plaque looked like it had been there several months, judging by the encrustation. Although we Googled her name on the internet the next day, we could find no mention of who she was online.
As we headed back towards the stairs, we saw a barred sand bass about 2' long swim past us. We then came across a small C-O turbot who was chomping on a small strand of kelp. Since they're carnivorous, he must have seen some small critter crawling on it. As we swam in, we noticed that the buoy mounted on its own near the Cousteau plaque is now gone, leaving only the two directly out from the stairs (one of which was recently replaced with a life ring from the Scuba Cat dive boat). The tide was high, and there were a lot of fish in the 5' shallows directly in front of the stairs. We bobbed around on the surface for a few minutes, sort of snorkeling with the remaining air in our tanks. Some baby garibaldi were darting around in front of me, but their rapid movements combined with the surge pushing us around made it pointless to try for pictures. The water was halfway up the stairs, making for a nice easy exit. We had dinner during the long surface interval as we waited for our night dive.
Date: 05-13-05
Dive Location: Casino Point
Time: 7:54pm
Bottom Time: 0:35
Max Depth: 34
Vis: 15
Wave height:: n/a
Temp at depth: 63
Surface Temp: 65
Tide information: falling from +6 at about 6:00pm
Comments:
Our night dive was the last requirement for our advanced course. Although it was an interesting dive, it was also very disorienting. I've made a lot of dives at Casio Point, and I usually know exactly where I am by just looking at my surroundings. Tonight was different, though. Visibility hadn't been great before, and now it was down to 15' at best. Occasionally we'd come across some landmark or rock formation I recognized, but my sense of exact location usually didn't last long. The best I could accomplish was knowing we were headed either east or west, and keeping track of our general depth. That wasn't tough, since we seldom went deeper than 30'.
Lots of the usual daytime fish were more scarce or completely absent. Fewer garibaldi and kelp bass, and almost no sheephead to be found. The treefish who normally hide in the rocks all day apparently come out to lounge in plain sight on the bottom. I saw so many of them that I stopped counting. We saw a large sheep crab scuttling around on the bottom, waving its pincers and generally looking disgusting. I think I saw another lingcod or cabezon, but I couldn't get close enough to say for sure. Lobsters were everywhere, walking around with the fearlessness of creatures who know they're in a protected area.
We headed past the pier pilings, where I saw a lot of blacksmith huddled beneath them for the night. I got a quick glimpse of an octopus as it darted under some kelp. A few scorpionfish were swimming around as well. Di got badly tangled in some kelp that wrapped around her regulator's first stage, and it took me a minute to extract her. We had to swim quickly to catch up with Mark and Kevin, who were ahead of us about 10' deeper. Di saw a small bat ray as we neared the stairs, but I missed it.
We couldn't dive for more than 35-40 minutes, since we had to get back to the landing to catch the 2145 ferry home. Mark and Kevin were meeting up with some other students the next day who still had part of the course to finish, so they were spending the night on the island. We left our tanks with them and headed home. It was a good feeling to know we finally completed the course, but an even better one to get into bed and go to sleep when we finally got home.
scottfiji
Contributor
IceDiverInCA:
Good suggestion Icediver!
Most divers here use EAN 21 at depth, and also for deco gas. In the interest of space, I suggest that is default, usless otherwise specified. Most of us already the gas mix data when it is different than the default.
Scott
Date: 5/15/05
Dive Location:Jenny Lynne wreck
Time: 9:00
Bottom Time: 12 minutes
Max Depth: 130'
Vis: Maybe one foot
Wave height: 3-4
Temp at depth: 50F
Surface Temp: 57F
Tide information:
Comments: I dropped down first to try for some pictures before my buddies joined me and stirred up the silt. No worries! When I hit the anchor the vis was near zero and no wreck in sight. I tied off my reel and made one sweep, but due to the poor vis, I gave up. I met with my buddies after I left the bottom, but they decided to look around. They eventually found the wreck, but it wouldn't have made for good photography today. We then headed for some long concrete pipes Ross-O found last year off Pt. Fermin.
Date: 5/15/05
Dive Location: Pipes
Time: 11:21
Bottom Time: 40 minutes
Max Depth: 133'
Vis: 20 feet
Wave height: 3-4
Temp at depth: 50F
Surface Temp: 57F
Tide information:
Comments: Much nicer! We found the pipes layed out end to end for about 150 feet. Thet are ten feet diameter concrete pipes covered by as much beauty as Southern California waters can offer. I wish I would have taken my camera here. Red Gorgonian covers the outer surface of the pipes, with Tritona Festiva nudibranchs everywhere. Sponges, scallops, a few metridiums and several large Cabezon covered the rest. We swam through the entire length. How could anyone resist doing that?
We then swam over the top back to our strating poing before ascending. The upper fifty feet of water was filled with jellies today, which always make any deco obligation fun for me. Ross didn't enjoy that as much, as he received a little sting between his mask and hood. One of the jellies was a small, 3" egg yolk jelly. I'd never seen one that small, so that added to the fun.
Dive Location:Jenny Lynne wreck
Time: 9:00
Bottom Time: 12 minutes
Max Depth: 130'
Vis: Maybe one foot
Wave height: 3-4
Temp at depth: 50F
Surface Temp: 57F
Tide information:
Comments: I dropped down first to try for some pictures before my buddies joined me and stirred up the silt. No worries! When I hit the anchor the vis was near zero and no wreck in sight. I tied off my reel and made one sweep, but due to the poor vis, I gave up. I met with my buddies after I left the bottom, but they decided to look around. They eventually found the wreck, but it wouldn't have made for good photography today. We then headed for some long concrete pipes Ross-O found last year off Pt. Fermin.
Date: 5/15/05
Dive Location: Pipes
Time: 11:21
Bottom Time: 40 minutes
Max Depth: 133'
Vis: 20 feet
Wave height: 3-4
Temp at depth: 50F
Surface Temp: 57F
Tide information:
Comments: Much nicer! We found the pipes layed out end to end for about 150 feet. Thet are ten feet diameter concrete pipes covered by as much beauty as Southern California waters can offer. I wish I would have taken my camera here. Red Gorgonian covers the outer surface of the pipes, with Tritona Festiva nudibranchs everywhere. Sponges, scallops, a few metridiums and several large Cabezon covered the rest. We swam through the entire length. How could anyone resist doing that?
We then swam over the top back to our strating poing before ascending. The upper fifty feet of water was filled with jellies today, which always make any deco obligation fun for me. Ross didn't enjoy that as much, as he received a little sting between his mask and hood. One of the jellies was a small, 3" egg yolk jelly. I'd never seen one that small, so that added to the fun.
Frank O
Contributor
Actually, I assumed y'all'd assume I'd be on 32%, unless otherwise noted ... :martian:scottfiji:
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