May 2004 Dive Reports

[pasley]

Dive Location:
Date:
Time of DIve:
Dive Time:
Wave Height:
Water Temp:
Visibility:
Nearest Tide:
Notes:

 

[pasley]

Dive Location: Long Point (old Marine Land) Palos Verde Peninsula
Date: 23 May 04
Time of Dive: 8:59
Dive Time: 65:30
Wave Height: 1 Ft
Water Temp: 61 Suunto Degrees below 27 feet, 64 Suunto degrees above that.
Visibility: 10-15
Nearest Tide:: 7:12 AM Low tide 0.0 ft.
Notes: Due to the low tide, we skipped the entry off the point and used the pebbled beach entry. Swam straight out from the rock point jutting out to the east of the pebble beach about 100 yards and dropped down into 38 feet of water. Swam out a little way to a nice rock reef and a bit of kelp. Spotted the usual suspects including a ray, 4 ft angel shark and nice size halibut.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Dive Location: Long Point (old Marine Land) Palos Verde Peninsula
Date: 23 May 04
Time of Dive: 8:59
Dive Time: 65:30
Wave Height: 1 Ft
Water Temp: 61 Suunto Degrees below 27 feet, 64 Suunto degrees above that.
Visibility: 10-15
Nearest Tide:: 7:12 AM Low tide 0.0 ft.
Notes: Due to the low tide, we skipped the entry off the point and used the pebbled beach entry. Swam straight out from the rock point jutting out to the east of the pebble beach about 100 yards and dropped down into 38 feet of water. Swam out a little way to a nice rock reef and a bit of kelp. Spotted the usual suspects including a ray, 4 ft angel shark and nice size halibut.

Wow! I should have gone there instead. I dived in Cabrillo Marina to clean my Bottomliner. Did you ride the Angel Shark?

 

[ChrisM]

Dive Location: San Clemente Island- First Boilers, Second Boilers, Blockhouse
Date: 5/23/04
Time of DIve: full day
Dive Time:
Wave Height: n/a
Water Temp: 59-63
Visibility: 50 ft
Nearest Tide: n/a/
Spent the afternoon at the scuba show then hopped on the Encore for an SBI trip that diverted to SCI. Some swell going overm, not bat.

Surgy conditions above 30 feet, nice down below. Sun never came out, but vis was still in 50 foot range.

Hilite was a giant black sea bass that I pointed out to someone who promptly scared it away. My new rule: never point out anything to anyone again (unless it's a known buddy who I know will not chase). In Coz it happened all the time. From now on, if I see it, it's mine.
Chris

 

[pasley]

Wow! I should have gone there instead. I dived in Cabrillo Marina to clean my Bottomliner. Did you ride the Angel Shark?

My condolences on the loss of your boat, and yes you should have been diving. But as you said on the other forum, you are going to be beach diving for a while so "welcome to my world". I so rarely get to boat dive. But, somewhre out there the is another hole in the ocean (aka boat) just waiting for you to throw money in to it, and then invite me along for the ride.

 

[miket]

Dive Location: San Clemente Island- First Boilers, Second Boilers, Blockhouse
Date: 5/23/04
Time of DIve: full day
Dive Time:
Wave Height: n/a
Water Temp: 59-63
Visibility: 50 ft
Nearest Tide: n/a/
Spent the afternoon at the scuba show then hopped on the Encore for an SBI trip that diverted to SCI. Some swell going overm, not bat.

Surgy conditions above 30 feet, nice down below. Sun never came out, but vis was still in 50 foot range.

Hilite was a giant black sea bass that I pointed out to someone who promptly scared it away. My new rule: never point out anything to anyone again (unless it's a known buddy who I know will not chase). In Coz it happened all the time. From now on, if I see it, it's mine.
Chris

Hello to the board, I have never posted here before.

I was on the Encore on Sunday as well, very fun day of diving. I probably saw the same BSB (but briefly) and, at the same site, my buddy and I saw over 20 Bat Ray's in the same sand area.

One of my highlights was seeing a lobster in the open being attacked by 20+ sheepsheads. They were tearing the poor lobster apart while it tried to swim away. Never seen anything like it before. I shot over 2 hours of video during this trip. Lots to edit now.

Cheers,
MikeT

 

[ChrisM]

Hello to the board, I have never posted here before.

I was on the Encore on Sunday as well, very fun day of diving. I probably saw the same BSB (but briefly) and, at the same site, my buddy and I saw over 20 Bat Ray's in the same sand area.

One of my highlights was seeing a lobster in the open being attacked by 20+ sheepsheads. They were tearing the poor lobster apart while it tried to swim away. Never seen anything like it before. I shot over 2 hours of video during this trip. Lots to edit now.

Cheers,
MikeT

Hey Mike - I was the one shooting the Oly with two strobes (you caught me at the end shooting kelp, and while watching it I mentioned "hey, that's me! )

You guys should check out Mike's digital rig - it's a hoot (and takes great video, well, Mike does - that video of the lobster getting gang eaten was wild)

Chris

 

[OCdiving Deb]

Hello to the board, I have never posted here before.
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MikeT

Hi MikeT!

Welcome to ScubaBoard! We don't bite as badly as those sheephead. I look forward to your participation!

Deb

 

[So Cal Divin]

Dive Location: San Diego, Yukon on the Lois Ann
Date: 5-23-04
Time of DIve: 1:10 pm
Dive Time: 32 min.
Wave Height: 6-8' SWELL
Water Temp: 61 Suunto deg. to 50'. 52 deg. below too 100'
Visibility: 40-50'
Max Depth: 104' average 71'
Notes:
Boat was late and no Nitrox. But there were only 6 divers on the boat. Sweet. And Capt. Woody and Gwendolyn were great !
It was all our first time on the Yukon. First dive was awesome no surge no current from 15-100' in 6-8' rockin seas. And vis 40-50' was awesome from 60-100+ depth.
Second dive with my Oly 5050 w/ pt-015. Left in Auto the first dive. Turned off the flash and took some video on the second dive.
My New 7mm semi dry kept me comfy. Also Spring straps http://www3.sympatico.ca/chatterton/springstraps.html worked excellent on a rockin boat, Thanks Boogie my dive buddy will be sending ya an order. Everyone was sitting while I was standing at the gate.
Dive buddy 1 got sea sick on the SI and sat it out.
Dive 2 was short but still awesome. Swam threw huge structure mid ship. From starboard about 75'fsw to the sandy bottom at 100'fsw. Awesome. Dive buddy 2 got cold so we cut it short. He's a russian kid w/ 7mm jacket & f.john. Funny thing is I'm normally the one who gets cold, Not no more.
Will definately be doing that again.
On the Lois Ann with Woody and Gwen!

Sea ya. Jeff

 

[ScubaJello]

I was out on a beach dive in Malibu near Pepperdine University this past Saturday morning around 8am. We ended up calling off the dive since the viz was so bad that I couldn't see my buddy from arms length. My buddy felt bad for me since it was my first beach dive. I wasn't until as we were a taking gear off I saw three Dolphins swim past the area we were in.

---Eddie