Monastery In Monterey

[Ben_ca]

Originally Posted by cyklon_300 View Post
as a rank newbie...we were on a road trip from OR and stopped by a LDS who invited us to join them there for a class dive.

Gorgeous sunny day, but I got Maytagged in the surf and lost mask, snorkle, and a fin. The gravel sanded my face down to hamburger...neither me nor my buddy (a very experienced diver) got down.

I don't think anyone from the class made it in either...I've always wanted to go back and see what I missed.

Sorry to hear you had some difficulty at Monastery. Here's a short clip of a larger video of diving at Monastery. This is not to promote diving in the shown conditions, but a demo of what to do and not do. This is not the complete video and is missing a lot of scenes and voiceovers. The final product will be a 20 minute video that should be finished this year sometime.

YouTube - Monastery Beach Dive Video Preview

Doc seeing that the guy posted this back in 2002 hopefully he has come again and maybe made it in this time...

I did hear about a group of new guys roadtripping from OR that got tossed recently...

I think they're okey.

Talk about a time capsule. I think we have more recent threads about Monastery... maybe we can let this one die out.