Need a Dive Spot......

[danbee]

I have a boat in Long Beach Marina and I'm taking some buddies out with thier instructor to get thier boat/deep dive certifications. Is there any good dive spots for this outside the breakwater or in the surrounding area?

Thanks for your input.

Dan

 

[fnfalman]

The Olympic wreck? It's not super deep but deep enough to consider a deep dive. 90-something feet at depth if memory serves.

 

[FrankPro1]

The Olympic wreck? It's not super deep but deep enough to consider a deep dive. 90-something feet at depth if memory serves.

Some info on the wreck:

California Diving News - Dive Spots - Wreck of the Olympic II

Olympic II

 

[Scuba_Steven]

San Clemente Island is great but it is a little long of a boat ride. Great kelp diving and some awesome wall dives there for that deep dive certification you were talking about. You just need to find the walls which can be tricky since they are not officially marked.

 

[danbee]

Thanks for the info anyone know anything about the Patriot Wreck?

 

[MaxBottomtime]

There are a lot of wrecks and reefs outside the Long Beach breakwall, including the Ace1, African Queen, Caissons, Fog wreck, FS Loop, Gambler, Georgia Strait, Moody, Olympic II, Radio Tower, Ross-O Reef, IZORs reef and the Johanna Smith, among many others known and unknown. Marine supply stores have books and charts that list many of these with coordinates. Depths of the local wrecks range from 75 feet at the wrecks less than a mile from the breakwalls to 160' at the Caissons.

Cruising over the Caissons

Wolfeel on the Fog wreck

Radio Tower

Ross-O Reef

 

[danbee]

Great thanks for the info

 

[Empty V]

They only need to get down to 60fsw to complete the cert right? If that's the case I wouldn't sweat a super long trek, you could even go out to PV right? FYI San Clemente is about twice the distance from Long Beach as it is to Catalina.

Billy