No diving, but interesting day at Marineland

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MaxBottomtime

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The water is still too dirty and choppy for diving, but that didn't stop several divers from trying. About a half dozen beach divers entered the sloppy mess at Marineland. Two reported visibility of 10-15 feet, but from the looks of the surface I highly doubt that. I've come out of the water and had a diver report 15-25 feet vis when I saw them underwater and it was less than eight feet. The Body Glove boat, Disappearance was bobbing back and forth on the 120 reef. It's always strange to see such a large vessel diving such a boring spot when Long Point is only 1/4 mile away.
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Two guys in a large private boat jumped into their inflatable and bravely motored in to the cave.
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A very sick sea lion had climbed up the rocks between the cove and cave yesterday, Brian from P.V. Beach, Bike and Kayak told us he called the Marine Mammal Care Center yesterday but they didn't come out. Evil Jeff Shaw called them again. Hopefully they came out today, but there doesn't look as if they can do much. The sea lion was badly dehydrated and likely had organs already shutting down.

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Poor little guy :depressed: Hope (s)he ended up being okay.

I was at Malaga Cove yesterday (4/16) and it sucked. Less than 5ft vis and terrible surface conditions. Glad I just went out there freedive...if I had lugged all my gear I woulda been pissed.
 
Sorry to hear that, Phil... you should have come over to Catalina. I had the best dive in months because the **&*&(* Sargassum is really thinning out and juvenile giant kelp is appearing all over the place (just in time to have its nutrients stolen by phytoplankton season). Fnfalman was here so he can verify.
 
That sea lion looks horribly thin -- I hope it's not one that swallowed some piece of trash that prevented it from eating normally afterwards.
 
Sorry to hear that, Phil... you should have come over to Catalina. I had the best dive in months because the **&*&(* Sargassum is really thinning out and juvenile giant kelp is appearing all over the place (just in time to have its nutrients stolen by phytoplankton season). Fnfalman was here so he can verify.

It was a great day at Casino Point yesterday. Rex and I found a small abalone, maybe 2" to 3" long. I don't know what exact type it is, but refreshing to see it at Casino Point. Baby lobsters, shark eggs, baby horned shark, BIG horned shark at the glass bottom boat, baby turbot, baby pacific torpedo ray, gigantic sheepheads and massive calico basses, many perches at the swim steps.
 

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