ScubaSeanMaui
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Otter:
I was just making a request, perhaps the ignore feature would be less of a hassle. I should have thought of that in the beginning.
Thanks,
October 04 Dive Reports
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I was just making a request, perhaps the ignore feature would be less of a hassle. I should have thought of that in the beginning.
Thanks,
sapphire
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divinman:There's an ignore function???? Where??? There are hundreds of folks I would like to ignore
Well, maybe just three or four....maybe
TS
It is in the same place as your Buddy List - you can enter names of people you want to "Ignore" and then their posts will appear empty to you...
jennifer
ShakaZulu
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Hey, stop hi-jacking this thread..............this is for Dive Reports only.
sessions
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...Yeah...if you all cant play nice in the sand box....you'll have to go to bed w/out dinner!..(The lobster that we ripped thShakaZulu:
eir heads off)
whalerkyle
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........lol.......sessions:...Yeah...if you all cant play nice in the sand box....you'll have to go to bed w/out dinner!..(The lobster that we ripped th
Oct. 7, 22:00
Dana Point, Some reef that I almost ran my keel into.
Max depth - 44'
Lowest temp, 64
Length, 71 minutes
Vis. about 10'
Lot's and Lots of life here. Even watched an octupus for a while, that was cool, and we saw two huge crabs fighting each other.
Fun dive, can't wait until tonight.
Oh yeah, and 4 bugs ended up in my goodie bag.
Kyle
Date: 08 Oct 04
Dive Location: Deadmans Reef Crescent Bay, Laguna Beach
Time: 1:16 PM
Bottom Time: 41:20
Max Depth: 83 FSW
Vis: 15-20 or so
Wave height:2-4 Feet
Temp at depth:66 Suunto degrees
Surface Temp:68 Suunto degrees
Tide information: LOW: 12:48 PM 2.9 feet HIGH 6:20 PM 4.8 feet
Comments:
Headhunter and I met up at Crescent Bay for an afternoon dive. Visibility was defiantly down from Monday with lots of sand in the water. The beach is showing quite a bit of erosion too. The West end, where the waves are normally smallest had some of the larger waves. But as the 2-4 foot waves (with ocasional larger sets)were comming in well defined sets with 1 minute lulls between, Headhunter elected to do the dive.
We did a surface swim all the way out to Deadmans reef and evidently a good ways past (estimate about 1/3 again too far). I failed to hole my line tight against the edge of the cliff and reef coming out from shore and then we took a pause before the dive allowing the flag pole to drift from the east edge of Seal Rock to the center of Seal Rock. It looked like we were a bit too far, but with the haze and the water who can be sure. So we dropped down into 83 feet of water. :11: Definitely out too far for the reef which lies in 40-60 feet of water. (note, nothing there but sand, and a traffic cone) So after checking that all was ok, we swam due North back to the reef and ascended to 60 feet as we did so. The bottom rose up nicely and we soon found our selves back at the reef. Since we had kicked against a good current to get back to the reef, I elected to proceed immediately through to the inside of the reef while we were still fresh. Once inside the reef, we swam a bit to the east, but soon turned back to the west due to our air consumption. Followed the reef back towards Seal Rock, then turned due North again and headed for shore. Hit some very large rocks all on their own but still in the reef debris field that connects Seal Rock to Deadmans Reef. Swam back to where we entered at and surfaced in 8 feet of water. In spite of my misleading the start of the dive, it was still a good dive as we saw clouds of fish. Unfortunatly due to the current (had to fight it all the way back to shore) we were unable to spend my noramly leisure time on the reef and more or less kept swimming the entire dive. Swell in 20 feet or less was a good 6 feet or more of gentle rockking to and fro. Sorry Headhunter, it is not my normal style to rush a dive like that.
On exiting the surf we were greeted by RobertPhillips who was working in the area and noticed my car and came down to see us. Dive followed by lunch at Cocos in Newport Beach and a good was had by all. Thanks for the dive Headhunter.
Dive Location: Deadmans Reef Crescent Bay, Laguna Beach
Time: 1:16 PM
Bottom Time: 41:20
Max Depth: 83 FSW
Vis: 15-20 or so
Wave height:2-4 Feet
Temp at depth:66 Suunto degrees
Surface Temp:68 Suunto degrees
Tide information: LOW: 12:48 PM 2.9 feet HIGH 6:20 PM 4.8 feet
Comments:
Headhunter and I met up at Crescent Bay for an afternoon dive. Visibility was defiantly down from Monday with lots of sand in the water. The beach is showing quite a bit of erosion too. The West end, where the waves are normally smallest had some of the larger waves. But as the 2-4 foot waves (with ocasional larger sets)were comming in well defined sets with 1 minute lulls between, Headhunter elected to do the dive.
We did a surface swim all the way out to Deadmans reef and evidently a good ways past (estimate about 1/3 again too far). I failed to hole my line tight against the edge of the cliff and reef coming out from shore and then we took a pause before the dive allowing the flag pole to drift from the east edge of Seal Rock to the center of Seal Rock. It looked like we were a bit too far, but with the haze and the water who can be sure. So we dropped down into 83 feet of water. :11: Definitely out too far for the reef which lies in 40-60 feet of water. (note, nothing there but sand, and a traffic cone) So after checking that all was ok, we swam due North back to the reef and ascended to 60 feet as we did so. The bottom rose up nicely and we soon found our selves back at the reef. Since we had kicked against a good current to get back to the reef, I elected to proceed immediately through to the inside of the reef while we were still fresh. Once inside the reef, we swam a bit to the east, but soon turned back to the west due to our air consumption. Followed the reef back towards Seal Rock, then turned due North again and headed for shore. Hit some very large rocks all on their own but still in the reef debris field that connects Seal Rock to Deadmans Reef. Swam back to where we entered at and surfaced in 8 feet of water. In spite of my misleading the start of the dive, it was still a good dive as we saw clouds of fish. Unfortunatly due to the current (had to fight it all the way back to shore) we were unable to spend my noramly leisure time on the reef and more or less kept swimming the entire dive. Swell in 20 feet or less was a good 6 feet or more of gentle rockking to and fro. Sorry Headhunter, it is not my normal style to rush a dive like that.
On exiting the surf we were greeted by RobertPhillips who was working in the area and noticed my car and came down to see us. Dive followed by lunch at Cocos in Newport Beach and a good was had by all. Thanks for the dive Headhunter.
Date: 10-06-04
Dive Location: Redondo Breakwater
Time: 8pm
Bottom Time: 74 minutes
Max Depth: 29
Vis: 15+
Wave height: -1
Temp at depth: not bad
Surface Temp: 65
Tide information: N/A
Comments:
Again no lobsters bagged (Im going back to boar hunting), but had a great time, got caught on a fishing line towards the end of the dive. This site is full of marine life, making it a place of interest, just a bit hazardous.
I agree it was a bit uncomfortable to see. Bill Holzer from Dive n Surf suggested it was "molting". I then did some further research on lobster molting and found the following links that might explain what we saw.
Next week Ill try to dive the site during the day.
Thanks, Bill Holzer
http://www.crewdog.net/lobsterpage/lobstrs/molt.html
http://www.lobsters.org/tlcbio/biology3.html
ICE
Dive Location: Redondo Breakwater
Time: 8pm
Bottom Time: 74 minutes
Max Depth: 29
Vis: 15+
Wave height: -1
Temp at depth: not bad
Surface Temp: 65
Tide information: N/A
Comments:
Again no lobsters bagged (Im going back to boar hunting), but had a great time, got caught on a fishing line towards the end of the dive. This site is full of marine life, making it a place of interest, just a bit hazardous.
wrinkles:
I agree it was a bit uncomfortable to see. Bill Holzer from Dive n Surf suggested it was "molting". I then did some further research on lobster molting and found the following links that might explain what we saw.
Next week Ill try to dive the site during the day.
Thanks, Bill Holzer
http://www.crewdog.net/lobsterpage/lobstrs/molt.html
http://www.lobsters.org/tlcbio/biology3.html
ICE
Date: 10/2/04
Dive Location: Malaga Cove
Dive 1
Time: 12:40 am
Bottom Time: 67
Max Depth: 19
Vis: up to 25
Wave height: -1
Temp at depth: N/A
Surface Temp: 65
Tide information: N/A
Dive 2
Time: 4:00 am
Bottom Time: 57
Max Depth: 16
Vis: up to 3-7
Wave height: -1
Temp at depth: cooold
Surface Temp: 55
Tide information: N/A
Comments:
Opening night, I was able to catch over a dozen, but non were legal sized. I think my scale is off, regardless the dive was very beautiful. Now the climb back up road thats another I suggest being in shape.
DFG was out there; one of the divers in our group got caught with an almost legal.
I want to apologize to Wrinkles for getting her home past 8am, will not happen again.
Check out the picture, Wrinkles doesnt look bad after being up for 24 hours.
ICE
Dive Location: Malaga Cove
Dive 1
Time: 12:40 am
Bottom Time: 67
Max Depth: 19
Vis: up to 25
Wave height: -1
Temp at depth: N/A
Surface Temp: 65
Tide information: N/A
Dive 2
Time: 4:00 am
Bottom Time: 57
Max Depth: 16
Vis: up to 3-7
Wave height: -1
Temp at depth: cooold
Surface Temp: 55
Tide information: N/A
Comments:
Opening night, I was able to catch over a dozen, but non were legal sized. I think my scale is off, regardless the dive was very beautiful. Now the climb back up road thats another I suggest being in shape.
DFG was out there; one of the divers in our group got caught with an almost legal.
I want to apologize to Wrinkles for getting her home past 8am, will not happen again.
Check out the picture, Wrinkles doesnt look bad after being up for 24 hours.
ICE
Yeah! What he said.pasley:
I didn't feel like the dive was rushed. I accomplished everything that I wanted to on this dive. For me it was a great dive and the extra long surface swim was just what I needed.
It was nice to meet Robert Phillips and lunch at Cocos was great.
Unfortunately, I came home to a little computer disaster caused by a long brown out on my street, so I won't be able to make it back to Crescent Bay again tomorrow as I had planned. Maybe I'll get the computer back up and running or recover my data sooner than expected and be able to dive again mid week.
Thanks for the dive Melvin!
Christian
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