whalerkyle
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Awsome report, thanks for that.PnL:
October 04 Dive Reports
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whalerkyle
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Roger, you don't look to happy. What's up?
Nice bugs, woot!!
Kyle
Nice bugs, woot!!
Kyle
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Sunday dive.
Shaws cove. Broke in a couple of friends with their first shore dive. Conditions were better than yesterday but still rough. Vis 12 to 20 at depth. Water was a LOT warmer than yesterday. I didn't even notice a thermalcline. Had surge and poor vis but the dive went very well and our buddies did great. I just hope they don't think its like that ALL the time in Laguna.
Dove with Snakedoctor, jetfixer, the Duck, Renee and Rubin.
Shaws cove. Broke in a couple of friends with their first shore dive. Conditions were better than yesterday but still rough. Vis 12 to 20 at depth. Water was a LOT warmer than yesterday. I didn't even notice a thermalcline. Had surge and poor vis but the dive went very well and our buddies did great. I just hope they don't think its like that ALL the time in Laguna.
Dove with Snakedoctor, jetfixer, the Duck, Renee and Rubin.
Nay
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Date: 10/10
Dive Location: Malaga
Time: ~2:30
Bottom Time: 2 min
Max Depth: 9'
Vis: knee-foot
Wave height: bigger than I liked
Comments: Today sucked.
Orignally was going to go out with some buddies that dive Malaga all the time. They couldn't so it was just three of us who haven't dove the spot before. It's apparently a great spot and I had a camera that I wanted to test out before my shark dive in two weeks.
None of us had done a rock entry before and for those that haven't done Malaga, the rocks are in 1-2' or water for about 30' and the waves pounded me the whole way. It was the hardest thing I've ever done in scuba gear ever and I don't ever want to do it again. Once we were out and rested, we swam toward the kelp and viz was still a murky 5'. We tried to drop down and see if it would get any better at depth. I think out of three of us, my husband recorded the lowest depth at 12'.
We called it and swam over to the beach exit and I almost tried to bribe a kid out of his boogie board so I could avoid the waves on exit but the exit went fine.
Then there was the very long climb up the ramp...
Malaga will have to be done another day with some one who knows what they're doing.
Margaritas were good though.
Dive Location: Malaga
Time: ~2:30
Bottom Time: 2 min
Max Depth: 9'
Vis: knee-foot
Wave height: bigger than I liked
Comments: Today sucked.
Orignally was going to go out with some buddies that dive Malaga all the time. They couldn't so it was just three of us who haven't dove the spot before. It's apparently a great spot and I had a camera that I wanted to test out before my shark dive in two weeks.
None of us had done a rock entry before and for those that haven't done Malaga, the rocks are in 1-2' or water for about 30' and the waves pounded me the whole way. It was the hardest thing I've ever done in scuba gear ever and I don't ever want to do it again. Once we were out and rested, we swam toward the kelp and viz was still a murky 5'. We tried to drop down and see if it would get any better at depth. I think out of three of us, my husband recorded the lowest depth at 12'.
We called it and swam over to the beach exit and I almost tried to bribe a kid out of his boogie board so I could avoid the waves on exit but the exit went fine.
Then there was the very long climb up the ramp...
Malaga will have to be done another day with some one who knows what they're doing.
Margaritas were good though.
scottfiji
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Nay,
sorry to hear about your bad experience at Malaga, it's a great site. I've done it a few times, hear are a few pointers for anyone who tries it for the first time:
- I try to do Malaga at high tide. You did it at low tide, worst time to do it. If you have to do it at low tide, you have to enter at the beach, you'll avoid all the rocks you swam over. I can't believe you made it out over those rocks at low tide with a strong NW surf, it sounds suicidal! you must have been wearing body armor.
- Just about any site I do has zero vis at a depth of 9 feet, when there are waves. Most of the good part of malaga is between 20 and 30 feet in depth. You needed to keep swimming out to a deeper depth. On a low vis day, I try to swim to the deepest part of a kelp reef, where the vis is usually better than the shallowest part.
hope this helps if there is a next time,
Scott
sorry to hear about your bad experience at Malaga, it's a great site. I've done it a few times, hear are a few pointers for anyone who tries it for the first time:
- I try to do Malaga at high tide. You did it at low tide, worst time to do it. If you have to do it at low tide, you have to enter at the beach, you'll avoid all the rocks you swam over. I can't believe you made it out over those rocks at low tide with a strong NW surf, it sounds suicidal! you must have been wearing body armor.
- Just about any site I do has zero vis at a depth of 9 feet, when there are waves. Most of the good part of malaga is between 20 and 30 feet in depth. You needed to keep swimming out to a deeper depth. On a low vis day, I try to swim to the deepest part of a kelp reef, where the vis is usually better than the shallowest part.
hope this helps if there is a next time,
Scott
scubapro5
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Hey Nay sorry to hear of the uncomfortable dive due to the rocks.
Scott gave some xint advise and when I use to dive there I always did a sand beach entry and exit whenever needed and then do a surface swim out to the deeper area before decending.
Scott gave some xint advise and when I use to dive there I always did a sand beach entry and exit whenever needed and then do a surface swim out to the deeper area before decending.
scubapro5
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whalerkyle:
Hey Kyle I was smiling underwater lol
endorfin
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We dove Catalina Isand opener night and the next night as well. Only my third season and we did better than I ever dreamed... Ate Lobster Tails, Lobster Taco's and Lobststew and still came home with more than we could fit into a full size cooler. Mostly because of the size. We caught four that were very large... and one tank of a guy. See attatched,,,
whalerkyle
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Awsome!!endorfin:
ScubaSeanMaui
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Date: 10/09/2004
Dive Location: Laguna Beach, Shaws Cove
Time: 8:36am
Bottom Time: 31:40
Max Depth: 28 feet
Vis: 5-15 feet
Wave height: 4 feet or so
Temp at depth: 61 degrees
Surface Temp: 63 degrees
Tide information: Looked high
Comments: I needed to complete my AOW certification, so I met the group at Shaw's cove for 2 dives. The group was supposed to be 8 people, but only 4 showed up. One girl was doing her 5th dive and was unable to get past the waves. She got rolled in the waves and decided to try it again another day. We did our navigation skills in some considerable surge. Once we finished we exited with no problems.
Date: 10/09/2004
Dive Location: Laguna Beach, Shaws Cove
Time: 9:52am
Bottom Time: 38:00
Max Depth: 39 feet
Vis: 15 - 20 feet
Wave height: 4 feet or so
Temp at depth: 59 degrees
Surface Temp: 63 degrees
Comments:
This was a photography dive. I changed my tank and got my camera and met up with the instructor and other diver. We kicked out a bit and headded out. We saw a few octopus and the usual critters. The vis was ok, but the surge was too much to go through the crevice. Once the other diver hit his return air we headed back and exited with no problem. I saw a school of fish on the way back as well as the final octopus. I actually enjoyed this dive (I didn't think I was going to). The instructor (Chris at Sports Chalet Laguna Niguel) was very nice and helpful!
pics: http://www.scubapost.net/gallery/shaws10092004
Dive Location: Laguna Beach, Shaws Cove
Time: 8:36am
Bottom Time: 31:40
Max Depth: 28 feet
Vis: 5-15 feet
Wave height: 4 feet or so
Temp at depth: 61 degrees
Surface Temp: 63 degrees
Tide information: Looked high
Comments: I needed to complete my AOW certification, so I met the group at Shaw's cove for 2 dives. The group was supposed to be 8 people, but only 4 showed up. One girl was doing her 5th dive and was unable to get past the waves. She got rolled in the waves and decided to try it again another day. We did our navigation skills in some considerable surge. Once we finished we exited with no problems.
Date: 10/09/2004
Dive Location: Laguna Beach, Shaws Cove
Time: 9:52am
Bottom Time: 38:00
Max Depth: 39 feet
Vis: 15 - 20 feet
Wave height: 4 feet or so
Temp at depth: 59 degrees
Surface Temp: 63 degrees
Comments:
This was a photography dive. I changed my tank and got my camera and met up with the instructor and other diver. We kicked out a bit and headded out. We saw a few octopus and the usual critters. The vis was ok, but the surge was too much to go through the crevice. Once the other diver hit his return air we headed back and exited with no problem. I saw a school of fish on the way back as well as the final octopus. I actually enjoyed this dive (I didn't think I was going to). The instructor (Chris at Sports Chalet Laguna Niguel) was very nice and helpful!
pics: http://www.scubapost.net/gallery/shaws10092004
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