Photos from Catalina Island w/EcoDiveCenter

[scottfiji]

Had 3 great dives on catalina island on the "Mr. C" charted by the EcoDiveCenter, with good conditions and awesome dive buddies. Saw lots of cool stuff. Went to Nipple Rock, Parsons landing and Africa. Highlights include finding a rare large deep-red crab, moray city, and coming up REAL close to a bat ray laying on an algae bed.

Full dive report:
http://forums.scubapost.net/showthread.php?t=810

Quick view of a few selected photos:
http://forums.scubapost.net/showthread.php?p=4295#post4295

complete set of photos:
http://www.scubapost.net/gallery/album23
(feel free to leave comments on photos)

Enjoy! Scott

 

[drbill]

Hey Scott- Interested to know where Nipple Rock and Africa are. They are not Catalina geographic locations I'm familiar with. Know a lot of the mainland boats use their own names.

Glad you had a good experience there. My niece and nephew from Atlanta surprised me today by arriving on the island to dive with "Uncle Bill." We did two dives in the park and saw 12-18 bat rays hammering the shallow sandy bottom and FIVE black sea bass on the second dive. The largest one hung with us for 10-15 minutes allowing my nephew a great experience and I got plenty of video footage. Love days like that.

Bill

 

[scottfiji]

Hey Scott- Interested to know where Nipple Rock and Africa are. They are not Catalina geographic locations I'm familiar with. Know a lot of the mainland boats use their own names.

Glad you had a good experience there. My niece and nephew from Atlanta surprised me today by arriving on the island to dive with "Uncle Bill." We did two dives in the park and saw 12-18 bat rays hammering the shallow sandy bottom and FIVE black sea bass on the second dive. The largest one hung with us for 10-15 minutes allowing my nephew a great experience and I got plenty of video footage. Love days like that.

Bill

I know nipple rock is very close to parson's landing. I need to figure out where Africa was, they had showed us on the map.

5 black sea bass, thats really awesome.

You can't see it in the photo, but the bat ray had a big fishing hook in its mouth, sad.

 

[drbill]

Thanks. One of the bat rays I filmed yesterday had a large gash in its head (propeller?) and a fishing line with what appeared to be bait on it streaming behind it).