Conditions right now are as good as I have seen in two years! Right now is the time to drop whatever you're doing and head out diving.
Yesterday I took a fellow visiting here from Germany out at Point Lobos, and it was absolutely spectacular. The only negative is that Phil hasn't been taking his boat out the sand channel enough, so the kelp is getting difficult to kick through. My plan for the first dive was to swim out to the bird rock and go north from there, but the kelp was too thick to kick all the way out on the surface. We dropped down in about 45' of water and headed towards HITW. All the way, it was about 60' of visibility. By the time we got over to Lone Metridium, it was maybe 70'. We could see the kelp on the surface clearly. From there we headed over to Seamount and could spot it clearly after we went about 50'. At Seamount, Beto's reef was easy to trace off to the NW. And once we dropped down below 90', the visibility opened up to easily 100'. We went all the way to the end of the reef and were simply spellbound. On the way back, we could see the water start to cloud up a tad just as we came up to Seamount. This guy was good on air--he's a CMAS instructor in Germany--so I was able bring him all the way back to the boat ramp on the bottom (using a HP100 with 32%). In the cove, visibility was only 20' or so. But out there in the deep blue, it's was a real 100'.
Second dive, we crossed over Middle Reef, went to Granite Point wall and looped around it, came back to Middle Reef, and went most of the way north on the east side of it before we started getting low on air (this time with a HP80 filled with air). So we crossed over Middle Reef in the middle and made it back to the boat ramp on the bottom before surfacing. Visibility out at Granite Point Wall was around 70', a little less going up and down over Middle Reef.
If you study the MBARI report (MBARI - M1 Contour CTD string Metsys plot - last 30 days), you can see the upwelling that has happened the past couple of days. As I type this Wednesday morning, the winds are still NNW and strong enough to sustain the upwelling current, so conditions may persist like this for a few more days.
Bruce
Yesterday I took a fellow visiting here from Germany out at Point Lobos, and it was absolutely spectacular. The only negative is that Phil hasn't been taking his boat out the sand channel enough, so the kelp is getting difficult to kick through. My plan for the first dive was to swim out to the bird rock and go north from there, but the kelp was too thick to kick all the way out on the surface. We dropped down in about 45' of water and headed towards HITW. All the way, it was about 60' of visibility. By the time we got over to Lone Metridium, it was maybe 70'. We could see the kelp on the surface clearly. From there we headed over to Seamount and could spot it clearly after we went about 50'. At Seamount, Beto's reef was easy to trace off to the NW. And once we dropped down below 90', the visibility opened up to easily 100'. We went all the way to the end of the reef and were simply spellbound. On the way back, we could see the water start to cloud up a tad just as we came up to Seamount. This guy was good on air--he's a CMAS instructor in Germany--so I was able bring him all the way back to the boat ramp on the bottom (using a HP100 with 32%). In the cove, visibility was only 20' or so. But out there in the deep blue, it's was a real 100'.
Second dive, we crossed over Middle Reef, went to Granite Point wall and looped around it, came back to Middle Reef, and went most of the way north on the east side of it before we started getting low on air (this time with a HP80 filled with air). So we crossed over Middle Reef in the middle and made it back to the boat ramp on the bottom before surfacing. Visibility out at Granite Point Wall was around 70', a little less going up and down over Middle Reef.
If you study the MBARI report (MBARI - M1 Contour CTD string Metsys plot - last 30 days), you can see the upwelling that has happened the past couple of days. As I type this Wednesday morning, the winds are still NNW and strong enough to sustain the upwelling current, so conditions may persist like this for a few more days.
Bruce
we having a release this week , but im there sundayz
