Sat Aug 18th Family Picnic/Dive

[CompuDude]

Here is another question.

Do you guys usually do one dive or two?

I was thinking I might rent a set of tanks for a second dive since it seems like a long drive for just one dive. (Unless there is a Dive shop nearby)

I can't speak for Rick, since it's his event, but from past experience I'd say it totally depends on conditions. If they're good (and I make it out), I'm definitely up for two dives. If the current is really blowing or vis is lousy, one is enough.

There is a dive shop about 12 miles up the road, Malibu Divers, where you can get a fill for $5 if you want. I've often done that for a second dive, if I didn't have a spare tank handy.

http://www.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...1906&sspn=0.006733,0.010031&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

 

[Rickster]

Thank you, Kalani. Exactly what I would have said

I am looking forward to this.

Rick

 

[Rickster]

Due to the recent GWS sightings at Pt Dume, I am beginning to think we should meet at a different location. I have found a few posts of sightings on a few other forums. Also, I may have some evidence. A couple of weeks ago Myself and 2 other divers were at Point Dume diving. I came across this:

For all you shark bite experts out there, is it, or a shark attack victim or not?

Maybe we should just dive somewhere else? We could meet there, then go somewhere else.

What does everyone think? A free shark dive or not.

Rick

 

[Dash]

Funny, I was diving at Catalina last weekend and came across the picked clean skull and partial body of a swordfish, or at least one of those fishes with the long spear-like snout...


makes you start looking around.... (queue Jaws music...)


Hey, you guys name the place and provide directions and we'll be there. Just consider our noob-ness in regards to entry difficulty, is all I ask.

 

[Dash]

Hey Rick, was that a Shark Ray?

 

[CompuDude]

Rick, last time I was at Dume (just a couple of weeks ago) I came across several corpses of shovel nose guitarfish... could that be one? They weren't as chewed up as that, but there were piles of crabs and other critters doing their best to make them all chewed up. I wonder if that may be one of them also... there appears to have been a die-off for some reason, and the ones I saw definitely were not GWS-related. Now that I recall, I think I saw some SNGF corpses being picked over at Vets about this time last year as well... perhaps it's an annual thing?

Personally, I'm not overly concerned about the sightings. I'd be pretty excited to see one, actually. Outside of the triangle of doom up by San Francisco, when was the last documented GWS attack on a *diver* (NOT a surfer paddling a surfboard) in the water? Everything I've ever learned about shark behavior has said divers just don't move like food... sharks tend to ignore them.

 

[Dash]

I have to admit, Id love to see one too

although Id expect my SAC to go through the roof...:11:

 

[liuk3]

Funny that you mention this because I dove Pt. Dume last week on Saturday. We found a corpse of a shovelnose guitarfish as well which had a bite taken out of it. The width of the bite out of the guitarfish was about 1.5 ft. We were all wondering what cold have taken a bite out of the guitarfish with a bite width about that size. It was towards the end of our dive, so we ended up getting out of the water after 40 minutes of bottom time. Come to think of it though, what would be the bite size width of a shark bite anyway?

 

[CompuDude]

Funny that you mention this because I dove Pt. Dume last week on Saturday. We found a corpse of a shovelnose guitarfish as well which had a bite taken out of it. The width of the bite out of the guitarfish was about 1.5 ft. We were all wondering what cold have taken a bite out of the guitarfish with a bite width about that size. It was towards the end of our dive, so we ended up getting out of the water after 40 minutes of bottom time. Come to think of it though, what would be the bite size width of a shark bite anyway?

Depends on the shark.

 

[CompuDude]

Shoot, after all of this, I'm not going to be able to go. I just got roped into assisting an OW class at Leo Carrillo, by an instructor friend who desperately needed an assistant. Maybe next time... get some good GWS pictures for me!