Seriously, what's the deal....

[JMdiver]

I'll be on the Spectre Sat & Sun DM'ing. Am looking forward to the E-ticket ride to the island.

John

 

[merxlin]

So despite the doom & gloom, off we went to Catalina. The plan was to try Cat Saturday then try SBI Sunday. A very quiet crossing (well, a bit of hail and a few waterspouts, but not enough to wake us up). Some drizzle for dive 1, then sun off & on all day. Viz was decent, and only a mild swell now & then. Made 4 good dives. The plan was to leave early Sun morning for SBI if conditions were OK.

Unfortunately there was still a big swell between the islands, so we stayed at Cat. 4 more very nice dives today, with a bit of surface current but a really nice day otherwise. The ride back in was a little lumpy but not bad.

So despite the forecasts it really was an alright weekend. I'm glad they didn't cancel and I went.

 

[Teamcasa]

I'm gald you had good dives Mike, we were worried (a little) about you and the other divers.

 

[merxlin]

I'm gald you had good dives Mike, we were worried (a little) about you and the other divers.

Thanks Dave. I've had much worse conditons with much better forecasts.

I wanna be a weather forecaster. How hard can it be?

 

[JMdiver]

Yeah we had about the same conditions going out to Anacapa Sat. & Sun. We had 10 to 12 ft swells moving fast Sat. going back Sat. which made it a little difficult getting in the harbor.

John

 

[Empty V]

Glad you guys made it back Mike and John, hopefully we'll have better conditions next weekend.

Billy

 

[ligersandtions]

Glad you guys made it back Mike and John, hopefully we'll have better conditions next weekend.

Billy

The swell model isn't predicting anything too nice for this coming weekend :depressed: I'm holding out hope that they got it wrong and it will clear up and be nice.

Regardless if conditions aren't up to par we'll trek it out to Catalina.

Billy

I can't think of anything worse than this (okay, I can....a trip out even further than Catalina). I don't normally do boat dives because I get sea sick and feel miserable (and cause I'm cheap....maybe that has something to do with it!). I can only imagine with a boat smaller than the Catalina Express and 6-8 foot swell....maybe we'll get to see sharks or something

i.e. I'll be chummin'

 

[merxlin]

Just remember a west swell means a pretty good blockage by the island. Catalina casts a pretty good shadow. SBI is too small and the swells just wrap around it. While it was 6-8ft between us and SBI, it was very calm by the island. It only got a bit choppy when the wind picked up. Coming back there were some side swells, but no really big rollers. No one was even close to sick.

I looked at the wekend models and they look very similar to this past weekend.