Date: October 01, 2005
Dive Location: Vets Park - I think. It was foggy on top and too thick to see below.
Time: 8:30 AM
Bottom Time: 77 minutes
Max Depth: 71 feet
Vis: uh.... Lemmie get back to you on that
Wave height: Lake Pacific
Temp at depth: 52
Surface Temp: probably in the mid 60's
Tide information: Rising.
Gas mix: Air (21%) Air
Comments: ew ew ew...
Well - I did my first AM night dive at Vets this morning. :11:
HBDiveChica and I kicked out a ways before we descended into the soup - passing a class of students all in a row behind a float. To me, it was reminiscent of a row of ducklings. I kinda snickered.
Apparently an instructor from another class cancelled his class there today he couldnt see if the students were able to clear their masks, basically because he couldnt see their masks.
After a drop through the yuck, HBDG guided us to the monument - my first time back since the Tourrettes at Vets a month ago. She counted 22 Octos. I counted probably twice that in rock fish. Whelk eggs, small barnacles, and other growth. Very impressive. There was a fringe of fishies in the mud all around the thing, just waiting for the bubble blowers to clear our to they could re-claim their spots on the Citadel. Someone has thoughtfully roped the thing together to offer some surge migration insurance. The mask on the tank looks like Phil's work, but I won't speculate... Good stuff.
Today was a total night dive. We stayed below the worst of it at about 52+ feet, cuz at 52- feet you were just thick in the ooze.
It was 53 degrees today at 60 feet and 52 (and dropping) at 71. We did about 77 minutes of this soup then called it a morning.
Lots of critters. If you kept your light and face pressed to the muck. Must have seen about 100 octos - including ones in snail shells, mussles, bottles, bricks, a hat, a scuba booty, and one that insisted on carrying around its lunch no matter how we pestered it.
Nudi eggs everywhere - no nudis. Just the stripped slug things (Navinak? Get the Knack? Quack & Quack? Hackensack?)
Claudette, again you rocked. Thanks for the tour. And thanks for the box of Bonito flies!
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Ken
Dive Location: Vets Park - I think. It was foggy on top and too thick to see below.
Time: 8:30 AM
Bottom Time: 77 minutes
Max Depth: 71 feet
Vis: uh.... Lemmie get back to you on that
Wave height: Lake Pacific
Temp at depth: 52
Surface Temp: probably in the mid 60's
Tide information: Rising.
Gas mix: Air (21%) Air
Comments: ew ew ew...
Well - I did my first AM night dive at Vets this morning. :11:
HBDiveChica and I kicked out a ways before we descended into the soup - passing a class of students all in a row behind a float. To me, it was reminiscent of a row of ducklings. I kinda snickered.
Apparently an instructor from another class cancelled his class there today he couldnt see if the students were able to clear their masks, basically because he couldnt see their masks.
After a drop through the yuck, HBDG guided us to the monument - my first time back since the Tourrettes at Vets a month ago. She counted 22 Octos. I counted probably twice that in rock fish. Whelk eggs, small barnacles, and other growth. Very impressive. There was a fringe of fishies in the mud all around the thing, just waiting for the bubble blowers to clear our to they could re-claim their spots on the Citadel. Someone has thoughtfully roped the thing together to offer some surge migration insurance. The mask on the tank looks like Phil's work, but I won't speculate... Good stuff.
Today was a total night dive. We stayed below the worst of it at about 52+ feet, cuz at 52- feet you were just thick in the ooze.
It was 53 degrees today at 60 feet and 52 (and dropping) at 71. We did about 77 minutes of this soup then called it a morning.
Lots of critters. If you kept your light and face pressed to the muck. Must have seen about 100 octos - including ones in snail shells, mussles, bottles, bricks, a hat, a scuba booty, and one that insisted on carrying around its lunch no matter how we pestered it.
Nudi eggs everywhere - no nudis. Just the stripped slug things (Navinak? Get the Knack? Quack & Quack? Hackensack?)
Claudette, again you rocked. Thanks for the tour. And thanks for the box of Bonito flies!
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Ken