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The Mighty Lexy FEBRUARY 2006 Dive Reports Thread
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Thank you, very much! Teresa and I will see you at Catalina.
Skull
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Date: 2/12/06
Dive Location: HMCS Yukon- Dove off my boat
Buddy(ies): Doc , first mate is Doc's ex-girlfriend Buffy ...
Time: 8:30am
Bottom Time: 19min
Max Depth: 99'
Vis: 10-15'
Wave height: rolling
Temp at depth: 54-57 F
Surface Temp:75 beautiful degrees F under Santa Anna conditions-awsome
Tide information: tide just peaked ---heading out in a hurry
Gas mix:21%
Comments: Well well well ... another eventful dive with Doc ... we never seem to get into enough mischief together. Buffy our first mate and dive tender, who I will say meets every concieviable notion and attribute of a stereotypical "Buffy" with the exception of deep dark hair... ventured off to the Yukon this am. Buffy and Doc used to be an item, those days are definitely over ... On to the dive, we blaze out of Mission Bay over slightly rolling surf and head 310 to the Yukon, pass a commercial dive boat in route who was full of a LDS (I know most of the students and instructors). Speed was about 28 knots, so of course we missed the dive buoy. Doc marks our time at the mouth of the harbor but I wasn't paying to close attention to the speed since we planed like a knife on fresh cake icing. We blow by only one buoy figured it was the Ruby E Lee, since we blew past it in about 5 mins travel time. Yukon is typically ten minutes @ 20 knots ... so we head out further. then realize, it had to be the Yukon so 180 deg back, we pull up to the buoys. Thought it would be rude to blaze by the commercial boat and take the buoy, instead we move south and decide to drop an anchor. The tide was pulling out with a 7' differential I thought it would be better to secure our position and descend the anchor line. The pacific ocean is what...about 9 trillion square miles or so ... give or take about 1 trillion ....instruct Doc (previous posts I mentioned he was in the US Navy allegedely a UDT/SeAL corpsman) he must of missed the anchoring part. Since we were the first ones on the dive site I immediately checked for bubbles ... none. Doc heaves my achor over the bow ... I immediately tell him to slow the descent ... "ease the damn thing over the boat , its an anchor not a horseshoe..." Tide is pulling the line tight and I say maybe we should move even further south so please weigh anchor ... course it won't budge... want to know why???? I figure he dropped it on the stern of the Yukon and it is fouled on some part of the stucture. We now have a mission ... no big deal. We can descend and release the anchor while Buffy maintains our position. NDL' for air is 22 min. at 100'. Don gear hit the water with the plan of if we can't free the anchor we will at the very least cut the anchor free AT THE END OF THE DIVE so we don't have to swim forever if Buffy can't manage the boat. Down we go we hit the Yukon stern and out of ... did I say 9 trillion square miles of Pacific ocean ...we dropped the anchor right into a entry hole # 4S7 for you familiar with the Yukon. We assess the situation and decide to leave the anchor in place and explore the wreak and then on our return to the ascend point i.e our anchor, we will cut the line and try to free the anchor then re-attach the freed anchor and ascend the anchor line and finally weigh the anchor. Well like usual Doc has to make each and every dive into a work out and of course runs out of air... he had about 750 psi left on our return point. What i didn't realize is he didn't cut the rope either. $35 for an anchor is one thing but $0.50 / ft for rope is another mind we have about 130' out. I grab his BC and begin the ascent ... figuring if he runs out of air on the way up he can at least use my octo for the safety stop ...right. We stop at 50' for a minute ... Doc is at about 450 psi ... then we ascend to 15' for three more minutes ... everything is fine. We finish our dive and I swim over to the commercial boat to say high and all the crodial stuff one does on a Sunday morning out in the middle of the pacific ocean ... I glance back over at my boat and there is Doc below my bow with a frayed remnant of what used to be my anchor line dangling from the bow like a very bad Bugs Bunny cartoon, knife in hand and smile on his face like he finally got to be the pirate the US Navy would never let him be. Point is in the back of my mind I knew we were going to lose my anchor, but I never thought we would loose 130' of rope. Never let someone else do a job you must do yourself ...ever. Up side I have a recovery operation planned for wednesday with my next door neighbor Pete who is all too willing to try out his new dry suit ... for a good cause. Course I'm sure someone got my rope ... but the anchor the anchor is still inside the Yukon ...waiting for the next dive report.
Dive Location: HMCS Yukon- Dove off my boat
Buddy(ies): Doc , first mate is Doc's ex-girlfriend Buffy ...
Time: 8:30am
Bottom Time: 19min
Max Depth: 99'
Vis: 10-15'
Wave height: rolling
Temp at depth: 54-57 F
Surface Temp:75 beautiful degrees F under Santa Anna conditions-awsome
Tide information: tide just peaked ---heading out in a hurry
Gas mix:21%
Comments: Well well well ... another eventful dive with Doc ... we never seem to get into enough mischief together. Buffy our first mate and dive tender, who I will say meets every concieviable notion and attribute of a stereotypical "Buffy" with the exception of deep dark hair... ventured off to the Yukon this am. Buffy and Doc used to be an item, those days are definitely over ... On to the dive, we blaze out of Mission Bay over slightly rolling surf and head 310 to the Yukon, pass a commercial dive boat in route who was full of a LDS (I know most of the students and instructors). Speed was about 28 knots, so of course we missed the dive buoy. Doc marks our time at the mouth of the harbor but I wasn't paying to close attention to the speed since we planed like a knife on fresh cake icing. We blow by only one buoy figured it was the Ruby E Lee, since we blew past it in about 5 mins travel time. Yukon is typically ten minutes @ 20 knots ... so we head out further. then realize, it had to be the Yukon so 180 deg back, we pull up to the buoys. Thought it would be rude to blaze by the commercial boat and take the buoy, instead we move south and decide to drop an anchor. The tide was pulling out with a 7' differential I thought it would be better to secure our position and descend the anchor line. The pacific ocean is what...about 9 trillion square miles or so ... give or take about 1 trillion ....instruct Doc (previous posts I mentioned he was in the US Navy allegedely a UDT/SeAL corpsman) he must of missed the anchoring part. Since we were the first ones on the dive site I immediately checked for bubbles ... none. Doc heaves my achor over the bow ... I immediately tell him to slow the descent ... "ease the damn thing over the boat , its an anchor not a horseshoe..." Tide is pulling the line tight and I say maybe we should move even further south so please weigh anchor ... course it won't budge... want to know why???? I figure he dropped it on the stern of the Yukon and it is fouled on some part of the stucture. We now have a mission ... no big deal. We can descend and release the anchor while Buffy maintains our position. NDL' for air is 22 min. at 100'. Don gear hit the water with the plan of if we can't free the anchor we will at the very least cut the anchor free AT THE END OF THE DIVE so we don't have to swim forever if Buffy can't manage the boat. Down we go we hit the Yukon stern and out of ... did I say 9 trillion square miles of Pacific ocean ...we dropped the anchor right into a entry hole # 4S7 for you familiar with the Yukon. We assess the situation and decide to leave the anchor in place and explore the wreak and then on our return to the ascend point i.e our anchor, we will cut the line and try to free the anchor then re-attach the freed anchor and ascend the anchor line and finally weigh the anchor. Well like usual Doc has to make each and every dive into a work out and of course runs out of air... he had about 750 psi left on our return point. What i didn't realize is he didn't cut the rope either. $35 for an anchor is one thing but $0.50 / ft for rope is another mind we have about 130' out. I grab his BC and begin the ascent ... figuring if he runs out of air on the way up he can at least use my octo for the safety stop ...right. We stop at 50' for a minute ... Doc is at about 450 psi ... then we ascend to 15' for three more minutes ... everything is fine. We finish our dive and I swim over to the commercial boat to say high and all the crodial stuff one does on a Sunday morning out in the middle of the pacific ocean ... I glance back over at my boat and there is Doc below my bow with a frayed remnant of what used to be my anchor line dangling from the bow like a very bad Bugs Bunny cartoon, knife in hand and smile on his face like he finally got to be the pirate the US Navy would never let him be. Point is in the back of my mind I knew we were going to lose my anchor, but I never thought we would loose 130' of rope. Never let someone else do a job you must do yourself ...ever. Up side I have a recovery operation planned for wednesday with my next door neighbor Pete who is all too willing to try out his new dry suit ... for a good cause. Course I'm sure someone got my rope ... but the anchor the anchor is still inside the Yukon ...waiting for the next dive report.
scjoe
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It is on the calendar for now, but there are those pesky last minute intrusions like family and work that seem to always throw me a curve.Rickster:An avatar is the next step! A couple more post and you will be addicted. Late nights and early mornings, all on the Board! ha ha.
It was great diving with you, are you going to the next one on Catalina?
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Final tally? He squids me a little and the viz was Great!
Valentines Day, February 14, 2006
Redondo Canyon, Veterans Park
8:00 PM splash
57F temp
Visibility: 20 feet and better!
Max depth: 73fsw
Run time: 57minutes
2 days after the full moon
Frank-O and I were wise enough to shift Valentine events with our respective spouses to a non-diving day... so we were free to voyeur-it down in the canyon, hoping for libidinous Loligo opalescens (market squid) to be strutting their multi-armed stuff for our eyes and lenses.
Clouds obscured the moon, and there were no squid boats out, but we splashed in hoping for the best.
Surprise!!! I could see my fins while surface swimming out toward the canyon! Fins.. heck, I could see the bottom at about 20 feet. We parachute-dropped onto a huge, rippled-sand field, with crabs and Kellet's whelks visible for great distances in all directions. Incredibly dense patches of 3/4 inch sand dollars continue to line the edges of the canyon at about 35fsw. We slipped over the edge and down the slope, chasing frantic schools of 4 inch slivery fish with our flaming HIDs. We found thick clusters of big squid egg-sacks starting at 60fsw and continuing down to 75 fsw. Individual squid propulsed about, while pairs mated here and there above the egg patches. We both laughed to see two crabs doing a tug-o'-war over a dead squid, while other crabs were running up the slope carrying smaller bits. The regulars paraded before Frank's camera: Crabs (all kinds: swimming, sheep, yellow, brown, elbow, masking, and a funny one with 1 inch long lateral spines, fat claws, that liked to hop up and down... weird looking! Maybe Frank got a picture...), octopus, cusk eels, round rays (tan or dark brown), pink seastars, a midshipman fattie, assorted little flat fish, baby horn sharks, squid, shrimp, scopion fish, and zooming schools of little silver fish. We meandered up the slope and back across the corduroyed sandy shelf. It was a great night for a dive, with excellent visibility, and a much warmer parking lot than our last Freezing experience here back in December. We didn't get to be bombarded by massive balls of squid, but we did enjoy seeing the eggs and many individual squidlets out and about on romantic missions.
Thank you, Frank, for an Il Faut Aller Voir evening of diving fun!
Happy Valentines Day to all
Claudette
Valentines Day, February 14, 2006
Redondo Canyon, Veterans Park
8:00 PM splash
57F temp
Visibility: 20 feet and better!
Max depth: 73fsw
Run time: 57minutes
2 days after the full moon
Frank-O and I were wise enough to shift Valentine events with our respective spouses to a non-diving day... so we were free to voyeur-it down in the canyon, hoping for libidinous Loligo opalescens (market squid) to be strutting their multi-armed stuff for our eyes and lenses.
Clouds obscured the moon, and there were no squid boats out, but we splashed in hoping for the best.
Surprise!!! I could see my fins while surface swimming out toward the canyon! Fins.. heck, I could see the bottom at about 20 feet. We parachute-dropped onto a huge, rippled-sand field, with crabs and Kellet's whelks visible for great distances in all directions. Incredibly dense patches of 3/4 inch sand dollars continue to line the edges of the canyon at about 35fsw. We slipped over the edge and down the slope, chasing frantic schools of 4 inch slivery fish with our flaming HIDs. We found thick clusters of big squid egg-sacks starting at 60fsw and continuing down to 75 fsw. Individual squid propulsed about, while pairs mated here and there above the egg patches. We both laughed to see two crabs doing a tug-o'-war over a dead squid, while other crabs were running up the slope carrying smaller bits. The regulars paraded before Frank's camera: Crabs (all kinds: swimming, sheep, yellow, brown, elbow, masking, and a funny one with 1 inch long lateral spines, fat claws, that liked to hop up and down... weird looking! Maybe Frank got a picture...), octopus, cusk eels, round rays (tan or dark brown), pink seastars, a midshipman fattie, assorted little flat fish, baby horn sharks, squid, shrimp, scopion fish, and zooming schools of little silver fish. We meandered up the slope and back across the corduroyed sandy shelf. It was a great night for a dive, with excellent visibility, and a much warmer parking lot than our last Freezing experience here back in December. We didn't get to be bombarded by massive balls of squid, but we did enjoy seeing the eggs and many individual squidlets out and about on romantic missions.
Thank you, Frank, for an Il Faut Aller Voir evening of diving fun!
Happy Valentines Day to all
Claudette
Happy Valentines Day, Claudette!
What a way to spend the day. Sounds like you had great dive.
What a way to spend the day. Sounds like you had great dive.
Frank O
Contributor
Still sifting through the shots, but here are a few that caught my eye so far.HBDiveGirl:
A really nice dive!
Date: February 15, 2006
Dive Location: Marineland
Buddy(ies): Solo
Time: 11:06
Bottom Time: 1:04
Max Depth: 56'
Vis: 20'
Wave height: 0-3'
Temp at depth: 54F
Comments: I attempted once again to mark the hidden platform at Marineland this morning. Just like last Wednesday, I had the place to myself.
We found an abandoned lobster trapper's float on Sunday and I thought if I could set it on the platform, people wouldn't remove it like they did the bleach bottles I floated there before. I made the LOOOOOOOONG surface swim out to a depth of 56 feet and dropped to find sand and sea pens. I knew I was in the right area. I screwed my sand anchor into the bottom, tied the float to it and attached my reel. I set off in an Easterly heading. I planned to swim for about five minutes, turn North, then hope to snag the platform. No luck. All I found was a single piece of teak from the deck and some squid eggs. I knew I was close.
I returned to the anchor and decided to take the float with me this time. I wrapped the string around my wrist and headed West this time. After a few minutes I realized that if a boat were to hit the float it would tear my hand off. I untied the line from my wrist just as a wave went over, pulling the float away. I felt like a little kid watching his Mickey Mouse balloon float skyward. I continued West, finding only a few Mantis shrimp. They were camera shy. This is as close as I could get.
Nearing the end of my bottom time, I gave up the search and returned to the anchor. The wind had picked up considerably, so I swam in under water. The visibility in the cove was about ten feet, good enough to see where the rocks were in the surf zone. I walked out without falling.
This makes the twelth time I have searched for the elusive platform since someone cut the line from the rock I tied it to last July. Maybe it got up and walked away.
Dive Location: Marineland
Buddy(ies): Solo
Time: 11:06
Bottom Time: 1:04
Max Depth: 56'
Vis: 20'
Wave height: 0-3'
Temp at depth: 54F
Comments: I attempted once again to mark the hidden platform at Marineland this morning. Just like last Wednesday, I had the place to myself.
We found an abandoned lobster trapper's float on Sunday and I thought if I could set it on the platform, people wouldn't remove it like they did the bleach bottles I floated there before. I made the LOOOOOOOONG surface swim out to a depth of 56 feet and dropped to find sand and sea pens. I knew I was in the right area. I screwed my sand anchor into the bottom, tied the float to it and attached my reel. I set off in an Easterly heading. I planned to swim for about five minutes, turn North, then hope to snag the platform. No luck. All I found was a single piece of teak from the deck and some squid eggs. I knew I was close.
I returned to the anchor and decided to take the float with me this time. I wrapped the string around my wrist and headed West this time. After a few minutes I realized that if a boat were to hit the float it would tear my hand off. I untied the line from my wrist just as a wave went over, pulling the float away. I felt like a little kid watching his Mickey Mouse balloon float skyward. I continued West, finding only a few Mantis shrimp. They were camera shy. This is as close as I could get.
Nearing the end of my bottom time, I gave up the search and returned to the anchor. The wind had picked up considerably, so I swam in under water. The visibility in the cove was about ten feet, good enough to see where the rocks were in the surf zone. I walked out without falling.
This makes the twelth time I have searched for the elusive platform since someone cut the line from the rock I tied it to last July. Maybe it got up and walked away.
jerryn
Contributor
Date: 2/12
Dive Location: Ship Rock
Buddy(ies): n/a
Time:
Bottom Time: 53m
Max Depth:
Vis: 45'
Wave height: 2'
Temp at depth: 52
Surface Temp: 59
Tide information:
Gas mix: rebreather
Comments:
Finally I'm back in the water. Went to Ship Rock with Gary Jackson's PsaltyV. Tried to go deep but there was a ripping current so I spent most of my time around 100' - 110'. Great visibility, lots of fish, and I was diving again.
Date: 2/12
Dive Location: Blue Caverns
Buddy(ies): n/a
Time:
Bottom Time: 51
Max Depth:
Vis: 35'
Wave height: 1'
Temp at depth: 52 degrees
Surface Temp: 58 degrees
Tide information:
Gas mix: rebreather
Comments:
Much mellower dive. Descended at the outer buoy and headed into the sand flats. Found a large tractor tire that seems to have found a new home. Made a circle and at 22 minutes started heading towards the caverns. no surge or current at depth but plenty of small fish life. No large pelagics spotted. The kelp around the cavern seems to have thinned a bit since the last time I was there.
Planning on being in Malibu on Sunday for some beach diving. Any word on recent visibility / conditions at Leo?
Jerry
Dive Location: Ship Rock
Buddy(ies): n/a
Time:
Bottom Time: 53m
Max Depth:
Vis: 45'
Wave height: 2'
Temp at depth: 52
Surface Temp: 59
Tide information:
Gas mix: rebreather
Comments:
Finally I'm back in the water. Went to Ship Rock with Gary Jackson's PsaltyV. Tried to go deep but there was a ripping current so I spent most of my time around 100' - 110'. Great visibility, lots of fish, and I was diving again.
Date: 2/12
Dive Location: Blue Caverns
Buddy(ies): n/a
Time:
Bottom Time: 51
Max Depth:
Vis: 35'
Wave height: 1'
Temp at depth: 52 degrees
Surface Temp: 58 degrees
Tide information:
Gas mix: rebreather
Comments:
Much mellower dive. Descended at the outer buoy and headed into the sand flats. Found a large tractor tire that seems to have found a new home. Made a circle and at 22 minutes started heading towards the caverns. no surge or current at depth but plenty of small fish life. No large pelagics spotted. The kelp around the cavern seems to have thinned a bit since the last time I was there.
Planning on being in Malibu on Sunday for some beach diving. Any word on recent visibility / conditions at Leo?
Jerry
dpbishop
Contributor
Date: 2/15
Dive Location: Big Rock, La Jolla
Buddy(ies): solo
Time: 11:15 PM
Bottom Time: 56m
Max Depth: 28
Vis: 2-8'
Wave height: 3-4'
Temp at depth: 57
Surface Temp: 57
Tide information: Ebbing, +3.5
Gas mix: air
Comments:
You Orange County guys are starting to tic me off with your reports of 20 foot viz. I battled my way out thru 3-4 ft shore break to enjoy 2 - 8 ft viz in the seaweed soup at Big Rock in La Jolla last night. Saw one fish (unidentifed) thru the murk. The surge was moving me 4-6 ft whenever it hit, like an underwater thrill ride. I was on a mission; getting lobster for a delayed Valentines day dinner when my GF gets back from Texas tonight.
Mission accomplished.
Dive Location: Big Rock, La Jolla
Buddy(ies): solo
Time: 11:15 PM
Bottom Time: 56m
Max Depth: 28
Vis: 2-8'
Wave height: 3-4'
Temp at depth: 57
Surface Temp: 57
Tide information: Ebbing, +3.5
Gas mix: air
Comments:
You Orange County guys are starting to tic me off with your reports of 20 foot viz. I battled my way out thru 3-4 ft shore break to enjoy 2 - 8 ft viz in the seaweed soup at Big Rock in La Jolla last night. Saw one fish (unidentifed) thru the murk. The surge was moving me 4-6 ft whenever it hit, like an underwater thrill ride. I was on a mission; getting lobster for a delayed Valentines day dinner when my GF gets back from Texas tonight.
Mission accomplished.
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