Video: PURP dive off Northern California.

[Eric Sedletzky]

About a year ago this gentleman attended one of our dives with his dog and recently made this video. I thought it was pretty cool.
He roves around the country in his van conversion and lives for experiences.
It shows what the sea floor looked like then and how many purple urchins there were close in.
Now it looks completely different. Where he is harvesting in the video is cleared now and completely overgrown with multiple species of bottom kelps and weeds, and fish galore. I noticed a marked absence of fish in this video except for the one lazy bull head which are very tame.

 

[wnissen]

That’s a fun video, I have never seen the collection done. I’ve been very lazy / busy this year with non-diving, but would love to make it up and collect with y’all sometime.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

This was this guys first ever urchin collection dive.
When he first descends and finds that one urchin and put it in his bag, that was number 1.
By the end of the day you can see he’s picked up the pace and getting it done. I know him by @skittlefabz on Instagram, but for the life of me I can’t remember his name, I know his dogs name is Lexi.
Those green bags are the biggest and the size everyone uses now. Many still use gardening rakes but I’ve been fabricating some different commercial style gauntlet rakes that take the pressure off your wrist. Many of us also employ a rope now to tow the bags in rather than float them in while surface swimming. It’s a lot easier to tow them in while coming in underwater.
We also have a sorting board we’ve been using to separate out by-catch. That video was taken before that.
We’ve figured out a lot since then.
It would be great if you could make it up some Sunday. Bring your friends and make a weekend out if it.