Video - San Clemente on the Great Escape, Aug 2008

[robint]

Hi all,

I have the video done for Day 1 of our trip to California on the Great Escape. Enjoy!
Diving at San Clemente, Channel Islands - Aug2008 on Vimeo


robin

 

[ShakaZulu]

Nice color is a bit off? Those Garibaldi's are usually bright orange....oh, it's the lack of light, my bad.

 

[Bound]

Great video.

 

[robint]

Nice color is a bit off? Those Garibaldi's are usually bright orange....oh, it's the lack of light, my bad.

yes, I do not have external lights. Dive #1 was at 7am or so and we went down to 75' so it was very dark, especially under the kelp canopy. Dive #2 was shallower but current was blazing and kelp was laying over at 90 degree angle. Dive #3 was shallow, only 20-30' the whole dive and quite technicolor! Vis wasn't as good at that site and with the weird colors it was like an old colorized movie to me. There were hundreds of garibaldi there and yes, they were all bright orange.

 

[robint]

Great video.

thanks! that was our first trip out to San Clemente so it was very exciting but we didn't know what to expect. Next time out there I would prefer to do a multi-day trip so we didn't have to leave to go back in to port in the middle of the day. The sun was barely up (lunch) when we had to head back. With the morning marine layer/fog it was very dark for the first dive, almost a night dive. The 3rd dive was the only dive at SC where we had full sun. Tough when you are using a SD format camcorder without lights. I wished I had taken down a dive light for that first dive! Oh well, I guess that just means we need to go back!