Dave Wakeley and Pieter Booth met at 4:30 for a 5:00 splash. Dive lesson for the day: check tank o-rings before each dive. The o-ring on my first tank blew as we were suiting up (better there than at 60 sfw!) leaving me with 2200 psi on an Al80. So I switched to my LP 80 so we could do our deeper dive first. Viz. was a very decent 20-30 feet, but where were the critters? We did our standard dive no. 1 down the boundary line to about 75 fsw then across to the rock piles (no juvenile wolfie around), I-beams, up the slope to the pilings, then the honey bear, and home. Other than a large ling, lots of shrimp, a couple rockfish, and tubesnouts courting in the shallows...not too much to see. I could see Dave really well all dive, but he's not as photogenic as a stubby squid (sorry Dave). For the second dive we kept it max. about 50 fsw and we still got 50 minutes out of my Al80. Weather was sunny and warm. |
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