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Sheep Crab Wranglers (by MaxBottomtime) Margaret Webb and Jim Lyle dived the Topaz Pilings this morning and reported that a sheep crab had become entangled in the line. We were planning to make a night dive there tonight, but decided to go over this afternoon and look for the crab. Fortunately it wasn't had to find. It was on the first piling we saw, so we cut it free and re-ti... (more) |
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That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it (by MaxBottomtime) We thought about cancelling our dives with Kevin Lee after looking at milky water all day yesterday, but figured we might get more than the three or four feet vis we expected. We got much more. We dropped anchor on one of the Redondo Artificial reefs and Merry gave a big thumbs up from the bow. We could easily see fifteen feet down the li... (more) |
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Yet another dry day :( (by MaxBottomtime) After a few days of large surf I was hoping the swell models were wrong about today. They were. We had one foot swells with Santana Wind-generated whitecaps in the morning, but by the afternoon we had glassy seas. We drove from Redondo Beach to Portuguese Bend looking for diveable water. We found milk. While heading back home we shot phot... (more) |
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Smooth As Silt. Diving The FS Loop And White Point Outfall Pipe (by MaxBottomtime) Catalina Guerra joined us this morning as we headed to San Pedro to pick up Kevin Lee. We left early enough so that Kevin wouldn't wait in the Cabrillo Beach boat launch lot too long. Soon after leaving King Harbor we spotted a pod of small Common dolphin. We spent several minutes photographing them as they rode our bow wake. We hastily c... (more) |
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Dive Until It Hurts (by MaxBottomtime) I had four days off at New Years. It was foggy all weekend. The next weekend brought us the first high surf of the year. This past week I have been battling a sinus infection. I was diving today, no matter what! Our first stop was the wreck of the Palawan. This is not one of my favorite wrecks, but it had been a long time since I dived it... (more) |
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Conditions Improving. Just In Time For My Return To Work. (by MaxBottomtime) We lucked out this morning by staying close to home. One dive on the Redondo Barge followed by another foray onto the Topaz pilings. I didn't find much to photograph on the barge. I didn't even turn my camera on for the first ten minutes. The pilings were much better. We had about fifteen feet visibility despite the surge, and I even foun... (more) |
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Diving At A Snail's Pace (by MaxBottomtime) I've been looking forward to this week all year. I have a four day weekend this week and another one next week. The ocean has been flat, so I was hoping for lots of great dives to end the year. The visibility of the past two days has been pretty bad. We've had around five feet vis for most of our dives. I decided to head north and dive th... (more) |
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Conditions Are Still Bad, Or Is It Just A Fluke? (by MaxBottomtime) We left King Harbor this morning in search of better conditions than yesterday. There were also reports of more Orcas heading our way. We didn't find either, but minutes after exiting the harbor we found six Gray whales diving in less than 90 feet off Malaga Cove. We saw four more at Pt. Vicente before checking out o... (more) |
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Gloomy Dive On The Avalon Wreck (by MaxBottomtime) After replacing a fuel pump on the boat this morning, we were anxious to get in a dive. I wanted to stay close to the marina, just in case, so we headed to one of our least favorite sites, the wreck of the Avalon. It's rare that we have good conditions here. Others seem to dive it when it's clear and calm, but not us. With a couple days o... (more) |
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Styling On The Pilings (by MaxBottomtime) The ocean was flat as predicted, except when another boat came by and rocked us with its wake. Coffee spilled, utensils fell to the floor and I had just vacuumed this morning. Our first dive was on a wooden pier piling off the Topaz Jetty. We didn't find any nudibranchs as Craig Hoover did, but I had shrimp pose for me. Visibility was g... (more) |
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Diving In A Beautiful Dump (by MaxBottomtime) The wind and rain from this week washed debris down gutters, storm drains and cement rivers, leaving floating islands of trash in the ocean. We spent the first half of our day picking up after litterbugs before making it to the south side of Palos Verdes. Once the trash pickup was done, the ocean looked as beautiful as it ever does. W... (more) |
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Science Diving On The West Side (by MaxBottomtime) I dived with three chicks at the same time today. Along with Merry and Margaret Webb, Mary Wicksten, Professor of Marine Biology at Texas A&M (http://www.bio.tamu.edu/facmenu/faculty/wickstenm.htm) joined us for a decapod dive on the crane off Haggerty's. The place was crawling with crustaceans. Some crustaceans are ... (more) |
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