Previous 25| Dive # 125 | Date: August 29, 1997. | Location: Pebble Beach (Carmel, CA) |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: hot & sunny |
| Water Temp: 60 F | Visibility: 50' | PSI Used: 800 psi air |
| Max depth: 56 feet | Time: 21 minutes | Total Hours: 68:49 |
| Comments: First dive in the kelp forests - WOW! Like being in trees - thick stalks spreading out to cover the surface. Saw a sheepshead & leopard shark, as well as lots of little stuff. | ||
| Dive # 124 | Date: August 28, 1997. | Location: Monterey Breakwater |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: hot, hot, hot! |
| Water Temp: 68 F | Visibility: 40' | PSI Used: 600 psi air |
| Max depth: 10 feet | Time: 20 minutes | Total Hours: 68:28 |
| Comments: Fields of sand dollars, some decorator crabs. Sealions further along the breakwater. | ||
| Dive # 123 | Date: August 17, 1997. | Location: Toby Rocks |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 1800 psi air |
| Max depth: 75 feet | Time: 45 minutes | Total Hours: 67:08 |
| Comments: BIG octopus - took pics. | ||
| Dive # 122 | Date: August 17, 1997. | Location: Flora Islet |
| Purpose: 6-gill sharks | Access: boat | Weather: perfect |
| Water Temp: 52 F | Visibility: 50' | PSI Used: 2200 psi air |
| Max depth: 112 feet | Time: 60 minutes | Total Hours: 66:23 |
| Comments: Dogfish, ratfish, but no sharks. Poked around in the shallows for eons. | ||
| Dive # 121 | Date: August 16, 1997. | Location: Ford Cove |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 56 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1600 psi air |
| Max depth: 41 feet | Time: 54 minutes | Total Hours: 65:23 |
| Comments: Couple of octopus, one out of his den, sliding down the rock. Lots of sleeping fish. Rockfish, shrimp, gunnels, snailfish. GREAT dive! | ||
| Dive # 120 | Date: August 16, 1997. | Location: Flora Islet |
| Purpose: 6-gill sharks | Access: boat | Weather: high overcast |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 50' | PSI Used: 1000 psi air |
| Max depth: 148 feet | Time: 33 minutes | Total Hours: 64:29 |
| Comments: TWO SHARKS at ~80'. Knew I'd see them as I was out of film in the camera. First was smaller - maybe 10' long. Swam very slowly and deliberately, let us within a few feet of them. Very, very neat. Also a GINORMOUS octopus under a rock, couple of big Puget Sound King crabs, ratfish, big yelloweye rockfish, and scallops everywhere! | ||
| Dive # 119 | Date: August 16, 1997. | Location: Flora Islet |
| Purpose: 6-gill sharks | Access: boat | Weather: high overcast |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 50' | PSI Used: 2300 psi air |
| Max depth: 139 feet | Time: 46 minutes | Total Hours: 63:56 |
| Comments: MASSIVE octopus - wiggled around. Ratfish, lots of smaller stuff in shallows. big red urchins. | ||
| Dive # 118 | Date: August 10, 1997. | Location: Keystone |
| Purpose: DM OW #4 | Access: shore | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 40' | PSI Used: 1000 psi air |
| Max depth: 50 feet | Time: 28 minutes | Total Hours: 63:10 |
| Comments: Tried to lure out octopus with scraping shell - had tentacles out and grabbing it, thought he was coming out for sure. Showed Caroline a swimming scallop - hilarious! Further along, found what I thought were a couple of octopus tentacles wrapped around a rock - the rock turned out the be the whole damn octopus! Played with him a bit, took some pics before he decided to make a break for his den. AWESOME dive! | ||
| Dive # 117 | Date: August 10, 1997. | Location: Keystone |
| Purpose: DM OW #3 | Access: shore | Weather: perfect |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 40' | PSI Used: 1200 psi air |
| Max depth: 53 feet | Time: 29 minutes | Total Hours: 62:42 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 116 | Date: August 9, 1997. | Location: Ansell Point |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: hot & clear |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 50' | PSI Used: 1400 psi air |
| Max depth: 65 feet | Time: 31 minutes | Total Hours: 62:13 |
| Comments: Wolf eel, decorated warbonnet, nudibranchs, shrimp, squat lobster, sailfin sculpin, greenlings, rockfish, lingcod, red crescent gunnel, weird fish. EXTREMELY TIRED! | ||
| Dive # 115 | Date: August 9, 1997. | Location: Ansell Point |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: hot & clear |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 50' | PSI Used: 2000 psi air |
| Max depth: 92 feet | Time: 43 minutes | Total Hours: 61:42 |
| Comments: Played with wolfeel. | ||
| Dive # 114 | Date: August 9, 1997. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: DM OW #2 | Access: shore | Weather: hot & sunny |
| Water Temp: 56 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 800 psi air |
| Max depth: 43 feet | Time: 24 minutes | Total Hours: 60:59 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 113 | Date: August 9, 1997. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: DM OW #1 | Access: shore | Weather: beautiful |
| Water Temp: 56 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 1200 psi air |
| Max depth: 55 feet | Time: 24 minutes | Total Hours: 60:35 |
| Comments: Grunt sculpin! Yay! | ||
| Dive # 112 | Date: August 4, 1997. | Location: Tyler Rocks |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 1800 psi air |
| Max depth: 160 feet | Time: 38 minutes | Total Hours: 60:11 |
| Comments: Was that really a black starfish, or was I completely narked?? :-) | ||
| Dive # 111 | Date: August 4, 1997. | Location: Seapool Rocks |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 1600 psi air |
| Max depth: 89 feet | Time: 44 minutes | Total Hours: 59:33 |
| Comments: Red brotula peeking out of crack. Rockfish everywhere. Neat anemones & tubeworms, some burrowing cucumbers. Very dark - like doing a night dive! | ||
| Dive # 110 | Date: August 3, 1997. | Location: Seapool Rocks |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 1500 psi air |
| Max depth: 99 feet | Time: 36 minutes | Total Hours: 58:49 |
| Comments: Great dive! Saw brownish Irish Lord. Descended down a little further, found large male wolf-eel just sitting above the bottom. Further along, a ratfish, Puget Sound King crab, rockfish everywhere. Another ratfish. More king crabs, hydrocorals, sponges, anemones of every color. Medium sized octopus hanging out - pulled of my glove and played with him. | ||
| Dive # 109 | Date: August 3, 1997. | Location: Kyen Point |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1800 psi air |
| Max depth: 68 feet | Time: 43 minutes | Total Hours: 58:13 |
| Comments: Female wolf-eel, coaxed her out with an urchin. Not very friendly! | ||
| Dive # 108 | Date: August 3, 1997. | Location: Wreck of Vanlene |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: high overcast |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 5' | PSI Used: 1500 psi air |
| Max depth: 101 feet | Time: 26 minutes | Total Hours: 57:30 |
| Comments: Swam through cabins, saw some tiles, lots of twisted metal. Didn't go to hold w/cars - very poor vis. Didn't really get a good idea of what the ship was like! :-( | ||
| Dive # 107 | Date: August 2, 1997. | Location: Wreck of Vanlene |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: overcast |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 10' | PSI Used: 800 psi air |
| Max depth: 48 feet | Time: 22 minutes | Total Hours: 57:04 |
| Comments: Next to no vis - eerie bit of wreck. Very rusted. Some plumose anemones & kelp. Saw cabins & engines, came up from there. | ||
| Dive # 106 | Date: August 2, 1997. | Location: Kelli Reef |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: overcast |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1600 psi air |
| Max depth: 107 feet | Time: 38 minutes | Total Hours: 56:42 |
| Comments: 4 wolf-eels | ||
| Dive # 105 | Date: August 2, 1997. | Location: Renate Reef |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: overcast |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 40' | PSI Used: 1700 psi air |
| Max depth: 83 feet | Time: 45 minutes | Total Hours: 56:03 |
| Comments: More ratfish, lots of surge - almost like flying..... | ||
| Dive # 104 | Date: August 2, 1997. | Location: Tyler Rocks |
| Purpose: | Access: boat | Weather: overcast |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 40' | PSI Used: 2100 psi air |
| Max depth: 135 feet | Time: 32 minutes | Total Hours: 55:18 |
| Comments: Ratfish, HUGE yelloweye rockfish, nudibranchs, fish everywhere, rockfish, greenlings, scallops. | ||
| Dive # 103 | Date: July 20, 1997. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1000 psi air |
| Max depth: 50 feet | Time: 25 minutes | Total Hours: 54:46 |
| Comments: Decorated warbonnet, octopus, neat crab. Suit valve stuck open - no fun! | ||
| Dive # 102 | Date: July 20, 1997. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 800 psi air |
| Max depth: 71 feet | Time: 18 minutes | Total Hours: 54:21 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 101 | Date:July 13, 1997. | Location: Keystone |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1000 psi air |
| Max depth: 52 feet | Time: 30 minutes | Total Hours: 54:03 |
| Comments: Couple of grunt sculpins, buffalo sculpin, lots of octopus! Zillions of people, current picking up at end of jetty, lingcod. Lots of baby shrimp hopping about in 25' of water. | ||