The Spanish Shawl was my favorite nudibranch before I ever dove in California. I’d seen photos of the Shawl and the colors were just ridiculous. It didn’t even seem real. With no idea how common they were out here, I probably did something embarrassing like march on the dive boat for the first time loudly proclaiming [...]
2012 was a hell of a year. I settled in San Diego and got to know a ton of cool people. I was fortunate to travel to some really amazing places. Of course, there was quite a bit of diving. I saw some San Diego sunrises… And some San Diego sunsets :) I [...]
People ask me all the time why I dive here in California. Maybe they’ve gone for a dive or a snorkel in Hawaii or the Caribbean, and they know the water here is so much colder and darker and less clear. I’ve lost count of how many times they’ve asked, incredulously, “Is there anything to [...]
On Saturday I got out for a much-needed fun dive in the Point Loma kelp. It felt like I hadn’t been in the water in a while, and it showed in my more-moronic-than-usual navigational skills. Mat and Nick were doing training dives for their rEvo rebreather class, and my initial intention was to watch them [...]
Yesterday, Marissa crew and friends went out to the Point Loma kelp beds to clean up the wrecked sailboat. Armed with lift bags, they were able to remove a ton of hazmat and debris from the sea floor, including sails, batteries, engines, and a bunch of trash. The vessel Pants: not an integral part [...]
Yeah, I usually dive. But it was a sunny day, and the shallow water was clear. And who wants to put on a drysuit and carry all that heavy scuba equipment across the beach in the hot sun? Not me, not yesterday. But the leopard sharks have moved in at La Jolla. And I had [...]
One of my (many) favorite things about scuba diving in San Diego is the constant turnover of animal populations. I’ve lived and dove here for less than a year, and already I’ve been witness to the market squid run and the bat ray invasion. I was there when the juvenile rockfish moved in at La Jolla Shores, [...]
Tuesday evening I met up with the Power Scuba folks for a recon shore dive at Marine Street Beach in La Jolla. Someone got the fine idea that this site might be a good spot for lobster diving when the season opens in the winter, so we went down to check it out. It was [...]
