Technical Scuba Diving
Intro This will be my 6th "Top 10 Dives & Projects" list since I started the tradition in 2020. It will always be tough to top 2023 which included diving in some of the most remote places on the planet (Antartica and Bikini Atoll) and also the pinnacle of wreck diving (IMO), the HMHS Britannic. [...]
Background I had been to Osborne Bank once before in 2020 and really enjoyed the dive and wanted to return. I finally got a chance when Anton had arranged a trip with Danny at Triton Diving Charters. Osborn Bank is a very picturesque formation a few miles outside Santa Barbara Island in the Channel Islands. [...]
Introduction Sometimes readers only see the big successes and don't realize that we do a fair number of dives that don't result in finding a new airplane. We have been diving targets in search for the Ables S-3 Viking for quite some time. We recently conducted some additional Iver3 AUV scanning with UCSD on board [...]
Introduction For a long time, I held off getting a fisheye lens since I mainly photograph wrecks and really appreciate the "straight lines" that a rectilinear lens provides. But, there are advantages to a fisheye and I finally took the plunge but with a very vintage lens adapted to a modern Sony mirrorless camera. The [...]
Background NB: This post was written a while ago and we have made more progress so I wanted to get this published before I publish some additional updates. 🙂 We have been searching for a S-3 Viking for years and recently conducted two days of searching with UCSD/Scripps using their Iver3 AUV and then did [...]
Introduction There is an engine block off the West End of Anacapa Island near Cat Rock that has been dove many times but, as far as I know, never been conclusively identified. It reminds me of the Atlas engines on other typical early-to-mid century fishing vessels such as the Nightingale, the New Saturnia, the Vashon, [...]
Introduction Exactly 57 years ago today (November 25th, 1968), nine people died during the tragic sinking of the M/VTriple Crown.... It was 3:45am with winds at 30 knots and gusting. The ocean was a cold 57 degrees and tumultuous with a 10 foot swell from the west crossing with a 3-5 foot surface wave from [...]
As part of our search to find the Ables' Viking, we had a bunch of targets to dive (shown in the diagram below). On previous dives, we had identified a Wing Section (green pin in the diagram) that might be from the S-3 Viking and a debris field of a WW II Airplane (one of [...]
Introduction A while ago (Jan 2025), Danny Graham and I went out on the Triton in an attempt to find the tail section of a F6F Hellcat Drone that we had first dove back in 2024. I dropped in on that target and only found the original wreck debris that we had already found. Oh [...]
Introduction As part of our project to find the Ables Viking, we did some AUV scanning with UCSD/Scripps and one of the targets identified was what looked to be a debris field. A diagram of the possible targets is shown below. The initial search grid was about 1 square kilometer and was based on a [...]
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