Technical Scuba Diving
After the dive on the Pipe Horse last week, we went to go look for some new targets. Tyler had a few areas to scan and we found something very promising: Now that looks like something worth diving! The problem is that we are in winter in Southern California and conditions can be completely unpredictable. [...]
This is another structure that Tyler had mentioned a while ago that has been on my list to go explore. Tyler and some dive buddies had first found and dove the target back in 2007/2008 but didn't have great visibility and I doubt that anybody has been back since then. The target is located relatively [...]
Diving on deep wrecks can be very rewarding, but it can also very boring during deco. Sometimes you can do your decompression on a wall or reef that is nearby but that is not very often. Most often, you are just hanging around a down line or anchor line "watching the blue go by." For [...]
Introduction This story originates with the mysterious sinking of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) east of Cape Cod on April 10th, 1963 and ends with a deep dive on a piece of submarine safety history off the coast of San Diego, California with a detour to Morro Bay Maritime Museum in-between. It is [...]
Intro Tyler and I had heard about a Hellcat that crashed off Laguna Beach but had never found it or dove it. It was originally located by Gary Fabian and the first divers on the wreck were Steve Lawson and Chris Gilmartin but the location was never published. It is a relatively unknown site and [...]
The B-36 Peacemaker The B-36 "Peacemaker" is an enormous airplane that was designed and built by Convair. I've always thought it was an interesting moniker to be called the "Peacemaker" since it was built the be the first bomber capable of delivering any of the nuclear weapons in the massive US arsenal from inside the [...]
This was my first dive in 2022. I had planned on doing more research to identify the wreck before publishing but I have quite a few other projects I'm working on so I decided to publish it without an ID. I was with Ray and Kyaa on the Sundiver Express for my first dive of [...]
My wife and I went tp Kona, Hawaii for ten days on our first "real" vacation since Covid started in March 2020. We wore "double masks" and flew United direct from LAX to KOA and felt relatively safe. We have been back for five days and neither of us has any symptoms so I'm hoping [...]
Backstory As mentioned in my previous post, Kona is not exactly a hotbed for wreck diving. However, if there is a wreck to be found, I will definitely go searching for it. While on my second day of diving, I was talking about my passion for wreck diving and Hailey from Kona Dive Company had [...]
Background I just got back from a vacation with my wife to Kona, Hawaii. I spent a few days doing some "fun diving" in a wetsuit (first time in two years) and a single AL80 tank (can't remember the last time I did that). Most people dive in Kona for the amazing critters and endemic [...]
Wrecked in my rEvo 