Technical Scuba Diving
Summary I went diving with Steve Lawson & Chris Gilmartin on their boat right before the rain and storms hit Southern California. It turned out to be my last dive of 2025. We had good weather in the morning but the swell and wind picked up later in the day. We found one new shipwreck [...]
Introduction If you have been following along, we have been trying to find the S-3 Viking that crashed off Point Loma in 1978. A brief rundown of previous posts: Original AUV Search Second AUV Search First Day of Dives - Mystery Plane First Day of Dives - Wing Section Second Day of Dives Third Day [...]
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 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 [...]
Introduction After we deployed the AUV with UCSD/Scripps, we had a few targets to dive in our quest to find the S-3 Viking. We conducted two dives on 3 October 2025 and this was the second dive (more on the first dive in another post). This target was actually at the very southwest corner of [...]
Introduction On June 8, 2025, there was a tragic and fatal airplane accident in the ocean 3 miles off Point Loma, California. A twin engine Cessna 414 had problems almost immediately after takeoff. According to recordings with the tower, the pilot was having trouble and struggling to maintain altitude. The tower was directing him to [...]
Background Danny Graham, Mike Wynd, and I spent two days at Catalina Island diving targets that Tyler Stalter had given us. As we were searching around and running scans, I noticed a "Wreck" marker on Danny's system and asked him what it was. He said he hadn't dived it yet and it came from another [...]
Intro Tyler had a list of targets that we had looked at earlier this year which resulted in the Hellcat wreck and then also the Squeezer Dredge barge. We had scanned a few others during those trips and put them on the "further investigate" list. Plenty of targets to investigate... (sorry the map is pixelilzed) [...]
Intro Once again, Tyler has hit pay dirt and we have found and identified a previously undiscovered wreck. We had previously gone out diving on the Triton and scanned a lot of targets a month ago and also found a new airplane wreck. We had a very brief weather window during all the recent storms [...]
Summary Tyler "the magician" Stalter has done it once again - we found another airplane wreck based on his bathymetric research. Danny Graham operates the Triton out of Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard and we've been trying for quite some time to do some diving on his boat to go look for new wrecks. We [...]
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