Technical Scuba Diving
Background This is another case where we had seen some ROV footage of a large "yacht-like" vessel and had an approximate location but hadn't been able to pinpoint it. After multiple attempts to locate it, I went with Lora and Chris on the Marissa for another attempt -- but this time we had the sonar [...]
Dive Plan Tyler had been looking at an anomaly in the data for a while but it was pretty deep and looked to be about 50 feet long. He had been planning to dive it for years but it just never worked out....until a couple days ago (15 Nov 2021). We weren't sure what it [...]
Background During my ill-fated trip to Bikini Atoll, we ended up diving quite a few WW II airplanes that had been dumped near Kwajalein Atoll. Tyler and I had seen some ROV footage of something similar off Point Loma and we decided to charter the Marissa with Lora and Chris to investigate and perform a [...]
The Tale of the Tail Code This is a tale of hope, frustration, and persistence during our dives to find and identify a new helicopter wreck off Imperial Beach, California. The final identification was the result of a LOT of research and a somewhat obfuscated tail code that we uncovered on the second dive. We [...]
Background I was out diving with Ben Lair on the Marissa with Lora & Chris yesterday. We had two days of diving planned and we were diving mainly new targets based on some findings and data from Tyler Stalter. On Monday, we dove a helicopter (more on that later) and yet another new "abandoned" airplane [...]
Background We are relatively confident that we have located and identified the wreck of the Mercator in Santa Monica Bay. At this point, we believe that we are the first people to dive and identify the wreck. After I did an initial dive to investigate and document the wreck and a second dive with Tyler [...]
Intro Tyler and I have been searching for new targets on the Marissa recently. This past Friday, we had a dive plan for the day: look at a few targets on the sonar and side-scan, jump in on anything that looked interesting, and then possibly head south to the Missile Tower with the goal of [...]
The plan was to locate and dive a(nother) "virgin" Corsair that Tyler Statler had some coordinates for that is about 230' deep. We motored around on the Marissa and couldn't locate it on the sonar system. It obviously hadn't been moved -- but it was definitely playing hide-and-go-seek. 🙂 After all, a Corsair is a [...]
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