Technical Scuba Diving
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. [...]
Intro When I arrived in Gulen in mid-August, they were having some unseasonably bad wind and rain which prevented going out to the wrecks (which are much more exposed) so we did some dives at local "signature" spots. For anybody else going to Gulen, I'll document a couple of them and post some photos. Note [...]
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 / Background We initially dove this P38 in 2022. Lora @ Marissa Charters recently ran a trip to visit this deeper P38 off Solana Beach and then a shallower but more visited P3-8 off Torrey Pines. It was a "double P-38 day." I had a very specific dive plan since I wanted to be [...]
Intro Deception Island was our last stop...upon reflection, it really tied everything together. I will start with a small detour and add an interesting twist and a bit of symmetry. By chance, literally 48 hours after I landed back home from Antarctica, I was fortunate to see Mensun Bound speak at the Adventurer's Club in [...]
Intro After our adventures crossing the Antarctic Circle and at Detaille Island, we headed North with haste. The ocean was rough enough that once again, the portholes on my lower cabin were closed for the journey. After a rocky might at sea, we had a leisurely morning as we continued to our next destination, Fournier [...]
Intro The Hondius idled slowly towards the Antarctic Circle on 22 March as passengers got going with their fill of coffee and tea. Everybody was excited to be traversing south of the Antarctic Circle. Theoretically, when you are north of this imaginary circle, you are in the "Southern Temperate Zone" and it isn't until you [...]
Introduction After our stop at Mikkelsen Harbor, we headed south to Lemaire Channel. The channel is a narrow gap between an island and the mainland of Antarctica and is very majestic and impressive. It is little less than 7 miles long but only 1700 yards wide at the narrowest point. In fact, we arrived at [...]
Intro After our adventures at Devil Island and Brown Bluff, we went for a long boat ride up and around the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula towards Mikkelsen Harbor which is on the south side of Trinity Island on the northwest side of the peninsula. The originl of the name Mikkelsen Harbor comes from Peder [...]
Background The next stop on our Antarctica trip was slated to be the only stop on the mainland of the 7th continent. All other other stops were islands around the mainland. Usually, after a dive, the divers would join the land team but sometimes that doesn't happen for various reasons. Therefore, I wanted to be [...]
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