Technical Scuba Diving
Background This is a report on the results from the second dive in my project to build a photogrammetry model of the Yukon which is about 105 feet deep off Mission Bay, San Diego. The first dive resulted in about the back 30-40% of the stern completed. For this dive, I had planned to map [...]
Background Due to all my travel and target diving in San Diego, it had been a LONG time since I had gone diving with Ray & Kyaa @ Sundiver. We arranged a day to go dive some targets in Santa Monica Bay that Tyler had and then also check out a few things Ray had [...]
Background Last year, as part of my learning progress of building photogrammetry models, I decided to build a model of the guns (whose barrels are fake) and a model of the prop (which is also not the real prop) on the HMCS Yukon wreck in San Diego. They were well contained projects and helped me [...]
There is an old saying in diving -- "plan your dive and dive your plan." We will only have four days of diving (conditions permitting), but I've got quite the "hit list" of locations to go see inside the wreck below the flight deck: Command Information Center Engine Room #2 (and possibly #1?) Brig (aka [...]
Background Tyler and I got a tip and GPS location from some friends at Scripps who are also involved with Project Recover. They said there was a wreck near Scripps Canyon that they found and they had a good side scan image. Side scan image from Scripps / Project Recover When I saw the side [...]
This is an update to a post back in September 2021 about a "WW II Airplane Junkyard" off of Point Loma. As we have been looking for new targets in the south Point Loma area, we are "plagued" by finding and diving more dumped airplanes. They show up on the sonar similar to real airplanes [...]
One of the benefits of going on a wreck expedition with Aron and The Dirty Dozen is that you sometimes get to dive wrecks that are either not well known or not dived very often -- or both. Such was the case when we had the opportunity to dive a wreck that was located relatively [...]
The Amatsu is the longest wreck in Micronesia (502 feet) which is saying a lot given all the cargo ships and oil tankers that sank in that area during WW II. Ship type similar to the Amatsu Maru She was obviously a highly prized and prioritized target during Operation Desecrate 1 since she was large [...]
Intro I had already booked and paid for my March 2022 to trip to Palau when Aron Arngrimsson from The Dirty Dozen Expeditions reached out to me and said that they were organizing an inaugural expedition to Palau and asked if I wanted to go. I was having troubles getting wreck dives scheduled for my [...]
Original Post is here: P-38 Lightning "Skip Bombing Mission (Solana Beach, CA -- 180 fsw) Based on the location and type of airplane and the fact that it was largely intact, we made an initial identification that we found a P-38 with BuNo 42-66617. We contacted the Air Force Historical Research Agency to get a [...]