Technical Scuba Diving
Intro This will be my 6th "Top 10 Dives & Projects" list since I started the tradition in 2020. It will always be tough to top 2023 which included diving in some of the most remote places on the planet (Antartica and Bikini Atoll) and also the pinnacle of wreck diving (IMO), the HMHS Britannic. [...]
Introduction Sometimes readers only see the big successes and don't realize that we do a fair number of dives that don't result in finding a new airplane. We have been diving targets in search for the Ables S-3 Viking for quite some time. We recently conducted some additional Iver3 AUV scanning with UCSD on board [...]
Background NB: This post was written a while ago and we have made more progress so I wanted to get this published before I publish some additional updates. 🙂 We have been searching for a S-3 Viking for years and recently conducted two days of searching with UCSD/Scripps using their Iver3 AUV and then did [...]
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 [...]
Background For close to a decade for Tyler and over 5 years for me, we have been trying to find a S-3 Viking that crashed off Point Loma, California in the late 1970s. The project got started when Tyler was contacted by the daughter of the pilot Kenneth Ables whose body was never found. We [...]
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