Technical Scuba Diving
Intro After initially finding and identifying the Bearcat, I returned with Drew Wilson to conduct a second dive to get photos for a model of this very nice aircraft wreck. The resulting photogrammetry model won the Underwater Photographer of the Year Award for the Wreck Category in 2023. A while after that Drew surprised me [...]
I am very honored to be awarded the Winner in the Wreck Category for the 2023 Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) contest. The "photo" that won is a screen capture of the final photogrammetry model I built of the F8F-1 Bearcat that sits 230 feet deep off Point Loma, California. To date, there have [...]
Intro I published a Top 10 Diving Recap in 2020 and then again in 2021. This year I am making it a "Top 10 Dives and Projects" list since quite a bit of my diving this year has been working on more longer-term projects that involve multiple dives on the same wreck. It has been [...]
Intro I first dove the Bearcat back in June 2022 and it is an amazing wreck. It is very rare to find an almost completely intact single engine airplane wreck. When I first dove it, I was concentrating on getting photos for identification and documentation and not for building a photogrammetry model. I was alone [...]
Original post is here: F8F-1 Bearcat (Point Loma, CA -- 230 fsw) When we first found the wreck and identified the airplane as a F8F-1, we started working to identify the specific aircraft. In the post, we stated that we had "high confidence," based upon some specific characteristics of the wreck site, that we though [...]
Background We have located the wreck of a rare F8F-1 Bearcat airplane deep in the waters off of Point Loma, California. This post details the discovery of the wreck, identifying the type of airplane, and background information on the F8F Bearcat. While we haven’t yet conducted a follow-up dive to confirm the identity via a [...]
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