FINALLY! It seems apt that this is being published on "Groundhog Day" since it seems like I kept waking up in a loop and diving the same-ole Yukon trying to finish my same-ole model. The model isn't perfect and I faced many, many challenges when trying to build it, but I have what I consider [...]
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New Wreck : F8F-2 Bearcat (Imperial Beach — 60 fsw)
Intro Tyler Stalter has, once again, located a new wreck and we have a high probability identification. This discovery was part of the Expedition Unknown TV show so we had to keep it under wraps for a little while. The wreck is down near Imperial Beach in relatively shallow water which means that visibility is [...]
Expedition Unknown S12 | E8
Intro [NB: I want to set the record straight: Tyler Stalter was the person who came up with the whole idea for this episode and he also found and identified the Bearcat target that we dove during filming. The filming date got moved around and Tyler couldn't participate due to work commitments. We filmed multiple [...]
Diving Deep Targets (Pt Loma — 280 fsw)
Brewster SB2A Buccaneer (Pt Loma — 280 fsw)
Douglas AD-4L Skyraider Photogrammetry Model
Airplane Junkyard Part IV (Pt Loma — 210 fsw)
Background For quite a while now, we have been finding and documenting various "dumped" WW II airplanes off of Point Loma, California. They are Corsairs, TBM/F Avengers, and SBD Dauntless aircraft. The original post back in Sept 2021 and then the follow-on post (Part II and III) in Aug 2022 identified over a dozen of [...]
SBD-3 Dauntless (Revisited) — 80 Years Later
Intro Calendars and dates are a human construction. We have given meaning and importance to specific dates and sometimes circumstances collide in interesting ways. This is a story that starts on August 24, 1943 -- 80 years ago today -- and involves an interesting connection recently made. Tyler and I have had a longstanding project [...]