Technical Scuba Diving
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 [...]
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 [...]
Background This is a wreck that Tyler discovered off Point Loma about three (?) years ago so it isn't anything new. We went to dive it after the dive on the unidentified object. I had never been on this wreck and figured it might make sense to build a photogrammetry model for others to use [...]
Background I've got a few posts about local dives that have been on hold for a while as I was preparing for and going on my trip to Bikini Atoll (more posts on that coming up)! This one is about something that is very weird that we dove as the first dive on the morning [...]
Background We initially were doing some "round robin" diving on targets back in late October 2022 based upon a long list of targets that Tyler had. We found an upside down aircraft that we believed to be a TBM, but we were not sure if it was a dumped airplane -- of which there are [...]
Intro I first wrote about the P-38 in Torrey Pines back in mid-2020. It is a well known wreck that was discovered a number of years ago and has been deteriorating due to multiple factors. After our dive on the deeper P-38 in Solana Beach, we were headed to this wreck. Since I started building [...]
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 We interrupt our regularly scheduled Antarctica posts to bring you (finally) some new post about rusted metal! Tyler and I found and potentially identified a new TBF about a year ago. We did two dives on the wreck and we had pretty bad visibility on each of those dives. I have a running "to-do" [...]
Background We have had absolutely horrible conditions since Christmas. Between the large swells, wind, rain and resulting run-off, diving has been non-existintent for weeks. I snuck in a couple dives to teach a photogrammetry class, but that is about it until this week. Dive 1 - 275' Target (South of Pt Loma) Tyler found a [...]
Intro The adventure continues! Here is a snapshot of the project status after Dive #7 and before this dive. Obviously, still missing a few areas on the starboard amidships to hull area. After the results from dive #7 (Cave Line & Cookies), I had one more possible way to align photos for the stern section. [...]
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