Technical Scuba Diving
This is another structure that Tyler had mentioned a while ago that has been on my list to go explore. Tyler and some dive buddies had first found and dove the target back in 2007/2008 but didn't have great visibility and I doubt that anybody has been back since then. The target is located relatively [...]
A few months ago, Tyler and I were out with Lora on the Marissa and she said to us "hey, have I ever told you about the wing section that somebody found?" Tyler and I looked at each other with some confusion and jointly say "uhhhh, no!" So off we went to go find this [...]
Background During my ill-fated trip to Bikini Atoll, we ended up diving quite a few WW II airplanes that had been dumped near Kwajalein Atoll. Tyler and I had seen some ROV footage of something similar off Point Loma and we decided to charter the Marissa with Lora and Chris to investigate and perform a [...]
MFV High Seas History After the dive on the Unknown Sailboat, we had a decent surface interval and motored a short distance to the MFV (motor fishing vessel) High Seas. The High Seas has an interesting history. It started life in the Navy as the YP 621 (yard patrol) and was built in my "hometown" [...]
The plan was to locate and dive a(nother) "virgin" Corsair that Tyler Statler had some coordinates for that is about 230' deep. We motored around on the Marissa and couldn't locate it on the sonar system. It obviously hadn't been moved -- but it was definitely playing hide-and-go-seek. 🙂 After all, a Corsair is a [...]
Wrecked in my rEvo 