Technical Scuba Diving
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 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" [...]
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 [...]
Background Tyler had recently gone out diving with friends for his birthday. While they were heading to the dive site, he saw something on the sonar that looked interesting. After diving their original planned dive site, they jumped in to see what was at the target. They ended up finding a steel hull boat that [...]
Background Sorry about the bastardized Beatles song, but the title of the post was about a recent day diving (Halloween - 31 Oct 2022) and I thought I would do some plagiarization of the famous song. "Woke up, fell out of bedDragged a comb across my headFound my way downstairs and made a mug And [...]
Background Tyler had a few targets that we wanted to look at. They were all in the 170 foot range and so we arranged a day on the Marissa to go take a look. We weren't sure what conditions were going to be like so we had a few different plans but ended up going [...]
Background As part of my "lemonade" week, we were with Lora on the Marissa looking at some targets pretty far south of Point Loma and needed a second dive at a reasonable depth. I had dove the Corsair in that area a while ago and thought it would make a good target for a photogrammetry [...]
This is an update to a post back in September 2021 about a "WW II Airplane Junkyard" off of Point Loma. As we have been looking for new targets in the south Point Loma area, we are "plagued" by finding and diving more dumped airplanes. They show up on the sonar similar to real airplanes [...]
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 [...]