Technical Scuba Diving
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 [...]
Intro This will be my fourth Top 10 Dive list since I started the tradition in 2020. I honestly thought I would never top 2022 which included wreck diving trips to Croatia & Malta and discovering numerous new wrecks here in Southern California. Happily, I was wrong. 🙂 I'll say it again this year: I [...]
Intro Tyler and I had a few targets that were deep that we wanted to check out and we had a weather window recently to go look at them. We headed out on Dec 11, 2023 on the Marissa with Lora, Chris, Captain & Scout. Tyler had a friend who had located an airplane during [...]
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 [...]
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