Technical Scuba Diving
Background I had been to Osborne Bank once before in 2020 and really enjoyed the dive and wanted to return. I finally got a chance when Anton had arranged a trip with Danny at Triton Diving Charters. Osborn Bank is a very picturesque formation a few miles outside Santa Barbara Island in the Channel Islands. [...]
Introduction Sometimes readers only see the big successes and don't realize that we do a fair number of dives that don't result in finding a new airplane. We have been diving targets in search for the Ables S-3 Viking for quite some time. We recently conducted some additional Iver3 AUV scanning with UCSD on board [...]
Introduction There is an engine block off the West End of Anacapa Island near Cat Rock that has been dove many times but, as far as I know, never been conclusively identified. It reminds me of the Atlas engines on other typical early-to-mid century fishing vessels such as the Nightingale, the New Saturnia, the Vashon, [...]
Introduction Exactly 57 years ago today (November 25th, 1968), nine people died during the tragic sinking of the M/VTriple Crown.... It was 3:45am with winds at 30 knots and gusting. The ocean was a cold 57 degrees and tumultuous with a 10 foot swell from the west crossing with a 3-5 foot surface wave from [...]
As part of our search to find the Ables' Viking, we had a bunch of targets to dive (shown in the diagram below). On previous dives, we had identified a Wing Section (green pin in the diagram) that might be from the S-3 Viking and a debris field of a WW II Airplane (one of [...]
Introduction A while ago (Jan 2025), Danny Graham and I went out on the Triton in an attempt to find the tail section of a F6F Hellcat Drone that we had first dove back in 2024. I dropped in on that target and only found the original wreck debris that we had already found. Oh [...]
Introduction As part of our project to find the Ables Viking, we did some AUV scanning with UCSD/Scripps and one of the targets identified was what looked to be a debris field. A diagram of the possible targets is shown below. The initial search grid was about 1 square kilometer and was based on a [...]
Introduction On June 8, 2025, there was a tragic and fatal airplane accident in the ocean 3 miles off Point Loma, California. A twin engine Cessna 414 had problems almost immediately after takeoff. According to recordings with the tower, the pilot was having trouble and struggling to maintain altitude. The tower was directing him to [...]
(Lead Photo Credit : Ben Lair) Introduction This was my last dive in Malin Head and it proved to be a great one. The U-2511 was a Type XXI submarine that was built near the end of WW II. But -- that alone doesn't make it special. What makes this submarine special is that it [...]
(Lead Photo Credit: Ben Lair) Introduction The SS Justicia is one of the three most popular wrecks in Malin Head, Ireland (the others being the HMS Audacious and the SS Empire Heritage). She is also the second largest ship sank by enemy action in WW 1. The only ship bigger that sank during WW 1 [...]
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