Technical Scuba Diving
Intro Tyler and I had been planning a trip to the Coronado Island with Lora at Marissa Charters for a very long time. It was deferred at least 2-3 times due to weather, unplanned trips, etc. We finally got down there in early February 2026. Tyler had a friend who had seen an airplane wreck [...]
Introduction We first located and identified the P-38 off Solana Beach back in 2022 and I published a series of posts about the wreck, including a "basic" photogrammetry model. I've been back a couple of times but it was always with a few other divers which makes building a photogrammetry model tough. In that time, [...]
Summary I went diving with Steve Lawson & Chris Gilmartin on their boat right before the rain and storms hit Southern California. It turned out to be my last dive of 2025. We had good weather in the morning but the swell and wind picked up later in the day. We found one new shipwreck [...]
Introduction If you have been following along, we have been trying to find the S-3 Viking that crashed off Point Loma in 1978. A brief rundown of previous posts: Original AUV Search Second AUV Search First Day of Dives - Mystery Plane First Day of Dives - Wing Section Second Day of Dives Third Day [...]
Intro This will be my 6th "Top 10 Dives & Projects" list since I started the tradition in 2020. It will always be tough to top 2023 which included diving in some of the most remote places on the planet (Antartica and Bikini Atoll) and also the pinnacle of wreck diving (IMO), the HMHS Britannic. [...]
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 [...]
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