Technical Scuba Diving
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 [...]
Background NB: This post was written a while ago and we have made more progress so I wanted to get this published before I publish some additional updates. 🙂 We have been searching for a S-3 Viking for years and recently conducted two days of searching with UCSD/Scripps using their Iver3 AUV and then did [...]
Introduction After we deployed the AUV with UCSD/Scripps, we had a few targets to dive in our quest to find the S-3 Viking. We conducted two dives on 3 October 2025 and this was the second dive (more on the first dive in another post). This target was actually at the very southwest corner of [...]
Background For close to a decade for Tyler and over 5 years for me, we have been trying to find a S-3 Viking that crashed off Point Loma, California in the late 1970s. The project got started when Tyler was contacted by the daughter of the pilot Kenneth Ables whose body was never found. We [...]
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