Technical Scuba Diving
I recently got an email from local San Diego diver Todd Baldi asking if I wanted some old slides he had that were taken from the sinking of the Ruby E back in 1989 -- 35 years ago! Well, of course I did! Todd was nice enough to send me the slides and I happened [...]
Intro Tyler Stalter has, once again, located a new wreck and we have a high probability identification. This discovery was part of the Expedition Unknown TV show so we had to keep it under wraps for a little while. The wreck is down near Imperial Beach in relatively shallow water which means that visibility is [...]
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 [...]
Background Santa has come early and Tyler has struck gold once again! We had seen a ROV video taken during a survey but we weren't sure of the location. After a lot of hard work, research, and cross referencing, Tyler had a target for us to go check out. We were pretty sure it was [...]
Intro After Dive 8 in which I had Lauren literally lay down on the Yukon in order to get a point of reference for the photos for the model, I was ready to just give up when that didn't work. I'm not sure what happened with Dive 9 but I think it was so disappointing [...]
Background It is getting to be that time of year where I start writing the posts for dives that I did during the year but never had time to document. I recently saw the articles about the team that found the Skyraider off the coast of Florida (nice job!) and I reminded me about the [...]
Background A couple years ago, Tyler and finally found a helicopter wreck that we had been looking for. It took a lot of detective work and running down a lot of leads before we finally correctly identified it. After we published the story, we were contacted by one of the survivors of the crash, Donald [...]
Background For quite a while now, we have been finding and documenting various "dumped" WW II airplanes off of Point Loma, California. They are Corsairs, TBM/F Avengers, and SBD Dauntless aircraft. The original post back in Sept 2021 and then the follow-on post (Part II and III) in Aug 2022 identified over a dozen of [...]
Intro Calendars and dates are a human construction. We have given meaning and importance to specific dates and sometimes circumstances collide in interesting ways. This is a story that starts on August 24, 1943 -- 80 years ago today -- and involves an interesting connection recently made. Tyler and I have had a longstanding project [...]
I recently gave a presentation about some of the new wrecks that Tyler Stalter and I have located and identified. I also discuss how we find them and how we identify them along with some of the tools like photogrammetry. Below is a PDF of the presentation (I've removed two slides that were animations of [...]
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