Technical Scuba Diving
Background Justin Judd, Ben Lair, and I were out for a day of diving in San Diego with Lora & Chris on the Marissa. We had planned a couple of exploratory dives on "deep-ish" targets that Tyler Stalter had. The first was very promising. It looked to me like a crane. It had a huge [...]
A tragic day August 24th, 1943 was a beautiful, clear, and typical sunny day in San Diego. US Navy radio man third class Richard Harold Moore's wife had arrived a few days earlier and they were on their delayed honeymoon. Everything should have been right in Richard's world at 10:30am that day, but it was [...]
Background The TBM Avenger in San Diego is an iconic dive. It is deep (255 feet) and is very rarely dived. The airplane itself is relatively intact. One of the crew died during the accident so it is also really important to respect the dive site. The plan is to dive the wreck with Ben [...]
This P-38 crashed during a training flight near Torrey Pines State Beach in May 1943. There were three planes engaging in a practice attack drill when one of them had the right wing hit the surface of the water, damage the prop and then he tried to limp home on the remaining engine. However, the [...]
I've always loved the F-4 Phantom. The F-4 was a "do-it-all" interceptor jet. It was adopted by the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. It was used by the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels. It entered service in 1961 and flew extensively in Vietnam and was a major part of US military [...]
After diving the USS Hogan, we decided to investigate a potential new site that Tyler had coordinates for. The depth sonar showed a blip so Tyler put on his doubles for a quick look. It turns out it was a large "mushroom" anchor. Oh well. We then motored to a site where a Corsair was [...]
Wrecked in my rEvo 