Technical Scuba Diving
Background We are relatively confident that we have located and identified the wreck of the Mercator in Santa Monica Bay. At this point, we believe that we are the first people to dive and identify the wreck. After I did an initial dive to investigate and document the wreck and a second dive with Tyler [...]
Tyler Stalter and I are very confident (99+%) that we have identified the origins and name of the un-identified wreck site that I dove back in July 2020 with Ray Arntz & Kyaa Heller on the Sundiver. We believe that it is the fishing vessel Nightingale that sank on Sept 9, 1930. The identification is [...]
History The Olympic II started life as the Star of France which was a 258' long, three-mast sailing ship built in 1877 by Harland and Wolff of Belfast, Ireland. I won't detail the entire history since the CA Wreck Divers site does an excellent job of that. Interestingly enough, just like the Santa Clara ship [...]
Background The Ace 1 name can be a little confusing. It is also known as the "Upside Down Wreck" or by the original ship's name which was the LCI 735. There is also the "A.C.E." wreck off Dana Point which is a fishing vessel which has a similar name but is completely unrelated. So, when [...]
After we dove the Santa Clara, we headed north to the Jenny Lynne. In many ways, it is the exact opposite of the Santa Clara wreck. Instead of a disintegrated, wooden ship that sunk many decades ago, it is a steel hulled fishing vessel that sank in 2003 and is largely intact. Background The Jenny [...]
Cover Photo of me at Caisson #2 by Ben Liar There are interesting (and somewhat funny) stories about the "Caissons" that are outside San Pedro harbor. First, to dispel a possible misunderstanding, these are not "real" caissons (definition: a large watertight chamber, open at the bottom, from which the water is kept out by air [...]
