Intro I published a Top 10 Diving Recap in 2020 and then again in 2021. This year I am making it a "Top 10 Dives and Projects" list since quite a bit of my diving this year has been working on more longer-term projects that involve multiple dives on the same wreck. It has been [...]
Tag: San Pedro
2021 Diving Recap (Top 10)
Quarry Rock Barge aka Yesteryear (Long Beach — 175 fsw)
Background After we did our dive on the UB-88, we moved to another close-by wreck site that has traditionally gone by the name "Yesteryear." If I remember correctly, according to Ray Arntz, the moniker is based upon what fisherman used to call the site. This specific wreck is a bit of a mystery that we [...]
Runnin’ Down a Dream : USS Vammen (340 fsw) & USS Burns (260 fsw)
UB88 Orthomosaic + 14 Year Retrospective
Background The UB88 team first located and dove the UB88 sub in 2003. They did multiple dives on the wreck and produced both still pictures and videos. At some point, Gary Fabian took frames from the videos shot by John Walker and created a photo mosaic of the wreck: UB88 Sub Photo Mosaic (Copyright 2007 [...]
UB88 Photogrammetry Project – Dive 5 (Forward Section)
The Mercator (Santa Monica Bay, > 130 fsw)
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 [...]
The Nightingale (San Pedro — 145 fsw)
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 [...]
Olympic II (San Pedro, CA — 95′ fsw)
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 [...]