Technical Scuba Diving
I joined divers Steve Lawson and Chris Gilmartin for a memorable dive before storms hit Southern California. We discovered a new shipwreck, identified as a recent fishing vessel, and an intriguing underwater tower. Both dives yielded valuable insights and captured images for further exploration and future dives once conditions improve.
Background A number of years ago, Tyler and I saw a drop-camera video of what appears to be a radial airplane engine and information that it was taken somewhere in Santa Monica Bay -- but we didn't have a location. That engine and video was located by Harry Davis Jr who recently passed away but [...]
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 [...]
Background After I dove the Boys Club to do the final identification, we had a few other targets to look at. One of them was a couple miles away and labeled on Ray's system as "Wilshire" so I figured I should check it out and document it. I got down on the wreck and it [...]
Background Due to all my travel and target diving in San Diego, it had been a LONG time since I had gone diving with Ray & Kyaa @ Sundiver. We arranged a day to go dive some targets in Santa Monica Bay that Tyler had and then also check out a few things Ray had [...]
As the saying goes, "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." The Lemon As I wrote about in my previous post, the plan was to spend 4 days diving the amazing USS Oriskany aircraft carrier off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. I was going to be diving with Ben Lair and Justin Judd and we [...]
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 [...]
Background It was my second dive of the day aboard the Sundiver Express with Kyaa (more on the first dive -- which will be a whopper -- in another post). I had heard about the "Rigger 1" or "Rigger" or "Rigger One" a few times but didn't really know much about it so I wasn't [...]
Intro / The Crash I'm not sure what string of expletives test pilot Leo J. "Pete" Colapietro yelled when he bailed out of his F4D at 650mph over the ocean -- but I do know what he said from his hospital bed during his recovery: "It was one climax after another, after that." Leo J. [...]
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