Technical Scuba Diving
Background I had been to Osborne Bank once before in 2020 and really enjoyed the dive and wanted to return. I finally got a chance when Anton had arranged a trip with Danny at Triton Diving Charters. Osborn Bank is a very picturesque formation a few miles outside Santa Barbara Island in the Channel Islands. [...]
Introduction There is an engine block off the West End of Anacapa Island near Cat Rock that has been dove many times but, as far as I know, never been conclusively identified. It reminds me of the Atlas engines on other typical early-to-mid century fishing vessels such as the Nightingale, the New Saturnia, the Vashon, [...]
Introduction Exactly 57 years ago today (November 25th, 1968), nine people died during the tragic sinking of the M/VTriple Crown.... It was 3:45am with winds at 30 knots and gusting. The ocean was a cold 57 degrees and tumultuous with a 10 foot swell from the west crossing with a 3-5 foot surface wave from [...]
Introduction A while ago (Jan 2025), Danny Graham and I went out on the Triton in an attempt to find the tail section of a F6F Hellcat Drone that we had first dove back in 2024. I dropped in on that target and only found the original wreck debris that we had already found. Oh [...]
Introduction I can finally report: On November 7th, 2024 we successfully dove the US Coast Guard Cutter McCulloch. I am confident that we are the first team to dive the wreck. NOAA / USCG found the wreck in 2016 and there have been a few videos released from ROV footage, but I haven't seen any [...]
Background Danny Graham, Mike Wynd, and I spent two days at Catalina Island diving targets that Tyler Stalter had given us. As we were searching around and running scans, I noticed a "Wreck" marker on Danny's system and asked him what it was. He said he hadn't dived it yet and it came from another [...]
Summary Back in January, we were on the D/V Triton and found an airplane wreck from a target Tyler found. We preliminarily identified it as a Hellcat and likely a drone (F6F-xK). This past week, we went back to the site in order to (a) better document it and (b) find the tail section and [...]
Intro Tyler had a list of targets that we had looked at earlier this year which resulted in the Hellcat wreck and then also the Squeezer Dredge barge. We had scanned a few others during those trips and put them on the "further investigate" list. Plenty of targets to investigate... (sorry the map is pixelilzed) [...]
Intro Once again, Tyler has hit pay dirt and we have found and identified a previously undiscovered wreck. We had previously gone out diving on the Triton and scanned a lot of targets a month ago and also found a new airplane wreck. We had a very brief weather window during all the recent storms [...]
Summary Tyler "the magician" Stalter has done it once again - we found another airplane wreck based on his bathymetric research. Danny Graham operates the Triton out of Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard and we've been trying for quite some time to do some diving on his boat to go look for new wrecks. We [...]
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