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 [...]
Tag: Wreck
Presentation : Deep Wreck Photography
I was contacted earlier this year and asked to give a presentation to the Orange County Underwater Photographic Society on some of the shipwrecks and airplane wrecks in Southern California. Since it was a group of photographers, I developed a presentation about some of the challenges of taking photos on Southern California wreck dives that [...]
Predator Landing Craft (Kona, Hawaii — 90 fsw)
F4D Skyray (Santa Monica Bay, 205 fsw)
Photogrammetry – Part I
Background I don't remember the first time I saw a photogrammetric model of a wreck but I've always been impressed by the technology. In case you don't know what photogrammetry is, I'll give you my simple definition: combine multiple 2D photo images into a 3D model. There is a lot more to it, but that [...]
MFV High Seas, Point Loma (110 fsw)
MFV High Seas History After the dive on the Unknown Sailboat, we had a decent surface interval and motored a short distance to the MFV (motor fishing vessel) High Seas. The High Seas has an interesting history. It started life in the Navy as the YP 621 (yard patrol) and was built in my "hometown" [...]
The “Unknown Sailboat” off Point Loma (205 fsw)
The plan was to locate and dive a(nother) "virgin" Corsair that Tyler Statler had some coordinates for that is about 230' deep. We motored around on the Marissa and couldn't locate it on the sonar system. It obviously hadn't been moved -- but it was definitely playing hide-and-go-seek. 🙂 After all, a Corsair is a [...]