11.16.10
Time: 10:19am
Buddy: Jenni Wilson-Cooper, Mike Kelly
Depth: 106ft
Bottom Time: 45 minutes
Vis: 20ft
Temp: 55°
Notes:
Met up with Mike Kelly, our friend from Beach Cities Scuba in Newport Beach. This was a Tuesday morning dive that we've been talking about doing for quite some time. Mike has Tuesdays off and I work 1:30pm to 10pm on Tuesdays.
We had hoped to do 2 dives, 1 at La Jolla Shores and 1 at La Jolla cove, but we were all running late and only had time for 1 dive.
It was a very nice dive, we met a couple other divers that came with us. They were nice and good to dive with as they were experienced but slow and cautious. We started the dive swimming out about 1/2 a mile then dropped down at about 30 feet. This was directly in front of the main drop off a La Jolla Shores. It drops steep from about 30 feet down to a valley that runs to something like 2500ft. We went to 106 feet and stopped.
There were many large crabs down there and some wild sea anemones. We stayed that deep for about 5 minutes and then went up to about 60 feet where there was a rock/reef about 40 feet long. We hung out there for a bit and looked at fish. There was a fun rock fish hiding as they always do.
We did an underwater swim all of the way back to the shore until we were in about 4 feet of water. We saw a couple of small string rays, a favorite of mine. About 10 minutes before the end of the dive the two guys we met parted ways to surface and swim back because one of them was out of air.
Overall a great dive. VERY cold, this actually prompted us to go buy some thicker under layers so we can dive in winter.
