Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Dive 67 - Ship Rock - Catalina Island, CA

We've been wanting to do a dive hear for a while, ever since we dove Eagles Reef and they showed us the pinnacle that is Ship Rock.  It's mainly for advanced divers and need at least decent conditions as the pinnacle is somewhat of a distance from the shore.

It was chamber day, so the boat was filled with real divers.  On top of that, swells were minimal, maybe 2 foot tops, but mostly 1 foot.  This was finally our chance.

It was as cool dive, but didn't live up to my hopes.  Visibility ranged from 10 to 20 feet, but mostly stayed around 10.  Surge got pretty strong near the top and with the lower visibility you couldn't really see it as an underwater pinnacle, just looked like another dive site on this dive.

There were some really fun moments, we saw several Sea Lions underwater, one of whom did a show for us.  Jenni also spotted a beautiful Horn Shark that I saw later only as a photo.  Jenni also said she watched a Sea Lion follow me for some time without me realizing it.  Pretty funny.

Overall, fun, but I look forward to going back as I'm convinced we didn't see Ship Rock for all of it's glory.