Diving Deep from the beach in So Cal

[Akimbo]

La Jolla Shores/Scripps Canyon is an excellent location to expand your deep diving skills from the beach. The swim is short to the canyon drop-off. I can’t remember the landmarks for shore entry but it isn’t hard to find. Most of the dive shops can tell you. The bottom in the canyon quickly turns to mud so you will silt-up if your buoyancy skills need work.

 

[Hatul]

La Jolla Canyon from Vallecitos and Redondo Canyon at Veterans Park in Redondo. Parking is often a problem in La Jolla and it's a longer swim but there's more to see there.

Redondo is mostly beach sand but occassionally you do see some interesting sea life and parking at Vets Park is metered, bring lots of quarters. You swim on your back to past the end of the pier (which is a bit north) and descend. It's a fairly easy dive to the depths and drops off gradually. Circle around and come back along the bottom and you will decompress on the way back. Check the swells before you drive there, the beach faces west and drops off quickly.

The Dive Vets is a club that does night dives there every Wednesday.


Adam

 

[aquaregia]

Why Advanced Trimix so soon? I've always been of the opinion that if you have to work to get the required dives you probably don't have the experience that they really want you to have.

Monterey has a lovely place to do 100' dives, but I imagine that's even less affordable than rides to the Yukon

 

[Ulfhedinn]

Its true I don't have 100's of dives under my belt and I don't plan to dive on Trimex anytime soon. But I can be a little type A and I enjoy learning. I like to look at long term goals through the the action of short term goals. I enjoy diving for diving's sake but I also want to check out wrecks at 100' plus plus the science of diving on Helium interests me. I have noticed that some people dive 32/30 in the 1-30M range for reasons they state are reduction of physiological stress and eliminate narc. I don't know if that is true but I would sure like to find out.

Why Advanced Trimix so soon? I've always been of the opinion that if you have to work to get the required dives you probably don't have the experience that they really want you to have.

Monterey has a lovely place to do 100' dives, but I imagine that's even less affordable than rides to the Yukon

 

[aquaregia]

Its true I don't have 100's of dives under my belt and I don't plan to dive on Trimex anytime soon. But I can be a little type A and I enjoy learning. I like to look at long term goals through the the action of short term goals. I enjoy diving for diving's sake but I also want to check out wrecks at 100' plus plus the science of diving on Helium interests me. I have noticed that some people dive 32/30 in the 1-30M range for reasons they state are reduction of physiological stress and eliminate narc. I don't know if that is true but I would sure like to find out.

Cool, I'm fairly similar. I'm academically interested in gas mixes (degree in phys chem) and the comparison of theory with personal observation.

You might want to look into a Fundies course or something. It has a lot of content, especially kinesthetically, and if your motivation is learning/coaching rather than certification it might be a good fit. It's expensive and allows you to do nothing more (actually in some ways less) than what an AOW cert does, but the content is very good.