Earl once again took Ed, Matt and myself out and then made us jump off his boat miles from shore.... since we are divers this is a good thing! 
Sunday was an absolutely perfect day. First dive was on the submarine L-8, which was intentionally sunk by the US Navy in a torpedo test ( http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/l-8-dat.htm ). The max depth was 114 ft with a bottom temp 63 degrees! This was my first time on the wreck, but everyone had always told me how bad the vis usually is (it even says that on the link above), and generally acted like it wasn't that great a dive. Well, not today! Up top the vis was a good 25 feet, and even down at the bottom the vis was probably still a good 15. The wreck itself was also really cool. Matt and I were paired up for the dive and we managed to cover the whole length of the sub. I did it on nitrox, Matt did a bit of deco to match my profile using air. Earl says he saw a really big tail disappearing out of sight at one point. He never saw the whole animal, but from his description it sounds like it had to be a fairly large shark of some kind.
Second dive was on the stern of the Black Point ( http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/blackpoint-dat.htm ), the ship sunk by the U-853 in WWII. Vis on this dive was around 20 ft. The wreck was loaded with fish including lots of big congers, and quite a few big winter flounder hanging out in the sand around the edge of the wreck.
Sunday was an absolutely perfect day. First dive was on the submarine L-8, which was intentionally sunk by the US Navy in a torpedo test ( http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/l-8-dat.htm ). The max depth was 114 ft with a bottom temp 63 degrees! This was my first time on the wreck, but everyone had always told me how bad the vis usually is (it even says that on the link above), and generally acted like it wasn't that great a dive. Well, not today! Up top the vis was a good 25 feet, and even down at the bottom the vis was probably still a good 15. The wreck itself was also really cool. Matt and I were paired up for the dive and we managed to cover the whole length of the sub. I did it on nitrox, Matt did a bit of deco to match my profile using air. Earl says he saw a really big tail disappearing out of sight at one point. He never saw the whole animal, but from his description it sounds like it had to be a fairly large shark of some kind.
Second dive was on the stern of the Black Point ( http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/blackpoint-dat.htm ), the ship sunk by the U-853 in WWII. Vis on this dive was around 20 ft. The wreck was loaded with fish including lots of big congers, and quite a few big winter flounder hanging out in the sand around the edge of the wreck.
