After dropping off a new buoy at the Marineland platform Merry and I headed for Halfway Reef. We usually make two dives when we go out but the conditions allowed only half of that total.
The upper half of the water column was a bit green with just enough visibility to see our anchor chain. The lower half was great. We saw dozens of dead Pyrosoma atlanticum in the sand from twenty feet above.
Halfway through the dive the visibility went south. Swells picked up sand, creating a surge storm that ended the dive. The surface was choppy with an occasional large swell and whitecaps. We cut our losses and went home. We didn't stand half a chance.
Float over the Marineland Platform
Scorpaena guttata, California scorpionfish photobombing
Alloclinus holderi, Island kelpfish
Sebastes caurinus, Copper Rockfish
Clathria Parthena, Red Beard sponge
Polycera tricolor
Diaulula sandiegensis
Triopha catalinae
Cadlina limbaughorum
Peltodoris mullineri
The upper half of the water column was a bit green with just enough visibility to see our anchor chain. The lower half was great. We saw dozens of dead Pyrosoma atlanticum in the sand from twenty feet above.
Halfway through the dive the visibility went south. Swells picked up sand, creating a surge storm that ended the dive. The surface was choppy with an occasional large swell and whitecaps. We cut our losses and went home. We didn't stand half a chance.
Float over the Marineland Platform
Scorpaena guttata, California scorpionfish photobombing
Alloclinus holderi, Island kelpfish
Sebastes caurinus, Copper Rockfish
Clathria Parthena, Red Beard sponge
Polycera tricolor
Diaulula sandiegensis
Triopha catalinae
Cadlina limbaughorum
Peltodoris mullineri
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