It had been ten months since we last dived Spongehenge at Hermosa Beach Artificial Reef. Storms had knocked over the rodeo bar that the Giant Sea Bass used as a cleaning and mating site. I didn't know if we would ever return, but the ocean was calm enough for us to give it a go. This morning, Merry Passage and I dropped into chunky soup. Visibility was six feet in the particulate-filled water. We were only down a few minutes when our old friends came to visit. The only halfway decent shots I got were when the fish allowed my housing to get within a few inches.
