Where: Seal Island, San Carlos, Sonora Mexico
When: Sept 2 – 5, 2011
Dive Op: ProTech Scuba on the Sharks Dive II
Air temp: 86.4F with a breeze
Surface temp: 87.2F, slowing dropping to ~83 near the thermocline
Thermocline: ~140FSW and 72F
Vis: 50’ +
Friday, Sep 2nd
Drive down from Nogales took longer than usual, due to heavy construction North of and downtown Hermosillo. Apparently, a heavy monsoon had blown away the culverts and roadways just like San Carlos area in 2009, only the damage was not as extensive. Lots of routing of traffic into one lane on ‘the other side’.
We hit the boat with show 13:30 and go at 14:00. The seas were relatively okay in spite of the previous night’s storm. We double-dipped South point, due to one of the divers dropping their weight pouches. A little S&R was fun! The sea lions were quite active, and gave us much entertainment.
We did a 60-minute and a 20-minute . . . okay, I’ll admit it – 87 is too warm for a drysuit . . . Although I was perfectly warm in my 7mm for the other six dives of the weekend. My weekend dive buddy P and I did some drills and just got used to the way each of us dive. We had a deco dive planned for Sunday.
There was not the abundant sea life we are used to – I think the unusually warm waters drove them deeper.
We got back too late for me to get my tanks filled at Gary’s Dive Shop, the only O2-clean gas op in town. Ugh – had to sidemount AL80s on Sat.
When: Sept 2 – 5, 2011
Dive Op: ProTech Scuba on the Sharks Dive II
Air temp: 86.4F with a breeze
Surface temp: 87.2F, slowing dropping to ~83 near the thermocline
Thermocline: ~140FSW and 72F
Vis: 50’ +
Friday, Sep 2nd
Drive down from Nogales took longer than usual, due to heavy construction North of and downtown Hermosillo. Apparently, a heavy monsoon had blown away the culverts and roadways just like San Carlos area in 2009, only the damage was not as extensive. Lots of routing of traffic into one lane on ‘the other side’.
We hit the boat with show 13:30 and go at 14:00. The seas were relatively okay in spite of the previous night’s storm. We double-dipped South point, due to one of the divers dropping their weight pouches. A little S&R was fun! The sea lions were quite active, and gave us much entertainment.
We did a 60-minute and a 20-minute . . . okay, I’ll admit it – 87 is too warm for a drysuit . . . Although I was perfectly warm in my 7mm for the other six dives of the weekend. My weekend dive buddy P and I did some drills and just got used to the way each of us dive. We had a deco dive planned for Sunday.
There was not the abundant sea life we are used to – I think the unusually warm waters drove them deeper.
We got back too late for me to get my tanks filled at Gary’s Dive Shop, the only O2-clean gas op in town. Ugh – had to sidemount AL80s on Sat.
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