Unexpected sighting

[geoff w]

Early Saturday afternoon with dive buddy Scott. I was pressed for time, so opted for a local dive and we dive the pinnacles off of Malibu Rd. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, and today we descended right on one of the pinnacles, with amazingly good viz (roughly 25 ft), despite a decent size outgoing tide and choppy conditions, but unfortunately viz got progressively worse toward the bottom at 30 ft. While meandering around one of the pinnacles, we both spotted something that didn't belong. I've seen reports of Cortez angelfish at Catalina, but never expected to see one of these guys on a shore dive in Malibu. Depth was only about 15-18 ft, which is also a little shallower than normal, but it was above the slight thermocline. Kudos to my buddy for having his GoPro handy, since I didn't expect much from today's dive

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I wonder if we're going to have another El Nino. Ian Uhalt found a porcupine fish in the bay this month.

 

[Ken Kurtis]

Nice find.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Early Saturday afternoon with dive buddy Scott. I was pressed for time, so opted for a local dive and we dive the pinnacles off of Malibu Rd. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, and today we descended right on one of the pinnacles, with amazingly good viz (roughly 25 ft), despite a decent size outgoing tide and choppy conditions, but unfortunately viz got progressively worse toward the bottom at 30 ft. While meandering around one of the pinnacles, we both spotted something that didn't belong. I've seen reports of Cortez angelfish at Catalina, but never expected to see one of these guys on a shore dive in Malibu. Depth was only about 15-18 ft, which is also a little shallower than normal, but it was above the slight thermocline. Kudos to my buddy for having his GoPro handy, since I didn't expect much from today's dive

My device won't play this but very pleased for you.

 

[Searcaigh]

My device won't play this but very pleased for you.

+1

 

[San Diego Climber]

Video no load. What should we be seeing if it were to play? Another porcupinefish, or angelfish, or...?

 

[azstinger11]

Very cool! Nice Video!

 

[uncfnp]

My device won't play this but very pleased for you.

Had the same problem so I tried clicking the box with arrow in the upper right corner. Took me to another page where it played.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

The good news is that if we keep seeing these warm water fish in Socal, then I won’t need to fly to some far away tropical location to see these critters!