Lobos Dive Sites

FishDiver · Apr 29, 2011

I just stumbled on this information on Pt. Lobos dive sites: Trail Map | Point Lobos Foundation
I have dived Whalers Middle Reef and Cannery Point Wall. Is there any way to access the others without a private boat?

mikemill · Apr 29, 2011

I find Point Lobos Underwater Maps to be more useful for looking at Point Lobos sites.

There are many sites that are accessible via kicking: Hole in the Wall and Sea Mount jump right out as single tank kicking dives. If you are good then Lone Metridium is also available. Granite Point Wall is available depending on how far you are willing to surface kick though I did a very nice doubles dive there once.

With a scooter things open up even more but the outer sites can quickly become tech dives without a boat (due to depth and time when scootering from shore).

fdog · Apr 29, 2011

Mike summed it up pretty nicely.

Here's what you can expect further out:

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All the best, James

Chuck Tribolet · Apr 29, 2011

The Beach Hopper does the outer sites a Pt. Lobos occasionally.
Check their calendar. You put you gear on the boat in Monterey,
and then drive to Lobos.

The site that the trail map lists as "Bluefish Outer Pinnacle" is more
commonly known as "The Great Pinnacle"

astrofunk · Apr 29, 2011

Roughly speaking, the 100' contour running through 3 Sisters, Beto's, and Granite Point Pinnacles represents the practical outer limit of our kick dives. (And those are pretty long dives, so you need to think hard about gas and NDLs if you're going all the way. (But that said, folks have kicked farther!))

As a rule of thumb, everything inside that contour is kickable.

mikemill · Apr 29, 2011

BTW if Team Bunny says something is outside of practical limits for kicking then it most likely is

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