El-no-Vis Has Not Left The Building

MaxBottomtime · Apr 27, 2013

I read a report of fifty feet visibility at Redondo Beach last Wednesday. After finding brown water and two feet vis on Sunday, I was more than a little skeptical. I planned to dive off San Pedro this morning but the south swell kept me close to King Harbor. One more dive on the barge...
The brown water is still here, but the visibility has improved to over six feet! My focus light barely penetrated more then a few inches, though. I made the best of a bad situation and concentrated on the tiny animals.

Beroe gracilis

Ancula gibbosa

Flabellina iodinea

Flabellina trilineata

Tritonia festiva

Doto kya

Rictaxis punctocaelatus

FrankPro1 · Apr 27, 2013

Dig the Tritonia festiva with Skeleton Shrimp capture. Excellent Closeup of the Spanish Shawl as well. What's the hole in the Shawl, right beneath the rhinophores? Some type of olfactory gland?

MaxBottomtime · Apr 28, 2013

That's an eye. They can see light and shadows, unlike this guy.

drbill · Apr 28, 2013

Missing the Philippines are we, Phil and Merry. Tee hee.

MaxBottomtime · Apr 28, 2013

The water temps don't bother us. We're used to low 50s in P.V., but the vis has sucked since we got back.

FrankPro1 · Apr 28, 2013

MaxBottomtime:
the vis has sucked since we got back.

You can say that again! Charlie and I scoped from White Point to Haggertys and back. Nothing but swell and brown water.

Were thinking of doing a Catalina run next weekend.

fnfalman · Apr 29, 2013

Viz was really bad at Catalina on Sunday too. We went to Ship Rock, Bird Rock, Eagle Reef, Isthmus Reef and there were current everywhere (not ripping but definitely felt) with extremely low viz.

geoff w · Apr 29, 2013

Water in Malibu has been an awful green/brown for the past few weeks. The spot that looked better than most was Little Dume, between Paradise Cove and the staircase at the state reserve at Point Dume. After a long surface swim out to the kelp on Saturday morning, we dropped down to good 10 ft viz, which opened up to 20 ft viz in a number of spots. I haven't seen divers here before, but we explored the little finger reefs that dot the area at about 25-30 feet deep, and had a very pleasant 70 minute dive. Lots of sea life, and very pristine. I went out at Corral Beach in the afternoon with a rescue class, but the visibility there was much worse. On Sunday the gloom and overcast was back, so I suspect visibility deteriorated somewhat

One guy with us missed the dive because he was on the phone with his kids, so he went out for a while while we got back and reported a 4 foot leopard shark swam by him in about 20 ft of water

fnfalman · Apr 29, 2013

I think that I might have seen the Rictaxis at Ship Rock. It was tiny but it looked like that: black & white with the shell looking thing on the back. Rex Uber saw it too, but he didn't bring his camera and this sucker was too small even when I put my face right next to it. Hell of a trip to forget to bring my magnifying glass.

MaxBottomtime · Apr 29, 2013

They can grow up to one inch, but most of the ones I've seen were 3/16" and smaller.

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