Well the dive was long but the report will be slow as I still have to clean gear.
Date: 08/07/2005
Dive Location: San Diego/ HMS Yukon
Time: 08:23
Bottom Time: 1hr 46 minutes
Max Depth: 93ft
Avg Depth: 54ft
Vis: 5-25ft top the wreck was a milky soup, near the bottom was crystal clear.
Wave height: calm seas, maybe 1-2ft swells. No pukers
Temp at depth: 51F
Surface Temp: 71F
Images: http://gallery.scubapost.net/v/terry/album10/yukon080705/
Comments:
What to do if you have twin 98's cranked full of EANx 36??? Why the Yukon of course and so off we went. The local charter was scheduled for two tanks at the Yukon and after turning in our dive plan to the Captain and dive master we splashed into the milky soup that was the top 60ft of the water column. There were two classes on board and several other fun divers. They would do two dives while we did one long dive.
Visibility on top the wreck was a bit soupy. The school of rockfish is greatly diminished but still there and still amazing to see. Dropping over the side, er bottom, we found less surge and much better visibility. After a leisurely tour from stern to bow and back again, I took my time exploring the keel wall for small stuff and oh did I find it!! Of course there were the lovely metridiums and other anemones, but also nudribranchs (Agires, Polycera and Janolus), warty sea cucumbers from less than an inch to nearly a foot, tunicates and sponges and more and more.....
After about 70 minutes the cold on my no gloved hands and the call of nature brought me back to the up line and a series of stops and stops and stops. While at 30ft two black sea nettles drifted by. There was little to no current so hanging, arms and legs out like superman, we drifted the time away while the nitrogen leached out with each exhaled breath. Requirements met, we ascended to the boat for some soup and dive talk.
Great dive with good friends.
Terry S.
Date: 08/07/2005
Dive Location: San Diego/ HMS Yukon
Time: 08:23
Bottom Time: 1hr 46 minutes
Max Depth: 93ft
Avg Depth: 54ft
Vis: 5-25ft top the wreck was a milky soup, near the bottom was crystal clear.
Wave height: calm seas, maybe 1-2ft swells. No pukers
Temp at depth: 51F
Surface Temp: 71F
Images: http://gallery.scubapost.net/v/terry/album10/yukon080705/
Comments:
What to do if you have twin 98's cranked full of EANx 36??? Why the Yukon of course and so off we went. The local charter was scheduled for two tanks at the Yukon and after turning in our dive plan to the Captain and dive master we splashed into the milky soup that was the top 60ft of the water column. There were two classes on board and several other fun divers. They would do two dives while we did one long dive.
Visibility on top the wreck was a bit soupy. The school of rockfish is greatly diminished but still there and still amazing to see. Dropping over the side, er bottom, we found less surge and much better visibility. After a leisurely tour from stern to bow and back again, I took my time exploring the keel wall for small stuff and oh did I find it!! Of course there were the lovely metridiums and other anemones, but also nudribranchs (Agires, Polycera and Janolus), warty sea cucumbers from less than an inch to nearly a foot, tunicates and sponges and more and more.....
After about 70 minutes the cold on my no gloved hands and the call of nature brought me back to the up line and a series of stops and stops and stops. While at 30ft two black sea nettles drifted by. There was little to no current so hanging, arms and legs out like superman, we drifted the time away while the nitrogen leached out with each exhaled breath. Requirements met, we ascended to the boat for some soup and dive talk.
Great dive with good friends.
Terry S.