BeeBrown
New
Heya folks - I'm a beginning diver in the San Francisco area. I'd like to do more dives, but I hate driving the 2+ hours I need to drive to get to a dive site.
A lot of what I've read about diving in/around SF is that visibility is awful and diving depths require long swims. The long swims are certainly tough, and something I'd want to minimize. However I get the impression that the low visibility what most folks consider to be the main problem. But I don't care about sightseeing - I just really enjoy being deep underwater (edit: my definition of "deep" is probably a lot shallower than y'all's -- for me it's just <= 20m) for extended periods of time. So I only consider low visibility as a problem when it compromises safety.
With that in mind, are there any dive sites closer to SF than Monterey/Mendocino that aren't prohibitively difficult to access for folks who don't care about sightseeing? Also, are there any folks who are like me and would be interested in buddying-up to do the kind of diving I'm talking about?
A lot of what I've read about diving in/around SF is that visibility is awful and diving depths require long swims. The long swims are certainly tough, and something I'd want to minimize. However I get the impression that the low visibility what most folks consider to be the main problem. But I don't care about sightseeing - I just really enjoy being deep underwater (edit: my definition of "deep" is probably a lot shallower than y'all's -- for me it's just <= 20m) for extended periods of time. So I only consider low visibility as a problem when it compromises safety.
With that in mind, are there any dive sites closer to SF than Monterey/Mendocino that aren't prohibitively difficult to access for folks who don't care about sightseeing? Also, are there any folks who are like me and would be interested in buddying-up to do the kind of diving I'm talking about?