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Brrrr...I don't think I've dove below 9C, myself.

I've gone through a few Viking Drysuits, and a DUI, with latex hoods and use the beanies that came with the suits. You need something to allow air to move within the hood and prevent an ear squeeze. There don't seem to be many folks who sell them, but a quick google for "drysuit hood liner"...

Fun dive along the Breakwater Friday, November 2'nd, trying out some new video lights and second checkout dove for my recently replaced drysuit hood. Bottom time: 70 minutes Max depth: 40 feet Visibility: 10 to 15+ feet Water temperature: 55 to 59.4F Conditions: Sunny & warm. Small waves that...

On a good day you can see the pipe from the surface. Follow it 'til you can't, then drop and follow it to the end. Hang a left ~45 degrees---magnetic north---and you'll soon be there.

Fun dive this morning at Point Lobos' Middle Reef: Bottom time: 65 minutes Max Depth: 51 feet Visibility: 20 to 30 feet Water temperature: 55F to 60.8F Conditions: Pretty much flat seas, with a light breeze rippling the surface. Overcast when we arrived, but the sun came out as we geared up...

Great dive today to Hole In the Wall, Lone Metridium, AND Sea Mount with RaftingTigger and another friend. Bottom time: 60 minutes Max depth: 74 feet Visibility: 40 to 50+ feet!!!! Water temperature: 50.7F to 57.2F Conditions: Overcast. Dramatic looking swell that really didn't amount to...

Two fun dives today at Point Lobos with a bevy of beauties, who wanted more bottom time after yesterday's Woman's Dive Day. The seas were flat, but the visibility not so good... First Dive: Hole In The Wall Bottom time: 49 minutes Max depth: 62 feet Visibility: a milky 10 to 20 feet Water...

I chose to focus on local shore diving early in my life. This has kept the expenses within my means & rewarded me with 3 decades + of fun California diving.

Two fun dives at Lobos today, with Raftingtigger. The waves looked forbidding at Monastery, and were pretty impressive breaking on the rocks twixt Bluefish and Whalers, but turned into a glassy swell as they rounded into Whalers itself. The boat ramp is very slick! The kelp has filled in...

On today's menu: Pea Soup with Crab and Anemone Fun dive at the Breakwater today: Bottom time: 66 minutes Max depth: 42 feet Visibility: 5 to 10 feet Water temperature: 52.9F to 58.6F Surface conditions: Windy with morning clouds, when I arrived, that burned off to sunny sky's. Very small...

D'oh! Didn't notice that, LOL.

Looks like the similar names were deliberate, but it's not clear they were otherwise related (based on a small amount of googling): Marineland of the Pacific | park, California, United States Marineland of Florida - Wikipedia Marineland of the Pacific - Wikipedia I grew up in the LA area &...

Back in the 80's, I dove in the shark cage at the old Marineland in Palos Verdes CA. It was fun being able to reach out and touch the sharks...but you don't really see anything different than the folks looking in the windows. I'd do it again...but it was torn down ages ago... Also, they...

The kelp is seasonal, grows in the summer, thins out in the winter. Lobos and Breakwater (San Carlos Beach) are both consistent good dives, but conditions vary.

Fun dive at the Breakwater this morning...dead flat, but poor viz. Bottom time: 81 minutes Max depth: 41 feet Visibility: 10-15 feet Water temperature: 54.3F to 61.5F (Buddy said his computer indicated 52F. ) Surface conditions: Sunny and dead flat when we entered. Small waves, overcast, and...

FWIW: I've been lap swimming for a couple of years, but have had shoulder problems so am giving it a rest. I scrounged up a pair of lap swim fins and have been doing a paddle board workout the last couple of weeks---alternating 50 yards of flutter, frog, and dolphin kick, with the fins on, for...

I've used my SMB to float/swim with recovered weight pockets, and once an entire weight belt. I recently found two different weight pockets & stowed them in my buddies thigh pockets. Buddy was underweighted & struggling to submerge 'til I loaded 'em up.

Not sure, but it wasn't too far out along the wall. We dropped at the Admiralty Anchor (@ 5 1/4), were moving pretty slow, and found them 22 minutes into the dive. 8 maybe...

Did two dives at San Carlos Beach today. There were lots of fishing boats, Phil Sammet's RIB with the mondo camera rig, and a Marine Mammal rescue crew after a Sea Lion at the far end of the beach. First dive: Pipe to the Metridiums Dive Time: 65 minutes Max Depth: 38 feet Visibility: 15...

Two fun dives at Point Lobos yesterday (Friday February 9'th). No whales or sharks, alas, but sunny skies, flat seas & good vis. First dive: Hole in the Wall and Lone Metridium Bottom time: 68 minutes Max depth: 63 feet Visibility: 45+ feet (could see the surface from 45 feet, couldn't at 55...