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Late report for a dive at Pt Lobos on Saturday Oct 15. We've been really enjoying The Road and headed back there with the intention of spending some time on the back/west side of the reef. Great conditions overall and we saw the usual colorful stuff down there. We also had fly-bys from a handful...

Saturday dive at Pt Lobos - headed west to Taco and Marco's Pinnacle with a slight detour to Sea Mount. Conditions were overcast in the morning and, combined with the slightly green water, the dive felt dark overall. Viz was about 30-40ft throughout with very little surge. Tons of color through...

Update on the above - went through Rock Garden to Taco and Marco's yesterday. Tons of kelp with very few urchins for pretty much all of Rock Garden. Marco's was urchin free as well (at least at 50ft and deeper) Taco was interesting. The north/slightly deeper side is free of urchins and had a...

Also healthy - - Sea Mount (really gorgeous right now, tons of life on it) - Approach from HITW to Sea Mount (lots of young kelp stalks, kinda annoying to scooter through tbh) - West of Rock Garden deeper than 60ft .i.e. Taco, Marco's Pinnacle (we haven't been there in some time but it looked...

Saturday dive at Pt Lobos - back to The Road. We were building up some confidence navigating to the deeper reaches of the reserve and had planned a pretty conservative dive. Conditions were a little hazy out to about Lone Metridium but viz improved to 40-50ft of blue water by the time we got...

Once you've decided you want to do technical dives (cave, deco, some combo of depth and time that requires mandatory deco) an intro to tech type class is a good way to check where you are in terms of the skills needed to conduct those dives safely. It doesn't matter which agency - TDI Intro to...

Lobos conditions today were unreal but you had to get to at least 70-80ft depth to start seeing blue water. We ended up going to the Road and had about 30-40ft viz - saw a pretty big mola, a wolf eel haulin' along the reef and the usual assortment of deeper rockfish. -> max depth 142ft, avg...

@Bigbella What depth did you get to? Lobos on Saturday was pretty bad till 60ft, opened up deeper than that and got awesome around 90ft. I'm going on Friday so 🤞 it's decent then. This is my buddy's video from Saturday

Opalescent nudibranch

Why wouldn't GUE want other divers to know about how they do things and what standards are used in the training? It's totally possible that someone who wasn't previously interested in GUE training sees the material and decides they want to go through of it. And it's not like any of the...

These aren't your target shops for technical diving services though. A shop that doesn't cater much to local diving and/or only does air fills is not a valid comparison in this context. Leave aside helium, we're not even going to get oxygen for our deco gas mixes here. Banked mixes are just a...

Just so you know, I've reported you to SB mods for inciting violence

Dive shops not filling helium in OC is a "regression of service" as well, right? We're just differing on which particular regression /reduction/trade-off we're willing to accept based on our circumstances, preferences, whatever. Wait, no helium availability is gonna prevent you from diving CCR...

This is the pragmatic approach for me right now. I'm not limited by availability and, for $100 more, I can do dives to 170ft using the exact same techniques I've been using for the last 7 years and have built up experience and muscle memory with. This is a cost increase that is acceptable to me...

That's a perfectly valid reason for moving away from OC. That's not a constraint I'm facing now because of the area I am in so doesn't yet factor into my decision making. In the future, if my dive shop refused to fill helium for OC, I just wouldn't do any dives that needed helium. CCR has a...

The zealotry that has you using words like "not viable for open circuit" in the context of normoxic trimix and "bigot" for DIR? I agree.

My shop banks 18/45 and I just get that topped up after the dives. After a normal T1 dive, my top ups on doubles are around $110 and the 50% fill in AL80 is a flat $18. I think helium is $2/cu.ft if you want a custom mix. I usually dive twice a month (every other Saturday) with a 3rd Saturday...

Same here. Boat trip rates don't seem to have gone up much from what they were pre-Covid - no increase at all on the boat I dive off.

Not viable? Really? I'm an about-to-be T1 diver and using 21/35 or 18/45 for 150-170' dives with a single deco gas is perfectly viable for the number and frequency of dives I do every month. And I'm certainly not made of money. There's quite a few divers who do this at my local dive sites and...