Whoa, whoa, whoa - you're based in SF, and your local diving isn't Monterey/Carmel?? For shame! ;) (In all honesty, I've been to a few places around the world, and the kelp forests of Carmel stand up to anything I've ever seen (Galapagos, Cocos, Fiji, Bahamas, etc.). It's the one perk of living...