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Back to Kona after a few years and the difference in the health of the reefs is stunning. Ho'onaunau's famous cascading plate coral is about 75% bleached. Wow. Across the boat channel I found some plate coral that wasn't so bad, but still under stress. OK, while that was depressing, I enjoyed...

Is there feasible public access to Kahuwai Bay for shore diving? I've dove that reef from the Kona Village beach and would love to get back out there, check out the cleaning station, and snoop around the overhangs as the reef drops off. It's a truly beautiful area unlike most of the other...

Last Thursday, fate being all quirky and all, Robin, Ron, Carrie, me and my wife Lynn, all converged on the Place of Refuge, a super shore diving spot on the Kona coast. We agreed that if we'd tried to plan a Kona M&G it would never happen, but coincidence ruled and so there we were. We...

I don't know why I was so sure we would cross paths with Kristina and Matt on The Peace - it's a big ocean and a lot of dive sites on the channel islands. So Monday morning I was not in the least surprised to see the Peace anchored on Farnsworth Banks as we approached after leaving San Clemente...

Location: Van Damm, Mendocino Time: 11:24am BT: 41 minutes depth: 45 fsw surface conditions: overcast, 58˚ bottom temp: 46˚ Slight surge Low to incoming tide vis 25 feet Had run into a guy on Friday who said he saw 30ft vis at Ocean Cove earlier that day. I was extremely skeptical...

Gerstle Cove depth: 40 fsw temp: 50˚ f time: 59 min vis: 20' outside the cove wind: calm seas: calm weather: foggy and drizzly Gerstle Cove was like a lake this morning and, from the bluff I knew it would be a special day because I could see the bottom of the cove most of the way out...

I am getting uniformly too-dark shots in macro mode, while exposures are perfectly lit with the camera in normal focus mode. Set up: Canon D870IS, Canon housing with Inon D2000 slave triggered via fiberoptic cable anchored in Inon base mount on the housing. strobe arm is ultralight 8" off the...

Never have I seen the sea so dead flat calm out on the Channel Islands as it was this last weekend. I was out there for three days on the Truth, and after a day at Santa Cruz island, diving and assessing the weather and conditions we decided to take a chance that San Miguel Island would be...

Here's a photo I took on my visit in March. Below the Grey and French Angels, what is that gold fish? I can't seem to find it on any of the fish charts I've seen. thanks in advance!

Dive stats: Me, Anne, and Michelle First dive max depth: 46 fsw time: 58 minutes temp at surface 48 temp at depth 46 Gas: O2 29% Vis: 25 feet The forecast was for a perfect storm of good conditions this weekend. No swell, no early wind, sunny and warm, basically a diver's wet dream...

After months of handwringing over various alternatives, from little Sealife pcket cameras to expensive housings/ports/strobes for a DSLR, I finally figured out what I think will be a decent, relatively versatile, and clip-offable entry-level underwater photo solution. Camera is Cannon SD870 for...

After toughing it out Saturday in the Red Tide at BW, my buddy Anne and I were delighted to head to Carmel Sunday on Monterey Express. Our first stop was East Pinnacle (Escapade and another boat were already on the other two when we got there). No current, no wind, glassy water with about a...

I know it's a week late but houseguests are gone now and I am planning to get wet this weekend. It looks like the big swell may not last and conditions could be OK. Anyway, a buddy and I are planning on doing some shore diving Saturday late morning/early afternoon at either McAbee or...

I'm getting pretty stoked now. . .day after tomorrow we're heading for Kauai. Ostensibly, it's for my neice's wedding, but the real itinerary is our dive schedule. First day my wife is going to do her last two OW checkout dives on referral, and the kids are going to do discover scuba. I'm...

Team 1: Jeff and Dan Team 2: Andy, Sue, Steve time in: 2:20 pm Date: 21 July 07 Dive Location: Gerstle Cove Wind: around 7-10 kts NW Bottom Time: 35 Max Depth: 50 Vis: 25 Temp at depth: 48F Earlier we'd messed around in the cove a little bit but this was our first actual dive. Vis in the cove...

A three-day weekend! I'm thinking of just driving down on my own Sunday morning for either some shore diving or maybe a boat dive if I can find space. Anybody else?

We are two families, with kids ages 13 to 17 (kids may become interested in diving but aren't yet) planning our first trip to Coz sometime in July-August. I've scoured this board for ideas and come up with a few that seem to make sense, but I'm hoping that you Coz veterans can help me sift out...

I'm a novice diver, and after a few weeks or so of reading here I've learned enough, I think, to figure out my computer/guage configuration for simple rec diving. I may take a Nitrox course next year, but for now I'm just going to be doing plain vanilla OW diving. My constraints were that I...

I'm a novice with only two logged dives in hawaii, where I wore a 3 mm shorty, had an Al 80 tank, and was weighted maybe just a teeny bit light at 16lbs. I am 6'5" and 250 lbs. This is my total diving experience up to now. But I want to dive in Monterey, with basically the same tank, but...

Hi everyone, Nice to be here. I think I've gotten into this sport sort of backwards. Did most of my Padi OW pool and class work in Kona and now have to do my last two OW dives in N. California to get my cert. I'm looking forward to California diving despite the cold. Here's a question for...