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Why don't you leave the Ultima rings in and dive dry gloves or wet?

Oz for a week, then Tasmania for a week.

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Phil and I have been using Superior Diving Repair since 2009. We've sent in 6 different drysuits over the years for such things as brass or Master T-zip zipper replacement, boot installation, neoprene neck and wrist seal replacement, fabric or seam leaks, as well as adding material to the length...

I clip my spg to my left chest D-Ring. It's easy to see there and is still "streamlined" enough for DIR.

Perhaps it's because Phil and I depend on marine life for lively adventures, that I get such a kick out of discovering what lives in the small area under our boat. Although there is some seasonality with the appearance of species that live in such a sheltered habitat, I find that encounters are...

Last Monday, we made another trip on the Giant Stride to Farnsworth Bank. Such a unique site that never fails to deliver! This trip, Captain Jim Simmerman dropped us within a few feet of the famous Yellow Wall, which is formed by an expansive colony of Given's yellow zoanthids blanketing the...

Last Sunday, we joined Phil Colla, Kevin Lee, Dana Rodda and Nannette and Bill Van Antwerp on the Giant Stride for what we thought would be your typical dives at Farnsworth. Ha! We were in for a truly mind-blowing experience. Our first clue should have been when Captain Jim Simmerman said the...

Phil and GSB 445 at Spongehenge A new anemone for us (ID pending) at Spongehenge Torrance Reef, two-spot octopus Large, scary California scorpionfish Little Reef Was interrupted before I could see the disc and column, but it's probably Urticina mcpeaki Cabezon at Golf...

It had been 6 months since we dove Hermosa Artificial Reef to take ID shots for Milton Love's study. Plus we needed a chance to look for Mike Couffer's fish, GSB462. Visibility is so iffy at Hermosa at certain times of the year, that using a drop camera to assess the vis has saved us more than...

July 10 on the Giant Stride, we joined Phil Colla, Jamie Leslie-Feldman, Marla Matin and Kevin Lee for a beautiful day of diving for kelp on Catalina Island. Jim Simmerman and Jeff Reeb captained with Emma Eunoia crew. Eagle Rock Jamie-Leslie Feldman, Marla Matin and Phil Colla Phil and...

Phil and I hadn't dove the barge in quite awhile. We purposely went last Thursday so I could spend some time futzing around with my wide angle set-up. With every visit over the years, there are larger holes on top and more of the walls have peeled away. I didn't think to document more of its...

In lockstep with a primordial urge, hundreds of Gould’s bubble snails emerged from the silt in King Harbor and congregated on clumps of decaying algae. They were intent on a single purpose - to stir up the old gene pool and ensure the next generation of Gould’s bubble snails. We estimate that...

Over the last few dock dives, I've been keeping my eye on a couple pair of bay blennies, Hypsoblennius gentilis. This truly exciting little fish exhibits sexual dimorphism and can even change color to match its surroundings. One male and female (~4.5 - 5 inches) like to hang out on a vertical...

That's a good question. It was so small (4mm) and it was so dark under there that I couldn't really see it. Just crossed my fingers and hoped that the camera would capture it.

Yesterday under the dock, I had one of those "Woo-hoo" moments. At the time, I didn't recognize it as any opisthobranch that we're familiar with and neither did Phil. Dave Behrens kindly ID'd it as Stiliger fuscovittatus, the brown-streaked sapsucker. This is my first sacoglossid and Phil was...

Phil and I expected yuck vis and plenty of surge, but NO! Twenty-five feet vis at the bottom with a gentle, current-driven parade of thousands of pyrosomes. Of course, neither of us brought a WA lens. Caprellid amphipod on a pyrosome. Pyrosoma atlanticum, a colonial tunicate A lone...

Although conditions have been pretty much relegated Phil and I to diving under the dock, something cool pops up about half the time. This juvenile sand bass (4-5") didn't look quite the same as the other sand bass that I was shooting. Until I looked in Milton Love's book, I didn't realize that...

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