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Is this for real?????
On Liveaboard, M/V Peace Diveboat out of Ventura for back-to-back charters, to San Miguel 19-20Sept and San Clemente 21-23Sept: I'm expecting to see Whale Sharks, schooling Hammerheads, Manta Rays, Bluefin & Albacore Tuna, Sea Turtles, Trigger Fish etc --and all the weird & wonderful warm water pelagics that can possibly come up this way in a rare strong El Nino Southern Oscillation Cycle. . . :cool2:
On the protected leeward side of Catalina, especially the region from Long Point to the East End, there is not a lot of vertical water movement so surface waters warm up. On the exposed mainland coast there is a lot more vertical mixing and deeper, colder water more frequently enters the shallows is my guess. Of course the south swell can affect this, but it can also bring up warm southern water