Huge and powerful waves in the morning but became much quiet later during the day. At the sandy flat, the visibility was 30 ft + with beautiful emerald water. However, at the canyon and the crap patch, the vis dropped significantly to about 10 ft. My computer showed 51F at 85 ft. Despite the poor…

Read More

This is the dive report from Jackie: Secret Garden / partial Crap Patch Temp: 52 brr Viz: layers of thick particulates 8’ – 12’ Current / Surge: sporadic Surf: 2’-3’ some power – sneaky 4’ Buddies: Weiwei G., Jim R. Under another beautiful sunset, we dropped “near” Secret Garden. The upper water column quickly turned…

Read More

Despite a busy schedule on this Sunday, I sneaked in a quick morning dive at the shores. Mike, John and I met up in the parking lot and walked into the water from there. The wall looked as usual but the highlight the kelp we came across at the edge of the canyon. It was…

Read More

I joined Power Scuba to dive the Scripps Canyon today. It was a beautiful day at the canyon. The dive conditions couldn’t be better: minimum to no waves, no surge, and over 30 ft visibility. We encountered a northern current in the second dive during our kick out. But it was not a too big…

Read More

Mike and I set out to the sea caves at the cove with a specific goal in our minds to find Hopkin’s Rose, a strikingly beautiful but elusive nudibranch. Even in a calm day, waters around the caves were like a washing machine and the navigation around the boulders required both skills and determination. We…

Read More