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Made a dive at Mission Bay today – a personal record of 169 min in-water time. Uncertain of the condition, I swam out early morning and dropped down into 5 ft water next to the jetty. It was murky as usual and the visibility was about 5-8 ft. But I was happy there was no…
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La Jolla Cove It was mid-night last night when I opened Facebook and saw videos from Matthias. Feeling a sudden urge to see sharks, I dragged myself to put the camera together and went to sleep with excitement. Five hours later, I arrived at the cove and kicked out to the buoy when the sun…
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I joined a trip to Point Loma to dive a few shallow reefs and took the opportunity to shoot with 100 mm macro lens. The reefs have nothing special. It’s very surgy and the underwater scene looked very much like a dive at the cove. The 100 mm macro is not a lens that magnifies…
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Today is Memorial Day and this marks the 4th anniversary of my first dive in La Jolla. I was debating whether I should go to the cove or the shores, and decided to give the cove a try. The condition turned out to be horrible – low viz and very surgy, but there was no…
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The highlight was to come across a turtle chased by a sea lion in our second dive at the Christmas Reef. They came from behind minutes after we defended. Steve was securing the anchor and I was getting the camera ready. I couldn’t believe it at the beginning because the turtle swam so fast like…
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As the prime conditions returned and a tight schedule in the days ahead, I decided to take ‘dive first work later approach’ and sneaked out to the cove when it’s still dark outside. I took the stairs closer to the street, put my fins on at the last step, and walked back into the water.…
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