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The shores this morning had thick fog and the ocean was flat. Headed out to the canyon and dropped down onto the sandy flat right before the wall. Compared to yesterday, the visibility dropped a bit to about 30 ft with a slight haze. The visibility down the wall was about the same but with…
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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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Headed to the Mission Bay to practice shooting macro. Here are two clips from the dive. The first one is of a Flabellina trilineata. Flabellina trilineata, #Flabellinatrilineata #nudibranch #sandiego #weiweigao #nudibranchinmybackyard A post shared by Weiwei Gao (@weiweigao) on Jan 8, 2018 at 7:41am PST Which medication procedure should be carried out outside the body…
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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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Headed out with Steve today and did two dives at Point Loma. The highlight of the dive was White Dorid. Another less common nudibranch seen in Point Loma today. I knew nothing about it while seeing it, but just felt a bit unusual compared to so many white colored dorids around. I believe this one…
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The ocean recently remained pretty calm so I decided to dive Mission Bay. It’s been a while since I came to Mission Point Park. The park was quiet at the dawn and the channel was beautiful. I entered the water when the tide just changed. The eel grass near the beach was less dense and…






