2004

Scuba Dive Freedive Session Date Location Site Total Time Max Depth Descents Boat Notes
  135 2/1/2004 Palos Verdes Bluff Cove/Paddleboard Cove ~45:00 ~8 ft ~20   Thick seagrass; juvenile harbor seal
  136 2/7/2004 Santa Cruz Island Albert Anchorage 32:00 12 ft 26 Conception Schools of large opaleye, huge male sheephead, harbor seal
  137 2/7/2004 Santa Cruz Island Albert Anchorage 13:00 11 ft 23 Conception Freedive scootering with Mako
  138 2/7/2004 Santa Cruz Island Blue Banks 28:00 17 ft 34 Conception Portrait of scuba scooterer
  139 2/21/2004 San Clemente Island Arch 30:00 13 ft 22 Sundiver Mild sinus block
  140 2/21/2004 San Clemente Island Pyramid Head 08:00 12 ft 10 Sundiver Choppy conditions
23   3/9/2004 Redondo Beach Vets Park 41:40 85 ft     Night dive; scorpionfish, baby horn sharks, tiny rays, squid eggs, cusk eels, baby octopus, sand dabs, sarcastic fringehead
  141 3/14/2004 Redondo Beach Topaz Street Jetty ~30:00 ~10 ft ~10   Freedive scootering with Mako
24   3/28/2004 Malibu Escondido Creek 37:40 32 ft     Poor vis
  142 4/2/2004 St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands Cinnamon Bay ~30:00 ~15 ft ~15    
  143 4/3/2004 St. John Cinnamon Bay ~40:00 ~15 ft ~20   Balloonfish, squid, bar jacks, sea egg
  144 4/4/2004 St. John Salt Pond Bay ~45:00 ~25 ft ~20   Octopus, barracuda, stingray, turtles, flounders
  145 4/5/2004 St. John Hawksnest Bay ~30:00 ~15 ft ~15   Many stands of elkhorn coral
  146 4/6/2004 St. John Cinnamon Bay Cay ~45:00 ~15 ft ~20   Pair of large tarpon
  147 4/8/2004 St. John Waterlemon Cay ~30:00 ~15 ft ~15   Turtles, sharksuckers; strong current
  148 4/8/2004 St. John Cinnamon Bay ~15:00 ~10 ft ~5   Vis degraded
  149 4/9/2004 British Virgin Islands Virgin Gorda - The Baths 13:00 15 ft 14   Heavy swell
  150 4/9/2004 British Virgin Islands Norman Island - The Caves 44:00 24 ft 38 Limnos II Moray eel
  151 4/17/2004 San Clemente Island Outside Boilers 17:00 16 ft 12 Great Escape  
  152 4/17/2004 San Clemente Island Inside Boilers 23:00 12 ft 18 Great Escape Baby yellowtail?
25   4/17/2004 San Clemente Island Twin Caves 53:20 52 ft   Great Escape Great vis, beautiful wall dive
  153 4/25/2004 Redondo Beach Topaz Street Jetty 22:00 10 ft 25   Poor vis
  154 5/15/2004 Catalina Island Eagle Reef 34:00 18 ft 21 Island Time Freedive scootering with new Apollo AV-1
  155 5/15/2004 Catalina Island Lulu's Reef 1:01:00 14 ft 56 Island Time Freedive scootering; juvenile ray
  156 5/30/2004 Newport Beach Big Corona Breakwater ~10:00 ~10 ft 4   Extremely poor vis
  157 6/5/2004 Catalina Island Blue Caverns 49:00 26 ft 42 Sundiver Birthday trip; freedive scootering; large purple jellyfish
  158 6/5/2004 Catalina Island Ship Rock 22:00 16 ft 19 Sundiver Kelp thicker than previous year
  159 6/5/2004 Catalina Island Indian Rock 27:00 32 ft 25 Sundiver Freedive scootering; pair of bat rays
26   6/20/2004 Palos Verdes Old Marineland/Long Point 56:40 57 ft     Big guitarfish in midwater
27   6/27/2004 Malibu Leo Carrillo 60:00 37 ft     Bat ray, many fish; swim at end under kelp canopy
  160 7/5/2004 Crystal Cove State Park Reef Point 41:00 12 ft 29   Large ray midwater; juvenile leopard shark
  161 7/17/2004 Laguna Beach Shaw's Cove ~5:00 ~10 ft 2   Vis poor, aborted dive
  162 7/17/2004 Laguna Beach Picnic Beach 58:00 14 ft 30    
28   7/25/2004 Palos Verdes Old Marineland/Long Point 36:00 54 ft     Rough entry from rocks
  163 8/15/2004 Catalina Island Casino Point 1:49:00 22 ft 90   Kelpfish, barracuda, huge baitfish school, diver groups
29   8/28/2004 Catalina Island Land's End 44:20 73 ft   Sundiver Harbor seal, huge mackerel baitball
30   8/28/2004 Catalina Island Eagle Rock Reef 48:40 51 ft   Sundiver Kelp sunray shots
31   8/28/2004 Catalina Island 'The Slide' (between Land's End and Starlight) 41:40 46 ft   Sundiver Macro shots of gobys, eel
32   9/1/2004 Redondo Beach Vets Park 35:00 72 ft     Night dive; cusk eel, sheep crab, juv thornbacks, round rays, sarcastic fringehead, octopus, flatfish
33   9/12/2004 Crystal Cove State Park Reef Point 48:20 49 ft     Clouds of garibaldis and sheephead; sea lion, big cabezon, many painted greenlings
34   9/12/2004 Laguna Beach Shaw's Cove 1:02:20 48 ft     Visited 'Crevice'
35   9/18/2004 Palos Verdes Old Marineland/Long Point 52:40 67 ft     Huge yellowtail school
36   9/23/2004 Palos Verdes Malaga Cove 1:12:00 27 ft     Night dive; numerous lobster; green abalone, small jelly, halibut, octopus
37   9/28/2004 Palos Verdes Malaga Cove 1:08:00 34 ft     Night dive; many lobster, several octopus; green abalone, small jellies, cabezon, horn shark, ray, cusk eel
38   10/24/2004 Malibu Escondido Creek 1:02:40 37 ft     Giant black seabass, three pink abalones, halibut, barracuda school, large bait school, ray; dive-bombing pelicans, dolphins on surface
39   10/24/2004 Malibu Corral Beach 37:00 24 ft     Barracudas feeding on baitfish
40   10/31/2004 Malibu Deer Creek 59:00 44 ft     Bat ray, several lingcod, many rockfish, tiny Spanish shawls
41   11/3/2004 Malibu Nicholas Canyon 60:20 36 ft     Night dive; four shovelnosed guitarfish, horn shark, many box jellies, juvenile octopus, three sheep crabs, lobsters, baitfish drawn to lights
  164 11/7/2004 Corona del Mar Little Corona 10:00 ~10 ft 12   Aborted due to ~3-ft vis; small ray in shallows
42   11/10/2004 Redondo Beach Vets Park 46:40 89 ft     Night dive; cusk eels, scorpionfish, pipefish, sarcastic fringeheads, baby horn sharks, various crabs including sheep crabs, flatfish, white nudibranch, baby octopus, sanddollars
43   11/27/2004 Catalina Island Ship Rock 50:40 82 ft   Sundiver Beautiful 80 ft+ vis; sea lion chasing bait school, large octopus, horn shark, rockfish, innumerable baby bluebanded gobies
44   11/27/2004 Catalina Island Submarine Ride (e. of Arrow Point) 52:40 41 ft   Sundiver Visit to wreck of 31-ft Bertram powerboat sunk in high winds previous weekend
45   11/27/2004 Catalina Island Little Geiger 31:00 32 ft   Sundiver  
46   12/14/2004 Redondo Beach Vets Park 38:20 85 ft     Night dive; a few isolated squid (one depositing an egg), juvenile thornback rays; several scorpionfish, sarcastic fringeheads, numerous swimming crabs mating; shrimp?
47   12/30/2004 San Diego Yukon 34:00 103 ft   Dive Bliss No current, so-so vis; relatively warm (59 F); metridiums, fish schools, etc
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