2005

Dive Scuba Free- dive Date Location Site Total Time Max Depth Descents Boat Notes
212 48   1/16/2005 Catalina Island Isthmus Reef 33:00 41 ft   Sundiver First drysuit dive; octopus
213 49   1/16/2005 Catalina Island w. of Arrow Point 41:40 33 ft   Sundiver Topside, eagle snatched fish from ocean
214 50   1/16/2005 Catalina Island w. of Black Point (a.k.a. Schaeffer) 37:40 36 ft   Sundiver Fried-egg jellyfish; buddy found intact paper nautilus shell
215 51   2/13/2005 Palos Verdes Old Marineland 45:20 50 ft     Vis so-so, recovering from storm
216 52   2/27/2005 Catalina Island Red Bluffs 44:20 56 ft   Sundiver Large bat ray
217 53   2/27/2005 Catalina Island Red Bluffs 61:00 33 ft   Sundiver Coral-colored phoronids;several flatfish
218 54   2/27/2005 Catalina Island Red Bluffs 51:20 45 ft   Sundiver Caves; huge lobsters; large abalone
219 55   2/28/2005 Redondo Beach Vets Park 38:00 92 ft     Night dive for squid run; very poor vis; small thornbacks, crabs
220 56   3/12/2005 Catalina Island Casino Point 63:00 99 ft     ~60-ft vis; large moray eel, treefish; Spanish shawl macro shot
221 57   3/26/2005 Catalina Island Rock Quarry/Gravel Point 58:00 45 ft   Island Time Extended encounter with very friendly harbor seal; treefish, many rockfish, large abalone
222 58   3/26/2005 Catalina Island Isthmus Reef 37:20 30 ft   Island Time Mexichromis porterae, lobsters, giant kelpfish, cabezon, numerous garibaldis and sheephead; surrounded by huge dolphin pod on crossing home
223   165 4/7/2005 Santa Cruz Island Little Scorpion 40:00 19 ft 28 Peace Poor vis
224   166 4/7/2005 Santa Cruz Island Coches Prietos 50:00 24 ft 47 Peace Better vis; opaleye schools, halfmoons, garibaldis, harbor seal
225   167 4/7/2005 Santa Cruz Island Albert Anchorage 45:00 13 ft 28 Peace Strong current
226   168 4/12/2005 San Diego La Jolla Cove ~30:00 ~10 ft ~15   Poor vis, cold water; opaleye and perch schools, garibaldis
227 59   4/13/2005 San Diego Ruby E. 32:40 76 ft   Dive Bliss Strong current, limited vis; blacksmith schools, Spanish shawls, sculpin
228 60   4/13/2005 San Diego 'Awesome Site' (~1,000 ft s.w. of New Hope Rock, Pt. Loma kelp) 28:40 57 ft   Dive Bliss Strong surge, poor vis; large sheephead, rockfish, numerous orange puffball sponges; temp 50 F
229 61   5/1/2005 Santa Barbara Channel Humble SM1 wreck 37:20 72 ft   Vision Strong current, limited vis
230 62   5/1/2005 Santa Barbara Channel Gosford wreck 34:00 30 ft   Vision Strong surge, poor vis; 2-3 large lingcods, cabezon, swimming rockfish, numerous nudibranchs (especially Hermissenda crassicornis and Spanish shawls)
231 63   5/7/2005 Catalina Island Pirates Cove (just e. of Long Point) 46:40 44 ft   Island Time Large lobsters, 2 octopus, barracuda, large bait school, treefish, many garibaldis
232 64   5/7/2005 Catalina Island Little Italian Gardens (just w. of Long Point) 59:40 34 ft   Island Time Fruitless search for mantis shrimp; extended encounter with octopus; white sea bass croaking
233 65   5/30/2005 Catalina Island Rippers Cove 50:00 41 ft   Sundiver Large schools of baitfish
234 66   5/30/2005 Catalina Island Isthmus Reef 52:00 74 ft   Sundiver Great wall dive; several fried-egg jellyfish, tube anemones
235 67   5/30/2005 Catalina Island Indian Rock 44:20 32 ft   Sundiver Moray eel eating lobster, 2 speckled sanddabs, cabezon
236 68   6/12/2005 Catalina Island Albert's Reef 39:00 98 ft   Sundiver Strong current, so-so vis; nudibranch egg ribbon, white corynactis
237 69   7/1/2005 Palos Verdes Old Marineland/Long Point 55:20 64 ft     Thick red tide near shore; clearer but cold deeper; carpets of Kellet's whelk eggs, numerous Hermissenda crassicornis
238 70   7/9/2005 Catalina Island Casino Point 52:40 64 ft     2-3 large batrays; scallop amid lightbulb tunicates; tube anemones; horn shark egg case; small lobster; 2 small giant kelpfish; hyperaggressive garibaldi
239   169 7/17/2005 Catalina Island Casino Point 35:00 20 ft 8   Rescue class skindive
240 71   7/17/2005 Catalina Island Casino Point 20:00 21 ft     Rescue class scuba dive
241 72   7/17/2005 Catalina Island Casino Point 40:00 46 ft     Conditions 'low end of mediocre' -- poor vis, strong surge
242 73   7/20/2005 Redondo Beach Vets Park 42:40 94 ft     Night dive; 5-6 target shrimp, several baby octopuses, baby and adult thornback rays, round rays, baby bat rays, numerous sea pens
243 74   7/22/2005 Palos Verdes Old Marineland/Long Point 1:05:40 50 ft     Visit to sunken platform -- dozen-plus Facelina stearnsi, adult and juvenile sea lemons, Aplysia californica, egg ribbons, masking crabs, decorator crab, sculpin; globe crabs, moon snails, Spanish shawl, Doriopsilla albopunctata, sea pens on sand; dolphin on surface at entry
244 75   8/2/2005 Cornwall, U.K. Cadgwith Cove 48:20 31 ft     2 compass jellies, juvenile cuttlefish, snakelocks anemones, various fish, numerous hills with cast of lugworms, heavy eelgrass
245   170 8/3/2005 Cornwall, U.K. Lamorna Cove ~1:00:00 ~15 ft ~40   Boulder fields, schools of lesser sand eels, pipefish, many blennies
246 76   8/27/2005 Catalina Island Farnsworth Bank 32:40 114 ft   Sundiver Great conditions, several torpedo rays, Tritonia festiva nudibranch, purple hydrocoral, clouds of blacksmith
247 77   8/27/2005 Catalina Island Abalone Cove 52:40 74 ft   Sundiver Nice wall, 3 angel sharks on sand, vivid yellow sponge, many colors of gorgonians
248 78   8/27/2005 Catalina Island Africa Point (between Eel Cove and Little Geiger) 35:40 33 ft   Sundiver Shallow, sunny dive; large school of jack mackerel; half dozen large lobsters
249 79   9/2/2005 Palos Verdes Pt. Vicente Fishing Access 70:00 49 ft     Large, sleeping angel shark; marooned purple jelly; Flabellina iodinea, Hermissenda crassicornis, Navanax, other nudibranchs; small octopus in crevice; baby treefish, lobsters
250 80   9/4/2005 Laguna Beach Crescent Bay 61:40 44 ft     Banded guitarfish, shovelnose guitarfish, cabezon, 2 or 3 Flabellina iodinea, small octopus, baby treefish
251 81   9/10/2005 San Pedro Shelf Johanna Smith wreck 31:20 83 ft   Orion III Loads of scorpionfish; sea cucumber crawling across one of them; nudibranchs (Spanish shawls, Cuthona divae, Triopha catalina, Facelina stearnsii); metridiums; red, lavender, orange and pink corynactis
252 82   9/22/2005 Redondo Beach Vets Park 38:00 81 ft     Night dive; 2 or 3 small octopus, crabs, number of cusk eels, 2-3 sarcastic fringehead, various flatfish (one with Phrixocephalus cincinnatus parasite above one eye)
253 83   9/25/2005 La Jolla La Jolla Shores 35:00 106 ft     2 Pleurobranchaea californica nudibranchs, sarcastic fringehead, blennies, several juvenile flatfish
254 84   10/1/2005 Catalina Island Deadman's/Shaffer 54:00 59 ft   Sundiver Lobster opener, midnight dive; many shorts on shallow reef
255 85   10/1/2005 Catalina Island Lorenzo Beach 51:20 49 ft   Sundiver Lobster opener, 2:30 a.m. dive; larger lobsters on sand just outside kelp
256 86   10/22/2005 Palos Verdes Malaga Cove/RAT Reef 71:20 38 ft     Night dive; 2 giant sea bass; shark chondrocranium and vertebrae; 3-ft+ halibut, numerous baby flatfish, large octopus, large and juvenile shovelnose guitarfish, round stingray, lobsters, many cusk eels, sheep crab, tiny Spanish shawl, strong bioluminescence in shallows
257 87   10/28/2005 Catalina Island Isthmus Reef 36:40 80 ft   Great Escape Dive at dawn; large barracuda school; leopard shark in shallows
258 88   10/28/2005 Catalina Island Ship Rock 50:40 79 ft   Great Escape Large bait school, many blacksmith, sea lion
259 89   10/28/2005 Catalina Island Parson's Landing 55:40 52 ft   Great Escape Poor vis, interesting rock formations in shallows
260 90   10/28/2005 Catalina Island Eagle Reef 59:20 60 ft   Great Escape Night lobster dive; many sleepy fish in crevices
261 91   10/29/2005 Santa Barbara Island n. of Arch Point 52:40 73 ft   Great Escape Seemingly acres of brittle stars; sunflower stars; large torpedo ray; sea lions; enormous dark cloud of anchovy school
262 92   10/29/2005 Santa Barbara Island n.w. of Arch Point 36:40 58 ft   Great Escape Current made return challenging
263 93   11/6/2005 Malibu Nicholas Canyon 60:40 38 ft     Hilton's aeolid, Hermissenda crassicornis, tiny baby star, horn shark, lobsters
264 94   11/10/2005 Redondo Beach Vets Park 39:00 72 ft     Night dive; visit to 'Monument' (small cinderblock structure); buzzed by sea lion; many octopus; large moon snail, Pleurobranchaea californica, juvenile bat and thornback rays, small lobster
265 95   11/19/2005 Palos Verdes Old Marineland 49:00 57 ft     Unsuccessful attempt to re-lay line to submerged platform; very poor vis
266 96   11/22/2005 Malibu Nicholas Canyon 72:00 34 ft     Night lobster dive; juvenile giant seabass, large angel shark, 2 shovelnose guitarfish, large horn shark, many cusk eels, pipefish
267 97   11/24/2005 Laguna Beach Crescent Bay/Deadman's 61:00 48 ft     30 ft+ vis; banded guitarfish, sheep crab, several octopuses in crevices; dolphin on surface
268 98   11/30/2005 Redondo Beach Vets Park 44:20 79 ft     Night dive; a few isolated squid (including a mating couple) and eggs; several sarcastic fringeheads, octopuses, 3-4 small lobsters, juv round and thornback rays, juv horn sharks, Pleurobranchaea californica, moon snails, pipefish; sea lion in surf zone on exit
269 99   12/14/2005 Malibu Nicholas Canyon 63:20 38 ft     Night lobster dive; perhaps a dozen large to medium batrays; shadowed by pair of harbor seals on dive and on surface at end; large flounder circled my light as I changed masks
270 100   12/15/2005 Redondo Beach Vets Park 65:00 83 ft     Night dive; couple of squid egg clusters, scorpionfish with a squid sticking out of its mouth, several target shrimp, big Pleurobranchaea californica, small octopuses
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