| 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 |