2009

Dive Scuba Free- dive Date Location Site Total Time Max Depth Descents Boat Notes
393 202   3/13/2009 Palos Verdes Avalon wreck - bow 42 min 71 ft   Whaler Fair vis, lingcod, lobsters under structure
394 203   3/13/2009 Palos Verdes Torrance Red Cars 21 min 57 ft   Whaler Pair of sheep crabs mating
395   192 4/3/2009 Maui Napili Bay 45 min 15 ft 20   3-4 turtles on outer reef; small trumpetfish
396   193 4/4/2009 Maui Kapalua Bay 90 min 21 ft 35   Nice coral formations; 4-5 cornetfish, 2 porcupinefish
397   193 4/5/2009 Maui Black Rock 60 min 31 ft 35   Many humpback whale songs (faint at surface, loud at depth); 4-5 large turtles (two with fibropapilloma growths on face); many cornetfish, several blue-spotted trumpetfish
398   194 4/6/2009 Maui Molikini crater 45 min 20 ft 20 Ocean Odyssey Many black triggerfish, salps
399   195 4/6/2009 Maui Turtle Town 45 min 25 ft 20 Ocean Odyssey Several green turtles; humpback whales breaching in channel
400 204   4/7/2009 Lanai No Name/Paradise 41 min 58 ft   Extended Horizons II Nesting sergeant majors, gray snappers, blue stripe snappers, nudibranch egg casings, yellow tail coris
401 205   4/7/2009 Lanai First Cathedral 51 min 52 ft   Extended Horizons II Hawaiian cleaner wrasse, soldierfish, gold lace nudibranch, white mouth moray, rock-moving wrasse
402 206   4/18/2009 Palos Verdes Christmas Tree Cove 45 min 61 ft   Whaler Chilly; so-so vis, better at deep end of reef; many calicos, sheephead, sunflower stars; one very large sand bass bolted from a hole; many nudibranchs deep; garibaldi-pruned nest
403 207   9/20/2009 Palos Verdes Neptune Transverse Reef 51 min 52 ft   Whaler Balmy (63 F at 52 ft); many calicos and sheephead; two octopus
404 208   10/10/2009 Palos Verdes Haggerty's 40 min 34 ft   Whaler Great vis (~30 ft), warm (66 F); only short lobsters; torpedo ray
405 209   10/25/2009 Palos Verdes Buchanan's Reef 63 min 66 ft   Delta Boat Spectacular vis (50 ft+), warm water (64 F), many fish. Roaming octopus, bait schools
406 210   10/25/2009 Palos Verdes Christmas Tree Cove 65 min 57 ft   Orion III Excellent vis (~40 ft), many large sheephead, bait schools
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