Hey Frond! 🌊🐚🐠 I've gotta say I Love this. I use it to force naps upon myself lol And even study. Thank you for the cold water magic!!! Listening to your rhythmic scuba breathing is so steadying and calming as swell.
The right side is has more kelp but the left side the drop off is more abrupt and comes up quickly,my dive buddy and I hit 110’ very quickly and found the shelf as a staircase of rocks climbing up to around 80’ ,anemones are huge and fish are very big because the water is deeper and more open. Anywhere out there is a great dive, just read the water and weather before diving 👍
Thanks B! The goal for me would eventually be to upload *all* the sightings from a dive, because we need that background “baseline” info just as much as the outlier stuff. I often have my exciting ones up first because that feels so gamified but I’m trying to get better at taking the time to upload all the stuff i can recognize or that could realistically be recognized later… You never know what’ll be the important to someone else!
It was huge!! From the narcosis/excitement it was hard to gauge exactly how big but it reminded me of some of the bigger ones at the Aquarium, which were like 60lbs and over 12 feet across, but hard to know… Yes off Big Sur the water was like 47-48 that year with the upwelling, rough in my old wetsuit ahah
Thank you for another great video - love your channel! It helps me to deal with the surface interval 😅. Really enjoy your insights into marine biology and photography. Keep going!
Heya! As I understand it, we don't need dive flags or buoys at this site because power boats avoid this area due to a mix of regulations and community practice because it's such a heavily dove site, especially right there along the breakwall. There are some spots you can swim to from the wall that end up in the boat lanes (like the barge or Metridium fields) but if you're swimming that far, you're also definitely trying to get back closer to shore before surfacing, and you would shoot an SMB if you needed to. It isn't as big a deal here as it is in Hawaii or Florida for example, there's not as much traffic where the dives and boats intersect, and if you are diving out that far you're probably on a dive boat anyway.
Thanks for watching everyone! Hope the mic wasn't too too hot for y'all. I'll be skipping forward to film and record some fresher vids here-any questions you have for me you want answered? Lemme know and I'll get to them next ep! Thanks again for the support everyone, best fishes, Pat.
Great job, super interesting and very engaging. You must burn a lot of air with all the dialogue! Like you when filming I generally dive alone but at very conservative depths. I live in Denmark but originally from the UK and ex BBC filming. So cold water diving in the winter here but very nice in the summer months.
