Jared Adkins
United States
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Nº33
Date: 2022-10-10 - 06:33
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Max Depth: 18.3m Duration: 55mins
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- Temp: Surf 21°C Bottom 12°C
- Dive type : Recreational, Photo
- Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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- Weights: 9.1 kg
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- 64295000L Steel
- Average depth: 12.2m
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Dive buddy: Emily Strand
Another early morning dive with Emily! She seems to be the only one that'll get up early enough to squeeze in a dive before I take the kids to school. She brought me another homemade latte and I brought a partially consumed box of Reese's Puffs my neighbor gifted me for helping her move out of her apartment yesterday. What a step down from last week's scones lol
The surface swim out from Vallecitos was nice and easy. I spotted a medium size leopard shark in the surf before we were even waist deep in the water. The red tide is still in full effect so visibility was pretty bad at the surface, but the bioluminescence was still visible even in the early morning sunlight.
We dropped down just past the first shelf of the canyon into a patch of sea grass filled with life! I almost came down on top of a baby horn shark resting only a few inches from a nudibranch I hadn't seen before (Emily later identified it as a cockscomb). There were lots of navinax, more cockscomb, octopus, and at least half a dozen baby horn sharks! After we took in all the sights, we headed north on the shelf until it ended, finding big octos tucked into holes, a spanish shawl dancing on a blade of sea grass, rock crabs, and flounder.
At the end of the shelf, we ventured up the sand a bit until reaching the murk of the red tide above the thermocline where we hung out for a bit. I saw a huge bait ball swirling around the edge of our vision which I had fun herding around with my dive light.
Then we returned back downhill and across the sand flats a ways not finding much until I saw a bright spot reflecting my light back at me. We didn't have to get very close for me to recognize it as the eye of an angel shark, burrowed gently below the sand. I let Emily snap a few pictures of it before deciding it was a good place to turn the dive.
We didn't see much new on the way back - more crabs, flounder, octopus, and a couple more cockscomb and of course the swim into shore was very murky. I signaled Emily to ascend when I hit reserve pressure and we were greeted on the surface by four large pelicans bobbing for bait balls about 10 yards away. Great dive to start the week!