Jared Adkins
United States
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Nº41
Date: 2022-11-13 - 10:00
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Max Depth: 27.4m Duration: 44mins
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- Temp: Surf 17°C Bottom 15°C
- Dive type : Recreational, Photo
- Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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- Weights: 9.1 kg
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- 2832L Steel 241 → 48 bar
- Average depth: 18.3m
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Dive Buddies: Adam Pierce, Sean Forbes
The rains earlier in the week staved us off for a bit, but I was itching to get back in the water. And Adam's back! After his tech dive trip to Cabo, he and Sarah caught COVID and weren't diving for a couple weeks. We did marine room after hearing reports all week of great conditions all around La Jolla. Saw some two-tank rebreather divers with DPVs going out as well.
Surface swim was easy, with visibility starting bad and then suddenly opening up to around 25 ft. No signs of life in the shallows, though.
We descended right at the edge of the canyon and headed southeast. Not much big life, but lots of little nudibranchs (San Diego dorid, opalescent, Spanish shawl, and lots of navinax), some baby sheepshead, lobsters, and sleeping two-spot octopus in their dens. We turned earlier than normal for Adam (maybe Sean was at turn pressure, he was finning a lot and silting up the water quite a bit) and headed uphill to the edge of the sea grass. Lots of kelp bass swimming around in the grass and a few old buoy heads with strawberry anemones and other life and them.
We surfaced with still a little ways to go back to shore, so I veered towards the reef with my snorkel to see if there was any life over there. Sure enough, I heard some other snorkelers sounding ecstatic and found they were observing a large pack of leopard sharks! I counted two groups of about a dozen each. All in all a good dive and great to go out with Adam again.