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Stormy Dives
December 06, 2009
Story by Sharon
All week we were storm watching and hopeful we would hit a window to dive. Getting to Monterey was difficult this day as we were stopped on South 101 for 40 minutes due to a 4 car accident. But once the CHPs allowed us to turn around on the freeway, we found an alternative route thru San Jose to get south.
Arriving in Monterey 10 minutes before 7 am, we made it. Jim was still organizing people and such so all was good. The air was about 40 degrees, cold only till we slipped in our dry suits. The marine forecast was 6-9’ waves, winds 11-17 knots, building by afternoon. So maybe we could pull off these dives. Motoring to Carmel, Greg got a little south of Pt Pino’s. As he watched the waves build and the sky get darker, he was concerned that after the first dive, the waves would be out of control. So we turned and headed back in the bay. We checked Ball Buster, too many white caps, too far out and no protection. So finally we anchored on Outer Lover’s, a site out of the wind with only a little chop. Geared, we were off. Les dropped down to put in the reel to ease navigation in the bad viz we expected. Soon Jim, Marc and Clinton were over the side. Clinton was donned with his camera; we’ll see if he gets something. Last off were Sharon and Masao. As we descended, the water was green and dark. You had to watch the Nettle jellies as there were many tentacles wrapped around the anchor line. Once near the bottom it was dark as a night dive. No surge and about 10’ viz. Sharon and Masao looked around for Les and after a few minutes, she pulled out her spool. She tied in on a pointed rock and went exploring. They found metridiums pulled in awaiting the storm. Kelp bass and graylings were tucked in every crack. Clinton spied a couple of Spanish shawls. The mini reef provided a home for many soft corals, sponges and starfish. They found several sand dollars in the near by sand at 79’. About 47 minutes later, we were on the anchor line dodging the jellies. Back on the boat, everyone discussed their dive and enjoyed Sharon’s homemade ginger bread cookies.
Motoring to the next dive site, we anchored on Macabee Pinnacle. This looked pretty accommodating. The pinnacles comes about 40’ to the surface and the sand is about 55’. Geared and over the side, Sharon and Masao tied in and went exploring. We followed along behind Jim and Clinton for a short while. When we stopped to look at several nudibranches, we looked up and they had disappeared in the green. We kicked along one side of the small rock wall, finding blood red anemones and even a small red octo! We didn’t mean to disturb him, but we did and he was gone, camo’d in the rocks. We swam thru the kelp seeing all the regular sea life. Even in the poor viz, it is all there, you just have to go slow and look closer. It was a great dive.

We pulled it off. 2 great dives on the edge of a storm.



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