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BAUE Trip Reports
2/14/2004 Valentine's Day Reef aboard Escapade by Clinton Bauder -- [View this report only]
| Bottom Team: |
Clinton Bauder, Joe Talavera |
| Visibility: |
15' - 25' |
Time: | 4:00 PM |
| Temp: |
52F |
Surge: |
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| Max Depth: |
195FSW |
Avg Depth: |
185FSW |
| Bottom Time: |
0:26 |
Total Time: |
1:32 |
| Bottom Gases: |
18/45 | Deco Gases: | EAN50,O2 |
| Backgas Config: |
Double LP104 | Deco Tanks: | AL40,AL80 |
| Deco Profile: |
Deep Stops, 3,3,6,6,4,4,5,
12 on, 6 off, 6 on, 6 up |
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Diving with Joe, Susan and Beto on a Saturday afternoon deep dive in the bay. We poked around for a while north of Aumentos looking for some diveable reef. Eventually we found some suitable structure in the 190 foot range and dropped a downline.
Vis was so-so at best making for an almost surreal descent into the inky abyss. After what seemed like an eternity we finally started picking out some metridiums in our light beams. The reef here has about 15 feet of vertical relief with lots of metridiums, gorgonians and cup corals. Beto quickly found a basket star sitting in one of the gorgonians. Later we also saw serveral wolf eels and some interesting sponges.
Right as Joe and I were about to call our dive I spotted an interesting nudibranch on the sand. To Joe's exasperation I dropped back down, turned on the camera and got some quick video of the branch which turned out to be a nocturnal critter I'd never seen before called Armina californica. I guess the lack of light (and I mean almost total lack of light) was the same thing as night for the nudibranch. Anyway after getting a quick shot I came back up and we were on our way only a minute or so late.
Still frames from the dive can be viewed here. |
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