Heading there this weekend for dive park diving on Sat and boat diving on Sun--from Houston Tx. Thanks for sharing your experience, helps me feel prepared for what I am in for :-)
So cool. You can just walk down the stairs, put your fins on and walk in? Sure beats a traditional shore dive where you have to walk across a bunch of sand and try and get your fins on while floating in the water. I’m gonna go there soon for sure. Thanks for the video. Beautiful diving and nice clear water.
You don’t have the ability to just go up if you get into trouble which is a defining feature of recreational diving. Also the chance of kicking up silt, getting disoriented, and not finding your way out are non trivial
We use a local shop with a tank subscription where it's $99 a year for 2 tanks a week steel or aluminum (depending on availability) Elsewhere it's usually $15+ a tank.
Yep, a few years back. If you check my website (First Church of the Masochist Dot com) I have a map of the route we used. The current one on Guthooks actually cuts things to 30 some miles vs we did 60 some
Lol I have a crazy fear of sharks, should I be worried If I swim there? I need to get my Diver's Certificate for my job but I can't get over those dang sharks.
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Heading there this weekend for dive park diving on Sat and boat diving on Sun--from Houston Tx. Thanks for sharing your experience, helps me feel prepared for what I am in for :-)
Great job Matt and Taters names of the sea life great. ✌️👊
Great video. Thanks for naming the fish.
So cool. You can just walk down the stairs, put your fins on and walk in? Sure beats a traditional shore dive where you have to walk across a bunch of sand and try and get your fins on while floating in the water. I’m gonna go there soon for sure. Thanks for the video. Beautiful diving and nice clear water.
Assuming it’s calm basically yes. If you have waves coming in it can get interesting
Good video. I never realized how close Catalina was to the mainland.
Yep! I was originally surprised that the channel
Islands exist right there off the coast of Los Angeles. It somehow seemed a bit incongruous
It's really cool someone put signs under water.
Google Scuba death sign. We find all sorts of useful info down there
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes dang, this might be an obvious answer but what makes cave diving so dangerous?
You don’t have the ability to just go up if you get into trouble which is a defining feature of recreational diving. Also the chance of kicking up silt, getting disoriented, and not finding your way out are non trivial
Nice adventure
Very cool
How much were tank rentals, do they have options of steal or aluminum?
We use a local shop with a tank subscription where it's $99 a year for 2 tanks a week steel or aluminum (depending on availability) Elsewhere it's usually $15+ a tank.
That's a long day. You better not screw that relationship up.
Some people stay in shelters or hostels instead of a stealth camp in the woods.
Have you ever hiked the trans Catalina trail?
Yep, a few years back. If you check my website (First Church of the Masochist Dot com) I have a map of the route we used. The current one on Guthooks actually cuts things to 30 some miles vs we did 60 some
Flip me, you must be exhausted...
Lol I have a crazy fear of sharks, should I be worried If I swim there? I need to get my Diver's Certificate for my job but I can't get over those dang sharks.
Chances of even seeing a shark is very low and any sort of attack is almost statistically unheard of. Much riskier driving down to the beach
Are guy scuba divers