Category: Wreck Diving
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Photo of the Week: Painted Greenling (and a Bonus Hermissenda Nudibranch)
Those who have been following this blog for any length of time will recall that finding tiny surprise creatures in a photo is one of my favorite things in the whole world.
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This Spanish Shawl is the Goldilocks of Nudibranchs
In unpredictable surge and weird currents, it’s a challenge and a half to get a Spanish Shawl photo “just right.”
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Photo of the Week: Atlantis Submarine
Ever feel like you’re being watched? Of course you have; we all have. Ever hear a strange whirring sound underwater, and think, “Oh, I’m just being watched by about 50 kids in a tourist submarine?” No? Me neither.
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11 Interesting Facts about the USS Moody Destroyer Wreck
In San Pedro Bay, about 140 feet down, rests the wreck of USS Moody (DD-277). Moody, one of 156 Clemson-class destroyers, has a rich and interesting history. Here are 11 fun facts about the ship, its class, and its story.
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Anacapa’s Airplane Wreck: TBF Avenger
It’s 1944: two Navy bombers collide midair while participating in a training exercise over Anacapa Island. One goes down on the back side of the island and is never found. The other hits the ocean on the front side of middle Anacapa and sinks to the bottom. Between the two planes, three crewmen are killed.…
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Photo of the Week: Grumman TBF Avenger Airplane Wreck
Diving the TBF Avenger is just plain cool. Was that bad? That was bad.
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Photo of the Week: Cyclosalpa affinis
DID YOU KNOW that the salp, while it looks like a jellyfish, is actually a tunicate, a member of the phylum Chordata, and is more closely related to vertebrates than it is to jellies?
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A Second Dive on the UB-88 Submarine Wreck
In just shy of 200′ of water in San Pedro Bay is the wreck of the German submarine UB-88, the only u-boat shipwreck in California. I dove this wreck for the first time late last year and my post about it made waves, so to speak. Apparently I’m not the only one who’s into the…
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No Wolf Eel Left Behind
On Saturday, I got up at the ungodly hour of 4-something-a.m. and made the pilgrimage up to Long Beach to catch a charter out to dive the UB-88 submarine wreck. Sometimes, I think I’m doing “leisure” wrong.
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Diving The Kelp Cutter: The El Rey Wreck
Every once in a while, we get off the beaten path a bit and dive some of the less-often-seen shipwrecks of San Diego’s Wreck Alley. El Rey is one of those wrecks: I believe I’ve (now) dove it twice in my nearly three years here. Both times, though, I’ve been blown away with how fun the…