tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312658092009-03-25T19:26:04.192-07:00This is my combination Scuba Diving Log and Blog. I'll post dive reports, underwater pictures and video here. I'll discuss scuba diving related articles and diving, ocean & marine related news and throw in my 2 psi. I may even announce new designs and promotions in our store. Feel free to comment on any post.Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08887404787065318288noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265809.post-3029598486038146952007-08-28T09:59:00.000-07:002007-08-28T10:14:46.718-07:00

Yet another celebrity made enviro-documentary has hit theaters. This one by Jack Dawson himself; Leonardo DiCaprio, entitled "The 11th Hour"."With help from more than fifty of the world's most prominent thinkers and activists, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, The 11th Hour documents the grave problems facing the planet's life

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I watch Shark Week on the Discovery Channel and always thought it interesting that the Guadalupe Island Great Whites travel hundreds of miles to Hawaii and are rarely seen. Seems new information may suggest that they pass the Hawaiian Islands up for a 'secret' mating ground in the Eastern Pacific Ocean; over 1500 miles east of the baja peninsula. The study appears in the latest issue of Marine

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1st AttemptDarin and I met up at Vista Pt., Lake Pleasant in search of the deep wall and railroad tracks that lie beyond; or so we've been told. We geared up to go deep but didn't make it that far as by the time we hit 65' we were diving by braille. Maybe in a month or so as the water cools and viz improves we'll try again, viz continues to be awful in the lake.Amazingly enough this was my only

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Headed to OCal to grab my kidz and get some diving in. I've had my new Steel X8-119 for some time now and yet to suck it down, so Saturday Larry and I met up at Wood's Cove in Laguna Beach, he with his 130 me with my 119.Conditions weren't great, viz was marginal and there was some strong surge. We attempted to find the outer reef structure but ended up just finding alot of sand, so kept most of

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A little of a delay with this report, my apologies. After many trips to Catalina as a diver and sailor, I had never dove in the dive park at Casino Pt. in Avalon. Upon hearing of this blasphemy in May some of my SoCal dive buddies Ruth & Larry planned a trip on my next visit. The date of 7-7-7 (07/07/2007) was purely coincidental but kind of cool.Ruth took the bull by the horns, and made all of

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#133#134#1356/15/20076/23/20076/23/2007TimeIn: 09:50TimeIn: 19:09TimeIn: 20:12MaxDepth: 41'MaxDepth: 35'MaxDepth: 32'BottomTime: 01:04BottomTime: 00:34BottomTime: 00:30BottomTemp: 70FBottomTemp: 73FBottomTemp: 77FBuddy(s): SOLOBuddy(s): Rachel,TaylorBuddy(s): Rachel,TaylorLocation: Vista Pt.Location: Doug's ReefLocation: Doug's ReefPurpose: FunPurpose: Fun/NightPurpose: Fun/Night#136#137#1386/30/

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For those of you that know me personally or have listened to my views on the various online scuba forums (as shark.byte.usa), your aware I have been in the past very anti-LDS (Local Dive Shop) at least in the Phoenix metro area. I somewhat prided myself in being independent and not having some, in my opinion, arbitrary devotion to a shop that when analyzed could only be construed as nothing more

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Dive #1305/19/2007Time In: 09:13Viz: 5-10'Bottom Temp: 64FBottom Time: 01:00Max Depth: 41'Buddy(s): SoloDive #1315/19/2007Time In: 11:55Viz: 5-10'Bottom Temp: 61FBottom Time: 00:51Max Depth: 47'Buddy(s): MikeDive #1326/1/2007Time In: 15:45Viz: 10-15'Bottom Temp: 66FBottom Time: 00:46Max Depth: 38'Buddy(s): RobCoupon: $5 off $40 Code SRV155B Expires June 6

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I've had better trips; I've had worse. Drove over to Southern California for Mother's Day weekend to get in some diving in La Jolla Submarine Canyon and Laguna Beach.Friday (5/11/2007), I was forewarned that the Red Tide had reared it's ugly head and anticipated the words out of Pete's mouth the night before, "We're diving Deadman's" (in order to get out and under the bloom).Met up with my buddy

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Just wanted to let you know I received a reply to an email I sent concerning the US screening distribution of the documentary Sharkwater. I was told that it will be in theaters in the US in September, which is still a ways off but at least it is coming hopefully to a theater near you.See a previous entry for more information about this film.

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Spent the weekend taking my PADI Resuce Diver course with Southwest Scuba. This was a course I was supposed to take back in November but a nasty ear infection kept me on the sidelines.Rob and Jen really put on a great course; which requires camping all weekend at the Lake, I'm not much of a camper. It was "Real" as in the rescue scenarios that are thrown at you throughout the weekend going above

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I wanted to share with you a glimpse of a documentary that will hopefully come to your area in the near future. Currently it is only being screened in Canada and New York.Synopsis: For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth

Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08887404787065318288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265809.post-56416770389516164972007-04-01T20:00:00.000-07:002007-04-02T08:28:19.673-07:00

Went to the lake and did a "last dive" at Scorpion Bay. I know I've said this a couple weeks ago, but now they have a sign saying, "This area closed Apr. 2, 2007, until further notice", it's inevitable , but we'll see if it's immediate. I brought the underwater camera along and shot some video during my scuba dive. Enjoy...Dive #122Time In: about 14:00Viz: 10-15'Bottom Temp: 57FBottom Time: 01:

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Big Mike and I headed to Lake Pleasant today. I wanted to shoot some video of Scorpion Bay which is closing Monday, they are building a new Marina on top of it, but it was blown out, which tends to happen, so we headed to Desert Tortoise/Two Cow.Dive #121Time In: 12:00Viz: 15-30'Bottom Temp: 57FBottom Time: 01:20Max Depth: 34'Buddy(s): Mike

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Headed to SoCal for some diving and fun last Wednesday. The rain had just stopped as I arrived in town and a NW swell was pounding North and West facing beaches, the two combined didn't help any shore scuba diving prospects.Thursday morning however despite the grim prospects I headed down to the South facing OC beaches, my call for buddies having been unanswered, I was looking to pimp myself out

Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08887404787065318288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265809.post-13432306508502743902007-03-20T20:00:00.000-07:002007-03-26T11:40:07.462-07:00

Headed to the lake and met up with DJ and Craig to do what is thought to be the last dives at Scorpion Bay for me. Word has it that they will starting construction on the new Marina on Monday 3/26. Skipper Buds said "dirt work" will start on 4/3/07.Dive #115Date: 03/20/07Time In: 9:35Viz: 25'Bottom Temp: 53FBottom Time: 00:37Max Depth: 51'Buddy(s): DJ & CraigDive #116Time In: 11:14Viz: 25'Bottom

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OK so it's been a heck of a beginning of the new year for me and the Get Bent Scuba Blog has suffered. To my readers I'm sorry and I am back to blogging now.So first things first, let's get the dive log up-to-date...Dive #103Date: 12/31/06Site: Wood's Cove, Laguna Beach, CA.Time In: 12:37Viz: 5-15'Bottom Temp: 59FBottom Time: 00:55Max Depth: 29'Buddy(s): Dale & JoseDive #104Date: 12/31/06Site:

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Had a lot of vacation to use up so I headed to Orange County for the holidays and most importantly to get some diving in. Arrived on Friday 12/22/06 to bad conditions, so Saturday was a non-diving day (NDD), however Mitchell called up and asked it I'd like to try my luck on Sunday, Mitchell is from Las Vegas and had been dry all week.Sunday (12/24/06) Mitchell and I headed over to Corona Del Mar

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The kidz, dog and I headed over to Lake Pleasant Friday night and joined Rob & Jen from Southwest Scuba for a campfire. Saturday headed back over for a dive; Rob and I decided to try to find the wall that I dove last weekend. We surface swam out from Scorpion Bay to in between the first and second buoy (from South to North) and headed East (out of the bay) and never found the wall, we must have

Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08887404787065318288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265809.post-1165815915731213222006-12-10T21:48:00.000-07:002006-12-10T22:52:01.913-07:00

Saturday (12/9/06) headed out to the lake to meet some old and new buddies, Art, Karen, John, Troy and Edison. Haven't been scuba diving since Thanksgiving so was looking forward to a dive. Everybody else in the group was diving doubles and drysuits, I felt so inadequate, so they passed on Scorpion Bay due to exit points being a problem with doubles and headed to Dirty Shirt.Buddied up with Troy

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The kidz, dog and I headed to "The OC" for Thanksgiving weekend for some turkey, scuba diving and the USC/Notre Dame football game.Thursday (Thanksgiving) met up with Ruth, Larry and Mitchell from ocdiving.com for a Thanksgiving scuba dive at Shaw's Cove, Laguna Beach. Conditions were stellar, not quite as good as last Thanksgiving, which was tropical, but very good nonetheless. Ruth and Larry

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10/28/06: 12 of us chartered the local dive boat, the Diver Down II, for a scuba diving excursion to the Old Waddell Dam. This dam is completely submerged and was breached in 1992 when the new Waddell/Pleasant Dam was completed about 1/2 mile up-stream, which added about 6,300 surface acres to the lake, tripling it in size. When the old concrete dam was built in 1927 is was the world's largest

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Threw the kids and dog in the truck and hauled ballz to SoCal for opening night of Lobster season, made the trip in less than 5 hours...(I can't drive 75!)Friday Night/Saturday Morning: Met up with Debbie Karimoto of OCdiving.com at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach at 11pm and was greeted by a good 25 other divers, it was a regular scuba divers convention. Made our way out of the 2' surf and

Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08887404787065318288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265809.post-1159823788281599372006-10-02T14:06:00.000-07:002006-10-02T14:17:59.720-07:00

Just a short recap to catch things up. Met Rob and Jen from SouthWest Scuba at the lake weekend before last (9/23/06) while they were having an AOW class. Jay came out for an afternoon dive. First two dives explored the newly found wall, then tagged along for the AOW night dive.Time In: 13:59, 16:32, 19:19Viz: 0-10', 0-10', 5-10'Bottom Temp: 66F, 66F, 74FBottom Time: 00:50, 00:51, 00:44Max Depth:

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