If you ever get the opportunity to dive So. California do it. There's some great diving there. One easy way is to make a trek to the city of Avalon on Catalina Island, spend the night at a local hotel, and do a shore dive at the Casino landmark. Its an easy shore dive, and typical of the area. Here's video taken a few weeks ago. There was a lack of giant kelp, but that will be back this summer. Lots of fish there, and they are used to being fed by the divers that simply banging your hands together bring them coming. FYI, video was taken with a GoPro Hero4 in a Deeppro systems domed housing. Enjoy...
Something different -Diving at Avalon
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Re: Something different -Diving at Avalon
Awesome video. Looks beautiful there.
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I learned to dive in Avalon circa 1990. Casino Point dive park rocks. I missed the ferry from long beach for my open water dive and took a helicopter to the island so i didn't miss out.
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Re: Something different -Diving at Avalon
I spent 3 days there last October, and we had just mind-blowing diving. Water conditions were wonderful, visibility was amazing, and as always, the water was full of life -- although the kelp is gone, and there were no nudibranchs :(
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Re: Something different -Diving at Avalon
Yes, Avalon is nice. But. if you like diving at Avalon.. you really should do some dives at other parts of the island from a dive boat. Mainland based boats will dive the Isthmus area that has much better diving. Video from a day of boat diving that I took last summer at the Isthmus is below.:
Re: Something different -Diving at Avalon
Thanks for sharing!
Definitely dives that I want to do someday!
Definitely dives that I want to do someday!
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"Warning: No dive masters are going to be there, Just a bunch of old fat guys taking pictures of fish." -Bassman
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Re: Something different -Diving at Avalon
Great video work as usual. And the clear water and colorful fish are fantastic. I would love to go check it out!
Re: Something different -Diving at Avalon
Nice video!
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