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There is a site here in California (Monastery Beach) which has a wall that gets quite deep right off shore. The first ledge starts at about 190', and is within 100 yards of shore; charts show that it drops over 10000' within a mile. I have done a number of air dives at this site, but am curious to see if there is anything interesting much beyond the ledge. Since the wall is accessible from shore, I've thought about doing a shore-entry gas dive to 300' or so at the site. Has anybody on the list ever tried a shore-entry ocean gas dive at a site like this? It would be easy to do this dive from a boat, but the thought of a shore gas dive is intriguing. The hardest part of this dive would be entry through heavy surf and surge, which are common here. I have been knocked over and rolled around in the surf zone just wearing doubles, much less a couple of stage bottles. Support divers would be needed to swim deco tanks past the surf zone, and ideally to the dropoff. Deco bottles would have to be carried on the dive, and setting up a downline in the surge might be a problem so deco would probably have to be executed while swimming up the wall, or possibly under a liftbag. Small deco bottles, like overfilled 45s, would be ideal for short dives. Kinda makes me miss places like Cheryl - at least there you can clip your deco bottles to the line, and they will (probably) be there when you get back. Since I don't follow techdiver regularly, please reply to me directly. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------ John H. Heimann Sr. Product Manager Oracle Corporation Security Products 500 Oracle Pkwy, Box 659410 415-506-9750 (phone) Redwood Shores, CA 94065 415-506-7226 (fax) -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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