Our intrepid crew of Ad Hoc Divers met at Breakwater as early as possible 7-1-23. Earliest to arrive was at 7:30am, last just before 8am and we all managed to secure parking on a holiday weekend during a heatwave. Topside conditions were spectacular, full sun, warm and flat. Visibility was a bit compromised and snotty until 20' depth, at which point it opened up to a bit more than 15'.
First dive was along the wall. David Sheh and I clocked in a little over an hour at max depth 34' with a temperature of 55 degrees. Plenty of blues, a large lingcod, solitary but playful seal and plenty of nudibranchs - including many ribbon eggs formations.
Four our second dive all six of us, Oliver, Dave, David, Gian, Walter and myself headed out as a group along the Pipeline to the Metridium Fields. Our navigation was spot on - dropping straight down onto the Pipe when we were trying to circumvent a Kelp Crawl through the lush growth. Oliver kindly let me borrow his DPV and I found it very user friendly with a gentle learning curve. Only drawback I can think of is it removes any sense of diver bouyancy, so you either need to calculate for a change in depth, or be quick to vent when you cut the electric motor and stop.