Dive Report 16 August




The water temperature was eighty-four and the vis was between fifteen and twenty feet, BUT diving at the Bridge right now, and for the past week, is an unpleasant experience as there are countless moon jellyfish and sea lice. By the boat channel it was almost impossible to avoid the thousands of moon jellyfish. The sea lice are invisible, but their sting is very noticeable. My very tough thirteen-year-old Discover Scuba student and I did a forty-eight minute dive mostly dodging the jellies and enduring the sea lice. We did see a batfish and played with an octopus under the blue sailboat in twelve feet of water where the sea lice and jellyfish were tolerable. Unless a diver is COMPLETELY covered (impossible to do for anyone other than a hazmat diver) he/she will experience the unpleasantness of the "stingies" at the Bridge right now. Hope for better conditions so we can "Get in the water" comfortably, Ham