Last Saturday, there was indeed a small gray whale cruising from Monastery to Pt Lobos. It spent about an hour feeding on the krill ball Jay saw near Coal ...
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raiderkarl@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:13 pm
Chuck Tribolet <triblet@g...> Sun May 27, 2001 5:21 am [wrote:] "Finally, if you don't want to be on a boat with guns, don't wait till you show up at the dock...
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Curt Degler
cdegler@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:14 pm
Anyone out there have used visual plus inspection equipment for sale? This is the device used to check for cracks in aluminum tank necks. I'm doing this for a...
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Chuck Tribolet
triblet@...
Jun 1, 2001 8:40 pm
A BS in Industrial Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering. All in four and a half years. ... -- Chuck Tribolet triblet@... ...
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Keith Grundy
keithsg@...
Jun 2, 2001 12:18 am
While out on a multi-day trip aboard the Vision Memorial Day weekend, I had two interesting pinniped encounters. The encounters took place at San Miguel,...
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debbie mikuteit
dmikuteit@...
Jun 2, 2001 12:49 am
A lot of people have lost and many have also found items in the water over the years, and this message made me wonder if there might be a way we could set up ...
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Robert Roach
raroach@...
Jun 2, 2001 4:46 am
On May 22, 2001, a Monterey County jury convicted two men of poaching abalone. The judge sentenced each defendant to pay a fine of $3,600 and spend time in...
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Andrew A. Voss
webmaster@...
Jun 2, 2001 3:34 pm
Lex- It's interesting that lately everyone has been seeing lots of larvae in the water. I'm pretty sure that this phenomenon is due to what oceanographers...
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mopsyd@...
Jun 2, 2001 5:06 pm
While on a night dive recently in Whaler's Cove, Ranger Loomis ran across an old style anchor standing upright in 25 feet of water, in the sand near Cannery...
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debbie mikuteit
dmikuteit@...
Jun 2, 2001 6:36 pm
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Paul Braunbehrens
Bakalite@...
Jun 2, 2001 8:08 pm
I could add one more reason why this would be beneficial to the shop. After loosing that $8000 dollar video light, and realizing that you won't get it back,...
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Chuck Tribolet
triblet@...
Jun 2, 2001 10:02 pm
... With that wind, I decided it would be best to not go south. Just as we left the dock. there was a Mayday. Some fisherman off Del Monte was drifting into...
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Jeff Limes
jefflimes@...
Jun 2, 2001 11:32 pm
chuck, don't forget the money for that hole OBTW thanks for the updates, and their regularity "no pun intended" hope tomorrow brings better things ... ...
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Joe Malin
jmalin@...
Jun 3, 2001 2:39 am
Greetings! Been seeing lots of new (for me) stuff this year while diving: 1. Ubiquitous small snail/nudibranch, pale white fading into deep blue fronds with...
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Joe Malin
jmalin@...
Jun 3, 2001 2:39 am
My dive buddy and I were planning to dive Monastery but bagged it even before we reached Manta Ray. Chuck's site clued me in that wave height would be big, so...
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Chuck Tribolet
triblet@...
Jun 3, 2001 2:46 am
The barge isn't off Del Monte, it's off the Breakwater. It's a bear to find from the beach because the ranges are difficult to see from water level but easy...
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Chuck Tribolet
triblet@...
Jun 3, 2001 2:56 am
Either it's a snail (has a shell, in general) or a nudibranch (doesn't, in general). Blue cerata doesn't ring a bell at all. Did you have a light? Could it...
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LEONARD Tsai
ltsai@...
Jun 3, 2001 4:34 am
Viz all over Monterey seems to be pretty bad. Lover's was miso soup, with less than 5 feet viz. ... From: Joe Malin [mailto:jmalin@...] Sent: Saturday,...
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Andrew A. Voss
webmaster@...
Jun 3, 2001 3:00 pm
After discussing this with the management, I'd like to announce that the Monterey Bay Dive Center would be happy to coordinate the lost and found for local...
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Joe Malin
jmalin@...
Jun 3, 2001 3:20 pm
Don't think it was a sea hare, might have been. No evidence of a flap or fin. Much more red than brown and no blotching, very ruddy colored. And less like...
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Gary
oceanview50@...
Jun 3, 2001 8:13 pm
Two Aluminum 80 Tanks For Sale. Both have recently been hydrotested and have had V+ visual inspections performed. "K" valves are included. One of the tank's...
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raiderkarl@...
Jun 3, 2001 8:59 pm
After receiving several emails about my buddy request for freediving for abalone this past Saturday 6/2/2001, I was very lucky to have heard from a...
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artfxsf@...
Jun 3, 2001 11:57 pm
Glad you made it back from the terrifying world of freedive abalone hunting. Several points: Bruce Watkins has gotten death treaths for revealing secret ab...
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Chuck Tribolet
triblet@...
Jun 4, 2001 12:58 am
The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society will host its 20th annual California Beach Dive Photo Competition in Monterey on June 23rd and 24th....
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MikeLan@...
Jun 4, 2001 1:54 am
On my last dive at Point Lobos, April 15, I found an anchor I had not seen before. It was big (6 feet or so long), and there was nothing subtle about it. It...
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Steve Campi
scampi@...
Jun 4, 2001 4:00 am
raiderkarl, Generally, if the gonad is pink/cream color the abalone is a male. If blue, a female. Steve Campi http://www.cencal.org...
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Clinton Bauder
gecko1@...
Jun 4, 2001 7:34 am
... Could be juvenile Dendronotis iris nudibranchs. I saw a lot of them on Sat. They are amazingly variable in color. Here are some examples: ...
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kteague@...
Jun 4, 2001 1:55 pm
Sorry, this is way off topic but is anyone else having problems submitting messages to this forum via the yahoo web form we're presented with? My problem seems...
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Joe Malin
jmalin@...
Jun 4, 2001 2:46 pm
Thanks, Clint! I don't think it was a dendronotis iris. This looked pretty much like a snail would without a shell, 2 distinct horns on one end, back arraned...
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raiderkarl@...
Jun 4, 2001 3:57 pm
"Go north and dive in murky, pounding shallow water ..." AB-solutely positively right about that! All I wanted to do was check out this boulder, which was...
