June 19, 2010 Dives - La Jolla Shores

On Saturday, June 19, 2010, the plan was to do two dives at La Jolla Shores.

While George Robison, Ken Patrick and I were gearing up, the first buddy team went out to start their first dive. They never made it through the surf! One especially powerful wave hit them as they were nearly out and snapped the tank band on one diver's BCD. They almost lost the tank, but Will managed to grab it and assist them back to shore. They decided not to attempt it again.

We were nearly ready, but another team went first, so we decided to watch and see how they did. They made it all the way through the breakers and we thought they were good to go. The next thing we knew they were walking back through the surf and being assisted by Will and Mark.

Just then another group of divers from a local club came back from an earlier dive and suggested to us that we not bother. The viz in the trench was about 2 feet, so they had come back up onto the shelf and attempted to do a free descent and everyone lost his buddy due to poor viz.

I called the dive for our group since I was not going to take George out in that. That was the end for our whole group. Everyone bailed when I did.