Lobos Rock/Malpaso Creek South, Carmel

Date: 5–29–09

Locations: Lobos Rocks/Malpaso Creek South

Times: 10 am/12:21 pm

Dive Lengths: 38 mins/40 mins

Side Scan Sonar Image of Carmel Canyon….

Dive #843: Into the Yukon: Braille Diving in the ‘Green Gloom’

Date: 5/10/09

Location: Yukon, Wreck Alley

Time: 11: 20 am

Dive Length: 40 mins

Welcome to the New ‘Rapture of the Deep’

Hi, all:

I’d like to welcome you to the ‘new’ Rapture of the Deep blog: the continuation of the amazing adventures of an experienced San Diego diver.

Nudibranch: Dendronotus iris

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Sonar Image of Lobos Rocks…..

Anacapa: Nudibranch [Ancula gibbosa]

Scripps Institute: Birth of an Ocean….

The Sea of Cortez, or Gulf of California as it is known in the United States, is rich in history, which began long before John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts’ chronicled their seagoing accounts in 1940’s Log from the Sea of Cortez.

The ‘Dusk Patrol Gang’ on the Wall at La Jolla Shores

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Scientist Finds Possible RNA Key to Origin of Life…….

An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago.