Michael Bear
Rapture of the Deep
2 min readMay 25, 2017

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Wens. Afternoon Marine Room Dive (South Canyon Wall)

Time: 4 pm

Weather: warm, sunny

Surf: 1–2 ft/sloppy surf

Viz: The Green Gloom down to around 70 ft, then opened up below, to around 15ft or so

Max Depth: 113 ft.

Bottom Temp: 55 F

Dive buddy: Charles Lofton​

Comments:

We headed out to the South Canyon wall, which I hadn’t been to in a couple years, so it was nice, with lots of cool rock (sandstone) formations and more crabs than I had seen in while. Too much trash, as always: I brought back the blue fin, but couldn’t drag the 6 ft lawn chair back in.

Saw a Lewis’ Moon Snail, which I hadn’t seen in quite a while.

Nice conditions — get out there while they last.

From left to right: Yellow crab, dive buddy using rebreather and a Lewis’ Moon Snail

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