Dive #395

Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Deadman's Reef
Depth (feet): 50
Dive Time (minutes): 86
Surf (feet): 1-3+
Surge (feet): 1-2
Water Temp (fahrenheit): 62
Visibility (feet): 25+
Visibility Description: Awesome
Notes and Highlights: Dove with Len and Brett - original intent was lobster hunting, but utter failure revises to a fun dive. And a fun dive it was - some surf, but easy to avoid with timing, and a quick swim to the end of the point. Dropped into about 30' of crystal clear, beautiful water. Took a heading and ran right up Deadhenge. Took a left and swam around the reef...quite literally. A lot of life out - tons of fish...large and small. Lots of spanish shawl nudibranchs and 2 horn sharks - one that was an easy 4 feet and very, very solid looking...beautiful animal. A lot of current on the backside, and what I assume (hope) was clouds of reef spawining that would occasionally take the vis to nearly zero in very defined areas. We came back up over the reef just south of Deadhenge, and followed it along and then set out over the sand for the beach. Crabs, rays, cusk eels and a brown shrimp were among the many sand-dwelling animals we got to see on the leisurely swim back to just under 10 feet of water. No lobsters were harmed, and a great time had by all!