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A New Year’s Eve to Remember

Just after the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve and a few glasses of champagne, another passenger aboard the boat said excitedly “come outside – you’ve got to see this!”
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Off to San Clemente aboard the Horizon

It’s great to be back on one of my favorite boats – the Horizon. We’re currently under way, headed out to spend New Year’s Eve at San Clemente Island
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Tube-Dwelling Anemones and Bay Pipefish at La Jolla Shores

Despite a large surf advisory today, the water was very clear at La Jolla Shores. We dived to a maximum of 63′ at the edge of the La Jolla submarine canyon
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Diving with Garibaldi at La Jolla Cove

Today was a classic example of a perfect Southern California summer day in La Jolla. The water temperature at La Jolla Cove was a balmy 70 degrees in the shallows.
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Dive-a-Thon Update

The last few days have taken us from the sandy shallow waters of La Jolla Shores, to the caves and shallow reefs of La Jolla Cove, to the surge-laden waters off Cardiff State Beach – all in search of new things to photograph, and to log 1,627 minutes underwater since July first.

Despite warnings of Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas) in the area, we’ve checked out several great new locations
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Dive-a-Thon, Days 2 and 4 at La Jolla Shores with the Sand Dollars

The Dive-a-Thon is off to a great start – I have logged 377 minutes underwater in the last five days, and donations have started to come in. Thank you to all who have stepped up to support me in the Dive-a-Thon so far!

The last two day of diving were spent shooting photos at La Jolla Shores in the eleven to sixty foot range, near the edge of the La Jolla Submarine Canyon


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Dive-a-Thon, Day 1 at La Jolla Shores

Today is a landmark day – not only is this the first dive report posted to the new Dive Reports section of wildoceanphoto.com, but it is also the first day of the San Diego Oceans Foundation 2009 Dive-a-Thon. If you haven’t already, please read the post about how Wild Ocean Photo is supporting the Dive-a-Thon. My current goal is to spend 2,000 minutes underwater during July 2009
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