The Oil Rigs & Catalina Dive
By Andy Loska
We boarded the Sun Diver with 19 divers aboard. The first dive
was on the oil rig Eureka the current was moving but not at a speed that made
the diving unsafe as diving in the open water of the channel can be dangerous.
I first dive group entered the water about 8:30 a.m. and enjoyed a wonderful
dive, alive with color and wildlife, as the came up the second group readied
themselves for the dive, the visibility was layer was around 30 to 70 feet
best around the 60 foot area. We were all briefed of the locations that we
were to be diving and the choices were excellent. As for me (Dan-editor) this
was my first rig dive and even though most everyone said the visibility was
bad, I found it to be one of the best I have had for a long time and now I
know why everyone I every spoke to about rig diving said "What you've never
been on an Oil Rig Dive". Although this was my first time diving the rigs,
I opted out of the second dive on the Emi-Eli rig as was a good choice the
divers that dove that rig said it was not as nice as the first rig. We finished
our diving that day at Italian gardens in search of Black sea bass. Most divers
headed out and to the right of the site and no luck in finding the black sea
bass, yet two of the divers headed to the left and they found them about three.
In all it was a great day of diving.
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