Scuba Dive: Wed, May 1, 2024 - Chamber Day Dive at Bird Rock - Arches, Catalina, CA

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 I participated in Chamber Day. This is a 1-day fund raiser for the USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber.
The USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber’s primary mission is the treatment of scuba diving casualties, and to this end the organization maintains the chamber facility and ensures crew availability 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year. During the Chamber Day / Chamber Night and associated fundraising over half of the necessary funds to operate the chamber for the year are raised. If you are interested in donating to the Chamber Fund, please go to ChamberDay.org.
As a diver participant on the May 1 boats we had the opportunity to make two dives at Catalina plus a walking tour of the Chamber facilities.
I was on the Pacific Star (PacStar) for the day, along with my dive buddy, Dan Howard. Our boat toured the chamber facilities first and then made our dives.
The second dive we made was just off of Bird Rock. The plan was to descend down the anchor to the reef and head west to locate the Arch. We looked for more swim-thrus and arches along the way.
Site Information:
Bird Rock
Primary Arch Depth: 45ft
Depth: Ranging from shallow water to over a hundred feet deep.
"The underwater terrain varies from shallow reefs, a steep drop off down a wall, and even an underwater arch. We have been on dive charter boats at Bird Rock with a range of skill levels from certification classes to advanced divers and every body seems to come up smiling."
- California Dive News
This is a full-length video with my raw clips edited together only to show what my dive was like.
Diving Info:
Dive Time (Start): 1:52pm
Dive Time (End): 2:37pm
Breathing Gas: Compressed Air 21%
Max Depth: 67.6ft
Total Dive Time: 44 min 25 sec
Vis: 10-20ft
Bottom Temp: 55F (Shearwater)
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