Boundary Wall Dive, La Jolla Cove, San Diego, CA
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- Опубліковано 3 лис 2024
- Its a long swim and its deep. I'd never try it with choppy surface conditions as the swim would be miserable and exhausting. Its miserable and exhausting anyways. Someone mentioned that this can be done as a boat dive and its by far the better/safer option. Quick correction about something I said regarding the urchins eating all the kelp. It seems that their main predator, the sunflower sea star has been dyeing off because of a new disease. Without any predators the urchin population is exploding and they're eating all the kelp.
Max depth: 130' (depending on the mix I'm diving that day)
Average: 65.8'
Dive Length: 50 min
Min Temp: 51F
Corrections:
2:48 The "rockfish" is actually a juvenile greenling.
7:50 The fish hiding in the algae is a giant kelpfish
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0:00 Dive Overview
0:45 Start Of Dive
8:18 Surface
Amazing dive! I've been diving La Jolla over the years and never heard about Boundary Wall.
Awesome channel!
Thanks! I think you don't hear much about it because of its depth and how far the swim is but its a great dive.
Thanks for the narrative and info.
You bet!
Since youre in SD. Last time I snorkled jn the L J cove the red tide was so bad we couldnt see anymore than a foot or two in front in front of us. Nice to see this clip. Have a safe trip back.
Thanks! Ya, the red tides can get pretty bad sometimes :(
Awesome video it's great to see so much life in our ocean
@Jimmy Delaney marine life snails, algae , and fish to name a few
@@adventureawaits5003 The 7 gill sharks and giant sea bass are some of my favorite
Monterey diver here. That urchin looked fine, it’s the purple urchins that are devastating the kelp forests up here. Most shops around here run courses on how to kill the little bastards.
The bigger darker ones? Is all that happening in Monterey as well? For some reason I thought it was farther north.
@@SDScuba Smaller purple one. Rocks get covered in them, you’ll see entire reefs with nothing but the urchins all over them an nothing else. It’s pretty bad.
@@mikesbigadventures194 coming from another Monterey diver, it sucks seeing entire kelp beds wiped out closer to shore like by asilomar
@@yourmumcallsmedad Right? That barren at Pt Lobos is the worst because that area was such a great dive when the kelp was healthy. Lobos is still one of the best sites around but it was so much more incredible when that forest was healthy
Great video, keep it up. As you were gliding through my mind kept trying to spot Nudibranch lol
Haha, thanks! I'm probably the worst nudibranch spotter there is.
You should launch an SMB when doing a blue water ascent.
That's a great point. A lot safer to warn boats that divers are below.
Funny story about that though. One time when we were trying to identify lineups for a dive, we tied off our SMB to an old concrete block, then ascended so we could choose lineups.
We then headed back to shore to grab fresh tanks. While we were on shore we saw a kayaker trying to retrieve our smb that clearly said "DIVER DOWN" on it.
The guy was pulling really hard but it was tied off on the bottom so he eventually gave up.
If we'd been on a safety stop I would have had to let go and he would have taken it.
But you're still correct, its safer to deploy a SMB. I get comfortable diving in a preserve with very little boat traffic but we should be deploying.
Scuba squad!
What cam are you using? Great vid, thank you
I shot this with the Gopro 8.
Finally La jolla Cove！
Sort of La Jolla Cove. Maybe I could have created a better title but this isn't the normal cove dive. Its much farther out than most people ever go.
I did a more traditional cove dive a while back but should probably do another with more info.
So... what's the rule with snagging a few of these gorgonians for a saltwater tank at home?.. 😁😏
Marine protected area. Also, you likely aren’t maintaining a cool enough tank, though I don’t know your setup. They like temps in the 50’s and below. Above that they start to cook.
Buy one, this is marine protected area and even if it was not you still cant do that to coral. It took thousands of years for those to be made and so manny people mess it up for everyone else, this spot is so nice because its so far out most people use scooters to reach it. This dive site has a special place in my heart. Please rethink your mindset.
@@justinshepa Too late. I have a team of Nigerians harvesting them for me and my business is already booming.
Boundary wall doesn’t exist anymore. Whale must have rubbed itself on the wall and flattened it all out to boring sand. Nothing to see here
It was there in Dec of 2023.