Date: 7/17/09
Location: HMCS Yukon, Wreck Alley, San Diego
Time in: 10:53 am
Time under: 41 min
Max depth: 97 ft
Min temp: 54 F
Vis: 25 ft
Waves: 2-3 ft swells
Gas: 32%
Buddies: Mikey Bear, Peter McGuinness, Jim Kinane

Dive #2:

Date: 7/17/09
Location: HMCS Yukon, Wreck Alley, San Diego
Surface Interval: 1:20 min
Time in: 12:54 pm
Time under: 33 min
Max depth: 91 ft
Min temp: 54 F
Vis: 25 ft
Waves: 2-3 ft swells
Gas: 32%
Buddy: Mikey Bear

Highlights: Great vis on the first dive, first time diving in a few weeks. Beautiful day out on the water.

I'll leave the dive reports to Mikey, since he does a better job than me of making it sound exciting. I was hoping to shoot macro and on the first dive, so I was really happy the vis was a really good 25 feet (below the much from 0-40 feet). It was also my first time diving the front half of the Yukon, so I got to see the forward guns. The crows nest (if that's what it's called) has to be my favorite part. It's completely covered in white metridium anemones.

We did a leisurely (and short) second dive, however, the muck started to extend down onto the wreck, so the vis wasn't nearly as good. I saw two jellyfish on the way down the line, but didn't have the camera ready yet. On the wreck, we saw the usual assortment, including sheep crabs (how do they climb all the way up there?).