Video of SCUBA diving in Monterey

Last weekend Scott and I went for a couple of dives in Monterey (where else!). We left really early in the morning in order to dive Lover's Cove, which has an 11 am cutoff time for divers. We entered the water at beach #3, intending to swim around the big rock outcropping to beach #2. The conditions were better than great - 40 foot vis and no swell - however, a couple of fishermen perched up on the rock deterred us from swimming around it. Don't want to become ensnared in fishing line or get hooked!

I had disconcerting issue with my BC the first dive - it didn't inflate fully and I was having to work pretty hard to stay on the surface. It was difficult to keep my head above water and think of what the problem could be at the same time. It was the first time I've been seriously tempted to ditch my weights. Turns out manually inflating the BC the rest of the way did the trick.

For our second dive we took it easy and just did the Breakwater wall. I brought my camera along and shot some short movies. When I got home I started pasting the footage together in iMovie and had so much fun I decided to compose some music for it too using the GarageBand software! Pretty basic techno, but I like the way it turned out. Enjoy!