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The 28th annual Avalon Bay underwater cleanup was a huge success this year, with over 400 divers taking the plunge and pulling out wallets, watches, glass bottles and jar, and other detritus that found its way into Avalon Bay.
One of the most surprising finds was that no fewer than eight glasses and jars were home [...]
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Posted by Jeff Lewis on February 25th, 2009 | Posted in Avalon Events, Diving, Island Update | 2 Comments »
I attended a presentation a few days ago given by California Ships to Reefs to discuss the possibility of bringing a new, 50-foot shipwreck to Catalina’s Casino Point dive park. Ships to Reefs is best known as the offshoot of the group that sank the Yukon in San Diego’s Mission Bay.
The ship they are proposing [...]
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Posted by Jeff Lewis on February 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Diving, Island Update | 1 Comment »
Roger Uzun of San Diego, CA put together a gorgeous, high-definition video of a dive trip he took to Catalina in August that really shows off the clarity of the water and some of the amazing sea life we have here. There is some amazing footage of Black Sea Bass towards the end, and [...]
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Posted by Catalina Way on January 24th, 2009 | Posted in Diving, Island Update | No Comments »
Two years ago, the fishing trawler Infidel sank a few miles off the southern tip of Catalina, and took with it a nine thousand pound fishing net that grew tangled over the wreak and became a deadly trap for sea life, killing dolphins, sharks, seals and sea lions, and other sea life that became entangled [...]
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Posted by Jeff Lewis on January 13th, 2009 | Posted in Diving, Island Update | No Comments »
In December of 2007 the Travel Channel’s “Cash & Treasures” show came out to Two Harbors to do a piece on Lobsters (you know what they say… one man’s bottom feeder is another man’s treasure). The show aired in the spring of 2008. It was great fun having them film here. The days were long but [...]
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Posted by Hilary Boyce on January 10th, 2009 | Posted in Diving, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
I recevied this email the other day from a fellow diver and long time friend of Two Harbors.
“While SCUBA diving near the town of French Harbor in the Bay Islands of Honduras, Insurance Broker Mike Blecher came across this sign…
(PS: Mike reports the warm water diving was nice, but there’s a lot more fish to see [...]
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Posted by Hilary Boyce on April 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Diving | No Comments »
This morning we awoke to the VHF radios buzzing about Orca (killer whales) sightings off the island. A bunch of us got in our boats and went out to see for ourselves. It was amazing! There were little family groupings of Orcas all over the place. They were moving toward the west end and passed [...]
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Posted by Hilary Boyce on April 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Diving, Two Harbors Boating | No Comments »
