So the goal of this site is to share my experiences diving in California. There are some great sites out there with excellent reviews of diving spots up and down the coast. One is shorediving.com. Check it out.
First, a bit about myself. I started off abalone diving off of the Sonoma coast, then from there took up spearfishing. I also started scuba diving about a year ago. Spearfishing has probably become my favorite activity, but I just got the housing for my digital camera and have started making short movie clips. So I plan to cover a wide range of topics, gear, locations and techniques.
My wife and I just spent some time in Los Angeles visiting some friends and we took a day and went to Palos Verdes. We stopped first at the veranda at Malaga Cove, which didn't look great for diving. The water looked very dirty and brown and there seemed to be a bit of the Northwest swell rolling onto the beach and rocks. We talked to a few guys there in the veranda and ended up driving to Vicente Pt. The access is well marked off of Palos Verdes Dr. S. The conditions were a lot better in the cover there and we suited up. I was blown away by the water temperature. It felt great compared to the shock of getting in up north. I planned on spearfishing, but had heard that PV contained mostly perch. We saw a few small calicos but nothing worth shooting, a lot of wrasse and silver baitfish. There was a layer of sediment that made the vis pretty bad starting at about 15' down, so once I got to the bottom, seeing anything around me was mostly impossible. Without fish to shoot, I decided to take some short clips of diving through what little kelp there was. Check it out on youtube.