Scuba Diving In Southern California: The Channel Islands
Video Photos Fortunate again, during my fourth week of school, I got to go scuba dive in the Channel Islands for four days with Annie Crawley ! We were to live on a boat with about 15 other underwater photographers with two or more dives a day exploring the Channel Islands. Since this was my first experience with "real" cold water, I was snuggled up in two 7-millimeter wet suites. Down under, what I visualized was like computer animation; too good to be true. We saw giant Sea Bass bigger than me, (slightly intimidating) colorfully saturated Garibaldyi playful sea lions, lobster, and if you can name it, we saw it. Not only was this my coldest dive, (it was well worth it by the way) but is was undoubtedly the most challenging. With the fierce surge and current more powerful than football line-backers, I was thrown back and forth like a rag doll. However, I tried my best and captured some footage that I was more than proud of.