Channel Islands Trip - August 23-28, 2008

Diving in the kelp forests around the Channel Islands is a unique experience for divers more accustomed to tropical waters. Similar to tropical waters, the waters are clear with lavish flora and fauna representing every hue imaginable, but unlike tropical diving giant kelp offers another dimension to your dive.  

Those of you who are familiar with diving in Monterey know that diving in kelp is similar to a walk in a lush forest of trees with these plants growing to heights of more than 120 feet. Giant kelp helps support an aquatic ecosystem that provides domicile for over more than 800 species of marine life.

A Channel Islands trip offers you the opportunity to discover a variety of underwater landscapes. Water visibility in these waters can range from 40 to 100 feet and on rare occasions sometimes even up to 150 feet. There are untold opportunities for viewing and photographing a panorama of underwater vistas. Unlike the coral reefs of tropical waters, the reefs in the Channel Islands are comprised of varied types of rock structures. Like coral reefs, the cracks and crevices provide ideal living quarters for many species. The rocks are overlaid with brightly colored bouquets of anemones, starfish, and garlands of hydrocoral, sponges, and sea fans. Moray eels, octopus, abalone, rock scallops, California spiny lobsters, and a host of others inhabit rock fissures and crevices. Divers may chance upon giant black sea bass weighing in at 500 pounds, or a halibut, lingcod, vermilion rockfish, calico bass and more. Migrating gray whales, blue whales, hump back whales, schools of dolphins, seals and sea lions are familiar sightings in the Channel Islands during crossings.

Departure:  10 p.m. Saturday, August 23.
Return:      5 p.m. Wednesday, August 27.

Cost is $695 per person 

[$345 deposit due at time of reservation,  remainder is due 30 days before the trip.]

We will be sailing on the "Vision", the largest of the three dive boats operated by Truth Aquatics (http://www.truthaquatics.com/), leaving from Santa Barbara boat harbor.  If you've never done one of these trips before, you owe it to yourself to come find out why we say these cruises are the best value in dive travel available today.  Included in the price:  4 to 5 dives per day (limited mostly by your own energy level), night dives, meals, unlimited (non-alcoholic) drinks and snacks, warm showers, bunk beds.  

More information about the boat and the trip is available in the dive shop.  Call or come see us soon.  

 

Refund Policy:

$100 of the deposit is non-refundable. 

If a cancellation is requested more than 60 days prior to departure date, the remainder of your deposit will be refunded. 

No refunds within 60 days of the departure date.