Captain’s Log May 13, 2011

After a few months of our email being down the Horizon’s Captains logs is back in action.  Spencer, Cary, Aaron, Kyle, Mark, Martin, Mark are all back for what’s shaping up to be a beautiful summer.  We are starting out summer of 2011 with a three-day Powers scuba trip to Tanner bank.  Tanner is located 100 miles off shore 20 miles from Cortes bank.  Although the seas were lumpy we made it out to Tanner for a couple dives before the wind picked up and blew us out.  Tanner is a deeper dive than Cortes with the top of the seamount starting at 65 feet.  There are patches of purple hydrocoral all over the top of the ridge with beautiful walls dropping off from 75-130'.  Schools of little blue rock fish covered the top of the bank.  Strawberry aninamies cover the entire bottom like a carpet.  The visibility was an easy 80 feet at times.  Large schools of bonito circled some of the divers on their safety stop.  Swell sharks were blown up in the caves alongside the Moray eels.  Tanner has so much life on every square inch of the sea mount.  This is truly an amazing place untouched by man and rarely dove by anyone.  After the wind picked up and the swells got bigger it was time to move over to San Clemente Island for our next few dives.

We arrived at the north end of San Clemente Island in time to do a couple night dives at seal rock.  The seas were calming for most everyone since Tanner had gotten so lumpy.  After a great meal served my chef Marko we opened up the gates and in went the divers.  The water was clear and full of baby lobsters crawling over the rocks.  Out in the sand large angle sharks lay in wait for unsuspecting prey to swim by.  HUGE black sea bass milled around scaring the divers under the boat.  It was a nice way to end the first day on the Horizon.  In the morning we will pull anchor and head to Catalina.

Till the sun shines again,

Captain Spencer