I came back a week after my last dive here to try and look for the deep wall again (Oct. 1, 2021). This time I entered off the rocky point and followed my compass out from shore to try and reach the big rocky area shown on the sidescan image. I had scratched up my wide-angle camera's dome port on the rocks so many of the pictures have blurry streaks in them. Visibility was 20-30' in the shallows and over 50' deeper down.
The slope here was made up of flat, broken rocks. It went down to about 80' deep and then there was sand.
I swam out down the sandy slope. I finally saw some rocky areas about 130' deep. I think these are the rocks I saw from a distance last time. I was accumulating nitrogen fast so I didn't spend much time here. My maximum depth was 138'. There weren't any big walls, but just low, rocky reefs stepping down. I saw a couple of tiny cloud sponges and some other kind of branching sponge.
I gradually swam shallower up the slope while continuing to swim away from the point. I leveled off at around 80' deep.
The farther I swam, the steeper the rocky slope seemed to get. Eventually, it was what I would consider to be a wall. I assume this area is the location of the deep wall that goes down past 200' deep. My dive computer was scolding me so I didn't want to go any farther or deeper. I swam up to the top of the wall around 60' deep. There was a school of yellowtail rockfish here.
At the top of the wall there was a big, flat solid-rock area about 30-40' deep. I swam back across it towards shore.
A tree trunk rose from the bottom to the surface. Before the dive, I could see the root ball of this tree floating on the surface from the shore.
