Visibility was a surprisingly-good 30 feet today (Oct. 29, 2010). I swam a bit too far out to the left at first and found a rubble slope going down to about 40 feet deep. This area was swarming with black, yellowtail, brown, quillback, copper and canary rockfish. I also saw a few medium-sized lingcod. I swam to the top of the slope and saw the wreck in the distance. On my swim back I saw the remains of another small wreck at the bottom of the boulder slope under the Helijet pad. It was the remains of a wooden keel with a small propeller (maybe 2 feet in diameter) sticking out the back. A few feet away there was a jumbled, rusty mass of what used to be the engine. Near my entry-point, there was a large metal tank with some pipes, valves and filters. This metal tank (fuel) was from another wreck. I could see the remains of planking half-buried in the sand nearby.
rockfish over rubble slope
rockfish on rubble slope
lawn chair on rubble slope
lingcod on rubble slope
rockfish over rubble slope
canary rockfish at base of rubble slope
bow panorama
over bow
starboard side of bow
bow
bow
next to bow
bow
bow
next to port side of bow
nudibranch and yellow sponges on hull
nudibranch and yellow sponges on hull
starboard side of hull
black rockfish next to engine
looking at engine
aft end of engine
machinery
lingcod on wreck
in bow
behind prop
behind prop
piling lying on engine
port side of hull
port side of hull
port side of hull
port side of bow
black rockfish under bow
rockfish and lingcod on tire under bow
bow
attempt at panorama of bow and metal tank
prop from small wreck
looking down on prop and shaft from small wreck
jumbled mess of engine from small wreck
large metal tank near shore
corner of large metal tank
camera looking inside metal tank
piping and valves on metal tank
looking at piping and valves
piping and filters
metal tank near shore
corner of metal tank
metal tank
half-buried planking near metal tank
view of shallow metal tank
floating detatched kelp by entry-point
rubble at entry-point
old murder weapon