So excellent.
I just sent my dive buddy over.
A couple of weekends ago we were diving off the Horizon at San Clemente island. We were seeing Soupfin sharks all day.
On one dive, at about 70 feet I saw two
sharks come over my right shoulder and go by into this box canyon. The underwater topography at San Clemente is pretty rugged (see shots below I took on that trip.) I motion to her to come and see these two - as I knew it was a box canyon and they'd have to come out right by us.
We're on scooters, so we buzz over - and I look up and I see two GIANT WSB's and they turn and blast over us, about a foot over our heads at about a million miles per hour, just croaking up a storm.
I've done 1600 or 1700 dives, and I've never seen a WSB on open circuit. I've caught them (off a private boat, never a kayak) and seen free divers bring them up on dive boats and stuff. Never seen one on OC. I was pretty blown away to see two so close. I remember their huge broom tails going right over my head.
I just sent her here to see this vid - I told her "this is what we saw blast over us. When I took us to go see the sharks..."
She watched the vid. Her response:
wow o wow o WOW.
I don't fish and this was exciting.
'yak fisherfolk are bad a$$, no doubt.
Dat sea is so big and yo' boat iz soo small.... and the fish are HUGE.
Torqeedo motor? A little outboard on the back of the kayak? Paddle out and motor home with heavier boat and tired arms? How nice!
Looks addicting.
:-)
~C~
She loved it.
Excellent video. Thanks for posting it.
-Ken
Waking up on San Clemente does not suck.
Some of the topography along the island. Lots of knife-edge rocks and canyons like this.
Zooming Closer
