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Weekly Status – Monterey Express – Tim Doreck

September 10, 2008

Saturday: NW winds 5kt becoming N. wind waves 1ft or less. NW swell 2 to 5ft. Patchy fog. Sunday: NW Winds 5kt becoming W. wind waves 1ft or less. NW swell 1 to 4ft. Patchy fog. Already looking better than last week and last week was SUPERB!! Although vis was generally 25′ to maybe 35′ [...]

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Weekly Status – Monterey Express – Tim Doreck

August 24, 2008

Ok… I hit the water yesterday aboard the Beach Hopper (Yes that was me)… joining my very close friends MaryJo Nelson and Brian. In the bay 80ft of water depth and 60ft+ visibility with maybe 1 – 2ft surge… AWESOME! StrawBerry Hill (outside Pt. Pinos) 50ft of vis <2ft of surge… superb!. A decreasing swell [...]

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Weekly Status – Monterey Express – Tim Doreck

August 7, 2008

Saturday NW winds 5 to 15kt… becoming west wind waves 2ft or less. NW swell 2 to 5ft… patchy fog. Sunday West winds 5kt… becoming s. wind waves less than 1ft. NW swell 4 to7 ft… patchy fog. Monterey Bay… holding 30′ in most areas with only a slight layer of about 15′ or even [...]

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Weekly Status – Monterey Express – Tim Doreck

July 20, 2008

Ok… for those of you who know Monterey… your going to say… Yeah… it could happen. IT DID!!!! No LESS than 100′ maybe 110′ of visibility in MONTEREY BAY at Ball Buster (about 2 miles from the harbor). (Reported from Monterey Express divers, Escapade divers and Beach Hopper divers… and my DM Luke Robert). Tim

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Dive Club – Dive Trip Planning Meeting

July 20, 2008

Jayma and Steve are hosting a Dive Club Trip Planning Meeting at their home on July 28 beginning at 6:30pm. Please RSVP if you wish to attend. Jayma Claus & Steve Kuehn 3328 David Drive Napa CA 94558 Phone: 252-8388 RSVP: jayma@napavalleydivers.com Directions: Take First Street and that turns into Brown’s Valley Road. To Stay on [...]

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Napa Valley Divers Club Picnic – Monterey

July 20, 2008

Napa Valley Divers – Club Picnic – Please join us in Monterey (at Breakwater) – Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 11am until 6pm (we’ll be down there much earlier for those that wish to join us for some morning dives). Free for Club Members and $10.00 for non-members (those achieving their open-water certifications that weekend [...]

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Monterey Express – August Night Dives

July 20, 2008

Monterey Express – August Night Dives – Maximum diver load is 15 divers NOT 20 as is the norm for the Monterey Express 2 dive charters. Same $90.00 They are 2 dive charters… tanks provided and are set up on the Reservation system at this time. Saturday, August 9th for a 7pm departure, BOARDING at 6:30 [...]

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Monterey – July 26 & 27

July 16, 2008

Roger will be at Breakwater with an Open Water Class on Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27. If anyone would like to join him in Monterey to do some shore diving… come on down!

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Weekly Status – Monterey Express – Tim Doreck

July 16, 2008

So far… a superb dive season. WOW… last weekend tuned out to be the flattest, smoothest sea surface conditions with the least surface winds we have experienced in about 3 months. The Wednesday forecast prior indicated a somewhat higher swell and wind condition (6′ and 15 kts of wind) than the 2 previous weeks. The [...]

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Weekly Status – Monterey Express – Tim Doreck

June 17, 2008

Although last weekend was not as warm as the models suggested… the MARINE and DIVE related forecast were every bit as expected and more. The unexpectedly small dive population on the dive boats (considering the dive conditions) were NOT disappointed. They enjoyed the smooth flat conditions and visibility 30+ in Monterey and Carmel that had [...]

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