Trip reports by Ken Kollwitz on past CIDA local dive trips. CIDA does a wide variety of local California trips to all the islands, oil rigs, wrecks, coastal areas, Monterey, Big Sur coast and more.
9th Annual Lobster trip dive report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on the Truth on Oct. 12 & 13, 2018, and turned out great! This was CIDA 9th Annual Bug Fest and it turned out great. I have to say I think the bugs won this round with everyone getting some bugs […]
CIDA Bug Fest-Oct. 12 & 13, 2018 Read More »
Monterey Adventure Weekend report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on Sept. 27-Oct. 1, 2018 and was a fabulous trip! It’s been a long time since I have been diving in Monterey and I decided that 2018 was time to change things. I used to help out with the Ventura College NAUI program
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Channel Islands Dive Adventures dive report for the wrecks of the Humble SM1 & Gosford. The trip was outstanding aboard the Truth on Saturday, September 22, 2018. Both wrecks are about a 4-4.5 hour ride up the coast with the SM1 about 3 miles offshore just north of Gaviota State Beach and the Gosford sitting
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Plaskett Creek/Jade Cove trip report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on August 16 & 20, 2018, and was great as always! We had family, friends and made some new friends as well. It doesn’t get much better than that. The weather was very nice with some of the usual fog but nothing
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Big Sur dive report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on the Vision on June 22-24, 2018 and like always it was an adventure! Did a 3 day Big Sur trip this past weekend and I think it was one of the best in the last 3 years and you shall find out
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Santa Barbara Island dive report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on the Truth on April 14 & 15, 2018 and with the weather report we had the trip turned out great. The weather the week before had not been very nice so I figured it would be another Santa Cruz trip. I
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Oil Rig dive report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on the Magician on Mar. 24, 2018, and it turned out good. The weather the week before leading up to the trip wasn’t the best and the report for Saturday was 15-20 knot winds and upwards to 25 in the afternoon along with
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West Catalina Island dive report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on the Magician on Feb. 11, 2018, and it was a GREAT day! Why do you ask? Because I went diving and that is what I love plus I learned some new things and improved on my UW wide-angle photography with the
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