Monastery Beach Deep Dive w/Drone Footage

[@Kwolfx]

I've only dove Mortuary Beach twice, but in at least one spot there is, not a descending rock wall, but rather a series of step rock ledges; each one about two or three feet horizontal, with the next ledge another foot to three feet vertically down from that one. It takes a while to get down to 130 feet, which isn't good because you use more air than in a strait descent and this increases your nitrogen loading. There was a lot of life hiding in the vertical sections of these rock ledges. I remember seeing a pair of wolf eels in one crevice. The second time I was there, when we got to 130 feet my buddy suddenly handed me his camera and motioned for me to take his picture. The odd look on his face told me he was narc'd but fortunately not too badly. I was probably feeling it a bit myself. We then turned around and made our way back to around 20 feet deep and off gassed at that depth for rest the dive, maybe fifteen minutes. I'm pretty sure we had better underwater visibility on that dive than what I see here. I've read that Carmel Canyon eventually reaches a depth of about 6,000 feet (roughly 1,800 meters), though no scuba diver will go anywhere near that far down. Well, no living diver could do that. It is a very cool dive, but not for the inexperienced and you have to time even small wave sets to get out of the water safely. It got the nickname Mortuary Beach for a reason. It has killed a lot of people, though mostly people playing on the beach who turned their back to the water, got clobbered by a wave, then dragged out and down. It can happen very quickly.

[@breakingh2o311]

I will have to check out the "steps" that you describe. Thanks for watching the video and thanks for the comments.

[@itsmeeaustin5866]

How do you record your videos

[@breakingh2o311]

Hi there, sorry that I didn't respond sooner. I have a gopro hero 5 and a gopro hero 9. I use Adobe premiere pro for editing. Thanks for watching.