NEWSLETTER OF THE MONTEREY BAY SEA OTTERS DIVE CLUB

The Otter Limits

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Volume 19 Issue #2 February, 2019

February 27th, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Club Meeting, Crazy Horse Restaurant, Monterey

March 8th, Friday, 5:30 p.m.* After- Work Dive, McAbee Beach, Monterey

March 23rd, Saturday, 8:30 a.m.* Club Dive, Butterfly House, Carmel

March 27th, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Club Meeting, Crazy Horse Restaurant, Monterey

April 12th, Friday, 6:30 p.m.* After-Work Dive, San Carlos Beach, Monterey

RED indicates change from original calendar *all times are for – divers should be geared up

President’s Corner

Hello divers!

As we begin the month, I wanted to share a few thoughts with everyone about why diving in Monterey is so very fun - and urge all of you to be sure to attend our club dives next month.

First, if you’ve not already done so, head over to our newly-updated dive site, which can be found here (montereybayseaotters.org). As we work to update our site, we welcome feedback from our members about what we can add, what doesn’t work, and how our website can be a great resource for the diving community in Monterey - and elsewhere.

Second, I wanted to take a moment to talk up our dive sites for next month, McAbee Beach in Monterey and Butterfly House in Carmel. McAbee is famous for its white

The Otter Limits Page 1 sand, graceful kelp, and intricate structure - just the sort of ingredients which make for an amazing night dive. Our day dive, at Butterfly House, is known for its awesome cliffs and deep valleys - it’s the very embodiment of dramatic underwater topography and an amazing dive.

Finally, I wanted to encourage everyone reading this to consider running for an officer position in the club. There is no better way to give back to community than to take a position of leadership in one of the finest dive clubs in Monterey. Nominations are now open and the elections are going to be held on Wednesday, February 27th, during the club meeting.

Mark Holman, President

Great News! Our intrepid Dive Coordinator, Corey, has resurrected the MBSO website! We are still working on rebuilding all the content, but it is up and running now and has information on our upcoming events. Check it out!

Treasurer’s Two Cents

At the January meeting, we welcomed back some friends we hadn’t seen in a while! Ardelle Gilbert, Karl Lindstrom, Peter Mathews, and Keith Rootsaert renewed their memberships. And we welcomed Rick Dante of San Juan Bautista to the club.

After a fascinating demonstration of prepping, cooking, and sharing delicious samples of abalone, Trevor drew names for gift certificates to our local business members. He drew Tara’s name tag, and his own!

Walan Chang, Treasurer

Minute to Minute

A MBSO Board meeting was held on February 20, 2019. In attendance were President – Mark Holman, Treasurer – Walan Chang, Safety Officer – Randy Phares, and Dive Coordinator – Corey Penrose.

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We talked about the upcoming elections and our new website.

Our next meeting will be March 20, at 7:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to dial-in at 563- 999-2090 (365378# access code) and follow along.

2019 Elections

Elections are next week! Every job is open, and we encourage all of you to take a turn on the board! You’ll be learning more about how the club works, and giving back to keep the club going. New blood is the key to new ideas and events, so we would really like to see new faces! Nominations are being accepted until elections take place during the meeting. You can nominate yourself as well. Here are the nominees:

President – Mark Holman Vice President – Tom Hubbard Secretary – Caleb Lawrence Treasurer – Walan Chang Safety Director – Randy Phares Activities Director – Dive Coordinator – Corey Penrose Newsletter Editor – Matt Denecour

Many of the nominees are the same people that held the position last year. They have agreed to continue on, if no one else comes forward, so if you are interested in one of those slots, let us know! The board currently meets on the third Wednesday of each month, but the date can be adjusted once the new board is elected. The club exists to make diving safe and fun for all our members and that can’t happen without your support. Contact any board member if you want to nominate someone! Below are the position descriptions. . President – Presides over general meetings and chairs board meetings. Vice President – Runs things in the President’s absence, and assists where necessary. Secretary – Maintains club documents, keeps minutes of meetings, sends thank-you notes.

The Otter Limits Page 3 Treasurer – Collects dues and pays bills. Manages logo’d club items, tracks membership. Safety Officer – Oversees safety of diving activities, promotes dive safety through articles and talks. Activities Director – Coordinates club activities such as meeting speakers, social events, and field trips. Dive Coordinator – Coordinates club dives, assigns beach marshals, and maintains club gear. Newsletter Editor – Assembles and publishes monthly newsletter. Writes articles as needed.

Walan Chang

The Slime-azing Hagfish

The oceans are filled with all kinds of bizarre creatures, and the hagfish certainly doesn’t disappoint in that regard.

Fossil records show that hagfish have not changed much in 300 million years. They are jaw-less fish (though they look like eels, and are often called slime eels) with no backbone. They are highly specialized, with their two rows of rasp-like teeth, to burrow into dead creatures on the ocean floor. Effectively a large gut with teeth, the hagfish can also absorb nutrients directly through the skin.

What makes the lowly hagfish so fascinating is the copious amounts of slime it produces as a defense strategy. Excreted through its 100 slime glands, the slime, made up of mucous and protein threads, expands 10,000 times in a fraction of a second. Though the initial amount is about a teaspoon, the expanded amount would fill a large bucket, choking the mouth and gills of a predator. Do a YouTube search on hagfish slime, especially involving a Toyota Prius - you will be amazed.

Hagfish is a food delicacy in Japan, but they are generating a lot of interest from scientists trying to find applications for the slime technology. The slime strands are packed like a ball of yarn, but deploy very quickly. Though 100 times thinner than a human hair, they are 10 times stronger than nylon, yet up to 100,000 times softer than

The Otter Limits Page 4 Jell-O. Potential future uses are in airbags, protective gear, food packaging, bungee cords, and other products. It may be the bio-material of the future!

Matt Denecour, Newsletter Editor

February Meeting

We Sea Otters hang out at San Carlos Beach a lot, and just across the grass is a full-service dive shop, Breakwater Scuba. This month we will have Rob Haas, part owner talking about tech diving, , and upcoming dive trips. He will be joined by Anne De Souza who will tell us about some of the recreational and professional programs at the shop.

Breakwater features sales and rentals of some of the top brands, including Hollis, Oceanic, Bare, Atomic, Pinnacle, Halcyon, Zeagle, KISS rebreathers, and others. They have a state-of-the-art system and do full support, training, and rentals of rebreathers, including the Hollis Prism II.

Shannon Vereker, Activities Director

Old neoprene? Is your old or drysuit not doing its job anymore? Bring it to Adam at Bamboo Reef for recycling. You will keep it out of the landfill and your old neoprene will become a nice new yoga mat!

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January Meeting Highlight – Amazing Abalone

President Mark opened the meeting by discussing upcoming elections. The club elects new officers every February, and all positions are open for nominations. Please contact any board member for more details about any position, or to nominate someone, including yourself. Activities Director Shannon recognized and thanked Corey for rebuilding the Sea Otters website and bringing it back online again. Club member Keith Rootsaert gave an update on the local urchin barren situation. He said that they are working to get approval for urchin takes, which would allow divers to collect urchins once the permit is approved.

Trevor Fay, owner of the Monterey Abalone Company, was our guest speaker, and he began his presentation with a fascinating video about the abalone industry in California and the Abalone Company’s operations at Fisherman’s Wharf. In the 1990s there were 14 farms, but because it’s such a challenging business to run, today only 5 operations remain. Raising abalone is very labor intensive. Every week, they harvest five to six tons of kelp, scrub 250-300 cages to remove foreign growth and waste, stuff each cage full of kelp, and return them to the water. The company purchased juveniles from hatcheries at the beginning, but after the 2008 recession, many hatcheries closed, and they had to find another . They invited Moss Landing Marine Labs to start spawning research, and while they lost many abalone during the steep learning curve, they eventually were successful.

Trevor explained that there are about 100 species of abalone worldwide, but most are too small for commercial value. Seven species are good candidates for this area’s

The Otter Limits Page 6 climate, and all are under some form of protection, with white abalone Bing critically endangered. Due to their small numbers, all of them are closed to commercial fishing, and many are closed to recreational fishing as well. Abalone can be identified by their color and number of respiratory pores. They grow a maximum of an inch a year, and the growth rate seems to be unaffected by whether they’re fed fresh or dehydrated kelp. Harvesting dead kelp along the beach as a food source is challenging because of the rapid disintegration of the algae, but red kelp is the hardiest. Restaurants usually purchase the abalone at their most tender stage, about three to four inches wide. However, they can grow much larger.

The main disease impacting abalone survival is withering foot, caused by a bacterium that affects the gut, and the most visible symptom on infected abalone is a noticeably shrunken foot. The main threat to the industry is China, where abalone are grown on ranches. This practice is environmentally unfriendly because clearing an area of all predators before introducing the abalone creates an imbalance in the ecosystem that can have long-term effects on both the ranch acreage as well as surrounding area.

Lucky for those who attended, Trevor brought abalones with him and demonstrated how to prepare the abalone and harvest it. After the demonstration, he lightly battered and cooked several so members were able to taste the freshly prepared abalone. We really enjoyed the unusual experience and hope to host similar presenters in the future!

Walan Chang

Safety First

Diving By The Numbers

The Natty Dresser

Some people look really cool in their dive gear. There are those divers who put a very personal touch on where and how they don the most mundane pieces of gear. How about the diver who wears the mask slanted on top of his head like a French beret, the one who has the sticking up out the back of his head like an Indian feather, or the one who wears the belt like a fanny pack turned to the front? There are also some who seem to think that their masks ruin their hairdos, so they rip them off their faces as soon as they hit the surface.

The Otter Limits Page 7 Have you seen the torero type who wears the BC half open over one shoulder like a cape? Boy oh boy, all those very individual personal touches! I must look truly boring to them.

You see, I believe in wearing everything in its place, exactly as it is designed to be worn and used, so that handling the gear is as easy as it can get. I also believe in standardization. If there is not a very strong reason to do otherwise, I wear everything where everybody else wears it, or is supposed to. That way, I can expect that anybody who should ever have to assist me will find things where s/he expects it. For example, when I lived in Europe I used to wear the snorkel on my right side; we had no rule or recommendation about it then. But when I came to the U.S., I switched the snorkel to the left side, just to be mainstream. (I told you I must look boring.)

Let’s have a look at the basic gear items:

The Weight Belt It should be obvious that the buckle should always be in the front. I certainly would have a problem handling it in the small of my back under the BC. Therefore, I reach for it several times during a dive to adjust it or just to make sure it is where it’s supposed to be. That is especially important at the beginning of the dive, when the belt always becomes loose because of the wetsuit compression when descending. If you forget it, you may end up with the buckle in the back or, even more exciting, wearing the belt around your ankles.

If you want to dive with me, I’ll insist that you wear the belt with “right-hand-release” (that means the buckle is in your left hand when you put the belt on). That is a very important safety aspect: In an emergency, your buddy should not have to search and fumble in order to ditch your belt. That could cost a life.

Another thing: I wear the belt during the dive. Period. When the dive is over, the belt comes off. I can’t and don’t want to compete with the macho guy who walks around with it on all day. I think it’s a good idea to take it off immediately after the dive and often, because it conditions my subconscious mind to consider it ditchable, and it gives me practice ditching it. (This is even more important with integrated weighting systems.)

The Snorkel

Some people feel that the snorkel creates drag or wobbles while they swim underwater. (They must go really fast or crave the tenths of a second earlier that they could arrive at the target.) They advocate to have no snorkel keeper and stick the snorkel under the knife strap or even leave it completely off. Sorry, folks! When you need the snorkel, you need it fast. Grab for it and put it in your mouth within half a second. That works only when it’s right there, on your mask strap.

The Mask

That’s my favorite topic! When I see someone who can’t stand the mask on his/her face, I see a person with whom I don’t want to dive. The mask has to be on the face at all times so that any unexpected wave will never push its way up your nose and down your throat, creating that physiological reflex that could stop your or the psychological effect to throw you into a . In my classes, students put the mask on before entering the water and take it off after the exit. Otherwise, they are not fit to dive. 8

Very rarely do I find it necessary to lift it up for a few seconds to have a sharp look at something, but it snaps right back into place. I definitely think that the “safe” way of wearing it, pulled down around your neck, is kind of stupid, too. Besides being bad for the mask strap, it takes much too long to put it back in place when you need it fast. And with the mask in the way, how can you put the regulator in your mouth, if you need it fast?

So let’s leave the natty dressing to the stupidos! When it comes to dive gear, let’s be boring but safe!

Diving By The Numbers is a classic column by Martin Metzger from the Sea Otters archives.

Scheduled Club Dives

March 8th, Friday, 5:30 p.m. After-Work Dive, McAbee Beach, Monterey

McAbee Beach is located at Cannery Row in Monterey. The entry and exit for the dive is partially protected by the surrounding points and is mostly sand which makes entry and exit easier. The biggest problem is to find a parking spot nearby at Cannery Row. Don’t forget to bring quarters to feed the parking meters at the street ($1.50/hr). It is a shallow dive site, but you only need to do a short surface swim and you are in 20 feet of water and can safely descend for your dive. The recommended dive is to head in a northeastern direction until you are into the kelp at about 35 feet of water, then turn to the left, almost heading in a northwestern direction staying at about 30-35 feet of water. Take your time diving here. Look between and around the rocks. Look into the cracks in the rocks. The rocks are covered with colored invertebrates, nudibranchs, sponges, anemones, and tunicates. You will also find pipes from the old canneries. Don’t forget to look inside, because a lot of times it is somebody’s home nowadays. We will meet at 6:00pm at the dive site, which is where Hoffman Ave. hits Cannery Row.

General Guidelines for After Work & Night Dives: To participate in after work dives or night dives, divers must carry a minimum of two lights, one main light and one marker light (usually attached to the tank valve). The dive must be terminated if a person experiences a malfunction of his/her light(s). That is why carrying three lights is strongly recommended so that dive team can continue the dive if one diver’s light ceases to function. For everyone’s diving pleasure, the club would like to thank all participants for adhering to these recommendations for club dives.

These dives are a lot of fun, come out and join us!

March 23rd, Saturday, 8:30 a.m.* Club Dive, Butterfly House, Carmel

Butterfly House is located at the intersection of Scenic Road and Stewart Way in Carmel by

9 the Sea. There is a large expensive house there with an odd roof that resembles a butterfly perched on the rocks overlooking a small cove. Parking is on the street and then we access the beach by an eroding goat path down to the water. There are no restrooms at this site so if you are diving dry you may want to stop in to the port-a-potty just located along the road in at Carmel River Beach.

We will meet up at the intersection and observe conditions before doing a briefing and gearing up. The shallow cove is not kelped-in this time of year but the goat path to the water is not for the meek so it is one of the more difficult dives we will attempt this year. However, the site is beautiful and one of the nicest shore dives in Carmel. There are very large granite pinnacles and chutes to explore. There are large and abundant fish species here as well as lots of invertebrate life. This is a good dive to bring your camera and, if the visibility looks promising, a wide angle lens.

If this site is not diveable, we will retreat to our backup site, San Carlos Beach. Please post on Facebook if you are attending and if we do change the dive location we will post on Facebook and you can be notified of the change.

April 12th, Friday, 6:30 p.m. After-Work Dive, San Carlos Beach, Monterey

Ok, ok, it's San Carlos Beach. We've all dived there, it's where most of us likely learned to dive and where we go when everywhere else is blown out. We know it like the back of our hands. But this time will be different.

We will be doing a night dive and night dives here are pretty epic. We have come across some interesting and uncommon species like sharks, sailfin sculpins, masked pricklebacks, tree fish, vermillion rockfish and even a California spiny lobster. The breakwater has a wide variation of observed species and during the day these usually hide in the extensive maze of riprap that comprise the man-made structure, but at night these hidden species make their way out to forage.

Make sure to bring two lights and a tank marker light. After the dive, we often recount the nights events at a local pub/restaurant. See you there!

Previous Dives

After Work Dive Friday Feb.8 Lovers Cove Pacific Grove

After keeping a close eye on weather and ocean conditions during the stormy AT&T week, I decided not to cancel the dive as conditions looked promising. I stood there freezing in the wind but everyone else was smarter than me.

Randy Phares

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Valet Diving in Pebble Beach, Saturday February 23

Much has been written here about the nice, warm, free showers at the Beach Club in Pebble Beach, the starting and ending point of our Stillwater Cove dives. Upscale is the theme in Pebble Beach, so why shouldn’t the Sea Otters go first-class? One of the drawbacks to this site is that it can be a long swim to get to the most interesting rock structures, but we had rides out and back in! President Mark brought his small boat to ferry us out to the more interesting stuff. We had six divers (Corey Penrose, Tom Hubbard, Scott McReynolds, Alex Shannon, Matt Denecour, and Kara Hall) and one guest, Ann Melnichuk come out. Ann is from New Mexico but comes here monthly for work and hopes to join some of our dives. Mark selflessly acted as chauffeur.

The dive itself was excellent. Visibility was in the fifty-foot range, and the water was calm. Our first diver group out had an equipment issue with some new gear and though a fix might have been worked out, the diver did not feel comfortable and wisely decided to call the dive. Tom and I surfaced out by the mooring balls where Captain Mark spied us and gave us a ride in, saving us a tedious swim. While that was happening, our other three divers had surfaced and encountered a Cal Fire jet ski on a training exercise.

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In an act of serendipity, those three divers were the perfect subjects for a high-speed extraction to the beach. No one had to swim back!

Matt Denecour

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Membership

The MONTEREY BAY SEA OTTERS

• Promote diving for education and pleasure, under observation of the highest safety standards. • Provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information, education, and training. • Strongly encourage continuing education, environmental conservation, good sportsmanship, and cooperation with all other users of the marine environment. • Provide a network of dive buddies who believe in the ideals of this club. • Please follow link to the club website for more information or email: [email protected]

MBSO Club Dive Guidance

The Monterey Bay Sea Otters dive club welcomes all certified divers to join club dives. For the diving pleasure of all participants, divers shall follow the following recommendations set forth by the club:

A diver may participate as a guest for one dive, after which they are encouraged to officially join the club and pay the yearly dues. If a diver has not participated in a cold water dive during the past 6 months or exhibits irresponsible or unsafe behavior, the Beach Marshal may exclude them from the club dive and refer the diver to a local dive shop for an equipment check and refresher course.

Attendance at the dive briefing is mandatory for participants. All club dives will also be posted on our Facebook page and also a reminder email with more details will be sent out a few days before the dive. Please note that in order to better prepare for these dives, we kindly ask that if you are in fact planning on attending a club dive, let us know prior to the dive. We would like to encourage divers to bring along a mesh bag to club dives, in order to assist in collecting any trash found in the ocean.

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General Guidelines For After Work & Night Dives:

To participate in after work dives or night dives, divers must carry a minimum of two lights: one main light and a back-up light. In addition, divers should attach a colored marker light to their tank valve. Be sure to check your batteries before you arrive.

For everyone’s diving pleasure the club would like to thank all participants for adhering to these recommendations for club dives.

Editor’s Note

The Otter Limits arrives just in time to get you excited for our monthly meeting and remind you of our upcoming dives. In an attempt to provide a steady publication date, all material, and reports, need to be submitted to the editor no later than the 3rd Wednesday of each month for publication. Any SCUBA related articles are welcomed and appreciated and will be included as space allows. Any high-quality underwater pictures are appreciated. Please email to [email protected].

The newsletter has a section for member-led events. If you have an idea, please submit it to a board member for inclusion.

2018 Board of Directors

PRESIDENT Mark Holman [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT James Dempsey [email protected] ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR Shannon Vereker [email protected] DIVE COORDINATORS Corey Penrose [email protected] SECRETARY [email protected] TREASURER Walan Chang [email protected] SAFETY OFFICER Randy Phares [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR Matthew Denecour [email protected]

http://montereybayseaotters.org/ Webmaster – Corey Penrose Facebook

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Monterey Bay Sea Otters 2019 Dive Calendar

JANUARY 11 After-work: San Carlos JULY 12 After-work: MacAbee Beach Beach S M T W Th F S 19 Clean-up Dive: S M T W Th F S 20 Clean-up Dive: San 1 2 3 4 5 San Carlos Beach 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carlos Beach 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 26 Dive: Carmel River 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 27 Dive: Copper Roof Beach (Stewart’s Point) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 31 Club meeting 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 30 Club meeting. Presenter 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 and Board Nominations 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 31

FEBRUARY 8 After-work: Lovers Cove AUGUST 9 After-work: San Carlos 23 Dive: Stillwater Cove 24 North Monastery S M T W Th F S Backup: McAbee Beach S M T W Th F S 28 Club meeting 1 2 27 Club meeting. Presenter 1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and Board Elections 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 24 25 26 27 28 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

MARCH 8 After-work: MacAbee SEPTEMBER 13 After-work: Lovers Cove Beach 21 Coastal Clean-up Day: S M T W Th F S 23 Dive: Butterfly House S M T W Th F S San Carlos Beach 1 2 27 Club Meeting 25 Club meeting 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 28 Dive: Club BBQ and 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Dive: Lovers Cove

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APRIL 12 After-work: San Carlos OCTOBER 11 After-work: MacAbee Beach Beach S M T W Th F S 20 Clean-up Dive: S M T W Th F S 19 Dive: Stillwater Cove 1 2 3 4 5 6 San Carlos Beach 1 2 3 4 5 Backup: San Carlos 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 24 Club meeting 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 26 Pumpkin Carving Contest: 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 27 Dive: North Monastery 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 San Carlos Beach 30 Club meeting 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 27 28 29 30 31

MAY 10 After-work: Wharf II NOVEMBER 8 After-work: Wharf II 25 Dive: Metridium Fields 23 Dive: Butterfly House S M T W Th F S Backup: Breakwater S M T W Th F S Backup: Lovers Cove 1 2 3 4 29 Club meeting 1 2 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

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JUNE 14 After-work: Street DECEMBER TBA MBSO Club Holiday Party 22 Dive: Boat Dive, S M T W Th F S Beachhopper II S M T W Th F S 1 26 Club meeting 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 29 30 31

*Dive Locations are subject to change. Changed Info in RED

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