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Preparation For Night Lobster Diving Shores Of Los Angeles Preparation For Night Lobster Diving Shores Of Los Angeles
hcdiveteambrian - 9/23/2014 6:16 PM
First of all are we thinking “Bugs, Lobsters?” Many will say YES!! heading for the pot! Without a second thought, gear is always ready right? It’s the timing of the moment that comes around at precisely 12:01AM Saturday Morning after working all day Friday a piece of gear breaks or doesn’t work. Personal gear planning takes on now a different nature of what’s at stake, cost of lobster license, and the chance to get an opening night bug. Roarrrrrrrrr! Extra Rope if t...
California Diver Magazine publishes Hardcore Dive Team!
hcdiveteambrian - 6/18/2014 11:39 PM
With our survey dives going on in Santa Monica Bay for Californiashipstoreefs.org it has put us on a new, very promising site in Redondo Beach area, near the Palawan wreck. A big Thanks goes to California’s #1 dive publication CaliforniaDiver.com for running the story! The ducks are getting lined up, acquired vessels, designated sink site has revealed all around A’s in analysis studies, to effect the beginnings of multiple ongoing artificial reef development. It’d be a good time to contact Calif...
California Diver Magazine Runs Hardcore Friday the 13th of June with a full moon
hcdiveteambrian - 6/14/2014 4:49 AM
californiadiver.com/deep-in-artificial-reefing-hardco...outh-bay-california/ For the second time California Diver Magazine finds interest in the work of Hardcore’s latest projects in Redondo Beach aka South Bay. And for great reasons this time around. to hear of our reef site work and to feed some numbers, some divers to California Ships to Reefs to help with the drive that it takes to bring new artificial reefs in California’s Pacific Shoreline. The amount of red tape to deal with i...
California Ships to Reefs prepares Redondo Beach CA for New Reefs with Hardcore Dive Team California Ships to Reefs prepares Redondo Beach CA for New Reefs with Hardcore Dive Team
hcdiveteambrian - 5/18/2014 9:00 PM
California Ships to Reefs (CSTR) is in progress as always, to enhance recreational diving depths with the creation of new reefs. With new Hardcore Dive Team request coming in the last half of 2013 to start work in Redondo Beach area, we went right to work, doing what we do! Scuba Diving Los Angeles just got more intense. passin through Anyone interested in supporting CSTR while having an up to date site specific info connection is always recommended. Log in by creating an account there. Inquire ...
Customized Scuba adds Hardcore to the extreme 3-27,28-2013 Oil Rig Solo Dives Customized Scuba adds Hardcore to the extreme 3-27,28-2013 Oil Rig Solo Dives
hcdiveteambrian - 3/30/2013 9:17 PM
With safety in mind constantly, Hardcore Dive Team seeks new windows to open and develop a growing experience level that only a very few will attempt. Captain Adam C. James of Customized Scuba operating “The Goby,” posted a facebook invite “Oil Rig Dives, Wednesday and Thursday!” In now 14 years of extreme shore, boat and island dives, the Oil Rigs here in Southern California are completely a new experience nice for this Hardcore Diver. I mentioned that to AJ, and his sol...
Where the elite and few make up Hardcore Dive Team! DiveBuddy.com & HardcoreDiveTeam.com Where the elite and few make up Hardcore Dive Team! DiveBuddy.com & HardcoreDiveTeam.com
hcdiveteambrian - 2/24/2013 5:33 AM
Where the elite and few make up what Hardcore Dive Team is! DiveBuddy.com & HardcoreDiveTeam.com put together the few, the rad, and the only one, Explorers Beyond the Surface! Hardcore....
February 18,2013 Hardcore & Customized Scuba Hits the SS Avalon on DiverCity!
hcdiveteambrian - 2/21/2013 3:07 AM
Going out to check out SS Avalon for reef health and fish population counts gets video surprise of over 2000 fish in one still school. 70ft and big surge in cold water scores! Potential “new wrecks” in Santa Monica Bay by California Ships to Reefs will be wild!...
Discovered Treasure
hcdiveteambrian - 2/01/2013 6:31 AM
Hope Wilkos, National Water Sports Writer for examiner.com was discovered by us on DiveBuddy. Her articles seem to put you in the subject as if you were there. With a hit “add to her buddy list” and we were added. We had information we wanted to get out, and requested “can you help with this?” Within the day, an article was produced to outline our goal and sent to the world. The Article! is a story beyond well writen by a diver/writer who we were lucky to find. It took a ”buddy request” and a ca...
January 26 2013 California Ships to Reefs survey dives with HardcoreDiveTeam and Customized Scuba
hcdiveteambrian - 2/01/2013 2:36 AM
The clean sweet bottom at 103′ while getting detailed survey data. Customized Scuba featuring “The Goby Dive Boat” takes 4 researchers to work on a rainy Sunday morning. Results: Positively the best there is....
Hardcore Dive Team with Customized Scuba for California Ships to Reefs Wreck Research Dives 1-26-201 Hardcore Dive Team with Customized Scuba for California Ships to Reefs Wreck Research Dives 1-26-201
hcdiveteambrian - 1/28/2013 4:23 AM
Constantly Hardcore as Explorers beyond the surface, takes us to new levels of research and devlopment with brand new Shipwrecks coming to Los Angeles California. Adding to the allure and beauty of our known natural and decaying shipwrecks that are scattered throughout places like the world renowned “Santa Monica Bay” Hardcore Dive Team and Customized Scuba volunteers its services to California Ships to Reef as research divers to help bring more wreck dives at the depths of the barre...
Early 2013 Dives catches the worlds largest creature, and good times 1-19-2013 Redondo Beach, Califo Early 2013 Dives catches the worlds largest creature, and good times 1-19-2013 Redondo Beach, Califo
hcdiveteambrian - 1/22/2013 8:13 PM
Heading out to some Palos Verdes giant kelp dives on a Saturday morning, DiverCity’s path crosses blue whales feeding on krill in the mix of thousands of wild dolphin pods Crazy dolphins and the local sea lion stars wanting to get in some stage time. The dives ended up being near the Avalon in pretty cool waters of 54 degrees on the surface with not any noticable thermocline down to 60′ deep. Solitary pairs of whales were within whale lengths of us at the out edges of the kelp. Hopin...
Bethlahammer nails Palos Verdes 12-7-2012 Bethlahammer nails Palos Verdes 12-7-2012
hcdiveteambrian - 12/12/2012 11:44 PM
The morning of December 7th provided Bethlahammer with some of the best diving experiences to date. Having thought about the dive most of the night, waking up with a smile was an easy task. I was ready to drive to King Harbor in 20 minutes, normally getting ready would take longer however excitement lay ahead. With Brian driving I was able to gaze into the fog and traffic and think about the people I would be diving with today. I know that Capitan “Jim” thinks I am “Out of Cont...
California Ships to Reefs
hcdiveteambrian - 12/01/2012 11:30 PM
With our ongoing efforts to help California Ships to Reefs in their mission to provide a thriving California Diving/Fishing environment in areas that are known to seriously lack it, such as large bays-Santa Monica Bay for one. We’re asking your help, we know your time is valuable, it only takes a moment to sign their ipetition. Petition by iPetitions If you would like to join our efforts in the survey/dive data collection dives contact us either here or on facebook we can direct you to the best ...
Anacapa Arch Dives with CIDA
hcdiveteambrian - 11/27/2012 10:33 PM
Harvey the harbor seal came on by to check out the local new fins. Aboard the Raptor Dive Boat in 2011. Channel Islands Dive Adventures...
Happy Hardcore Thanksgiving 2012 Happy Hardcore Thanksgiving 2012
hcdiveteambrian - 11/20/2012 2:35 AM
From all of us at Hardcore Dive Team, we wish only the best of diving Fall holidays to everyone. Some of us at hardcore today are in the Phillipines diving like way out of control, good times, some of us are gearing up for defrosting the lobster tail dishes. Last year 2011, a few days after T-day a monster black sea bass (AKA giant sea bass) made it’s thanksgiving very plain by giving us this video near the edges of Palos Verdes “Rocky Point” or Dominator Wreck area!!! Linkback to Original Hardc...
The Goby Goes to Anacapa Pelican Reserve Hardcore 11-2,3-2012 The Goby Goes to Anacapa Pelican Reserve Hardcore 11-2,3-2012
hcdiveteambrian - 11/03/2012 7:24 PM
A Hardcore intention generated only days ago with one thing in mind…to get the best options possible for the short time that the “Brown Pelican Reserve Map” is open to diving. And like always, we don’t take seconds, we find and take the “Best!” The Goby Dive Boat is where that choice landed. And for the obvious reasons…We were going to a broad dive area with a Reckoning. One of Hardcore made the call and booked The Goby’s Captain Friday and Saturday. NOAA Buoy Data Center was calling for high wi...
“Three Way Out of Site Dives” Palos Verdes DiverCity 10-21-2012 “Three Way Out of Site Dives” Palos Verdes DiverCity 10-21-2012
hcdiveteambrian - 10/22/2012 7:45 PM
With an early Sunday morning start in heavily dark clouded skies HardcoreDiveTeam DiverCity plows through the slick calm water heading to the farthest reaches of Palos Verdes western edges. the best there is Dive #1 secret spot and 5 divers meet with extreme good conditions, viz in the 40s and 50s, temps still raging near 70 degrees, giant kelp forest still thriving! An abundance of fish in the way of calico/sand bass, sheephead was darting in and out of the clear water, and legal lobsters waiti...
Lobster Dives 10-9-2012 Dominator Area DiverCity Lobster Dives 10-9-2012 Dominator Area DiverCity
hcdiveteambrian - 10/14/2012 6:05 PM
On choppy evening seas blown by small craft advisory winds DiverCity makes way out to Dominator area with a 6 pack-5 diving. Princeton Tec is our Dive Lights of choice “always!”Ready for serious yearly work! Princeton Tec Rays With a single dive by most, 3, 2, and 1 was the bag sizes. 2 nice tails One hardcore diver goes in a second dive, to get a total of 3 nice sized spiny lobster. Got dinner for Vicky Bugs were found in the 25 to 30 ft depths. Many shorts walking all over and rece...
7 Days at Catalina Island Isthmus Cove Diving the Front Side! October 1-7, 2012 7 Days at Catalina Island Isthmus Cove Diving the Front Side! October 1-7, 2012
hcdiveteambrian - 10/09/2012 8:25 PM
Another research plan to fill a 3 day lobster quota of 21 each didn’t work out quite like it was hoped for. A total of 3 bugs were taken by all. A monster calico bass and his relatives swam into the bucket. As usual the weather was outragously sweet, 80′s air temp with gentle breezes, we found between 50-100 feet visibility and 70 degree water temps down to 70 feet deep. Day 1 the boat heading to Isthmus Cove. Gettin ready for work! Day 2 DiverCity makes her way East past the Crane P...
HardcoreDiveTeam Scores
hcdiveteambrian - 10/17/2011 12:17 AM
HardcoreDiveTeam nets a week of Catalina Island exploration front side!! Temperate water resident comes all the way from Canada to see what the heck HCDT is boasting about, all this sweet diving. And scores big time! Wrecks, reef and marinelife filled the week with wide eyed views! All while one part of HCDT goes to Monterey Bay to do research on DivetheCoast logistic dives!! Bad ass. For info on Los Angeles County’s soon to be test dives email brian@divethecoast.com!...