Swim crazy - Santa Cruz to Monterey

Bro, I’ll shadow you in my kayak next time if you don’t want to do that alone
Plenny room on my 4.7 Ultra got you in a pinch

Dude, that is pretty nutz!    But you owned it for sure    I'd be happy to follow you as well 

Thanks guys!  I appreciate it.  I usually have someone, just didn't work out that saturday.

In retrospect, had I known I wouldv got took by the ebb, I'd have just rode the tide to Aquatic Park from TI and took an uber.  maybe 2x as far as intended but probably wouldve been faster and maybe easier.  It was ripping that morning.

Anyway dunt sound like anyone's swimming anytime soon. 

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/fishing-boat-sinks-San-Francisco-Hyde-Street-Pier-16514667.php

Hopefully they have the OC spill in check before the holidays bc I'm planning on hitting corona del mar ...

Real bummer all around.

@tedski you ever work an oil spill or rescue an actual man overboard?

@tedski you ever work an oil spill or rescue an actual man overboard?

We did a shit ton of PIW (person in the water) recoveries.  Most were windsurfers who were set too far out and ran out of energy off Candlestick or the small racing sailboats that would capsize or demast off Berkeley Pier.  We also would deal with people in the water after they drove their car off the Dumbarton or off one of the boat ramps in Alameda, etc.  Sadly, though, the majority of recoveries were corpses after someone jumped off the GGB... those were all too common.

Every now and again, we'd come across one of you crazy ass swimmers and wonder what the hell was wrong with you...  . Never approached any to say hi because we figured the last thing you want on a nice swim is diesel exhaust and engine noise, so we'd usually just radio out to notify boaters in the area to heed caution. 

As for oil spills, nothing major thankfully.  What we dealt with was mostly derelict vessels or fuel pier mishaps.  Oil spill response companies would be on scene rather quickly to take over, though, so the most we ever got into was helping set boom and throwing some diapers in the boom to start absorbing.  The biggest fuel spill I was ever involved with was actually self-inflicted.  This was when I was on the 378' cutter and we were doing a refueling at sea operation off the coast of Mexico.  The Merchant Marine ship that was fueling us misconfigured the pump and while we could handle 80 GPM, they pumped over 300 GPM.  JP-5 was blasting out of the gooseneck fuel tank vents and flooding overboard for a solid 2 minutes before we were able to emergency disconnect from the pumping ship.  Took quite a while to clean that one up.

On the safety tip one of the things i was wondering is whethr tanker traffic is limited to time of day? 

There was what looked like a container ship off by Alameda. Under low light i cldnt tell if it was coming or going, n it had me lil concerned. so i just tried to book it outta the lane asap.

As the sun rose i saw six pax running toward the gate but they all gave me big distance. One sailboat came pretty close but no harm.  Im assuming my strobe beacon in the towed buoy was conspicuous enuf.

Nice, you must be doing IM CALI?

Nice, you must be doing IM CALI?

Not this yr tony. Next yr im planning to go big w a few events.
Hope ur good

On the safety tip one of the things i was wondering is whethr tanker traffic is limited to time of day? 

In my experience, tanker/container traffic was 24 hrs.  One of our missions was escorting high-value and high-risk targets to their mooring and that happened at all times of day and night.