Trip Details
- Where: Coastal Deep Hole, Ventura County Line
- Depart from: Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard
- When: Saturday, January 27, 2024
- Time: Board at 6:00 am, depart at 7:00 am with us getting back about 4:00 pm.
- Cost: $225.00 includes 3 dives, hot lunch, water & air fills including FREE nitrox-Limited to 6 divers
- ALL TRIPS are weather dependent
Trip Info
Join Channel Islands Dive Adventures on a trip to the Coastal Deep Hole area off Ventura County Line aboard the DV Triton Dive Boat
The Deep Hole area off Ventura County Line offers awesome boat diving on the deeper outer reefs. This area is further by boat than Anacapa Island and, therefore often overlooked. Join CIDA on this trip for something different!
The Deep Hole/Neptune’s/County Line area is about 20 miles south of Ventura Harbor (15 from Channel Islands Harbor) with the main dive sites ½-1 mile offshore and some deeper sites extending further out. Another name for the Deep Hole area is the “depot” because supposedly it was created using concrete rubble from an old railroad depot.
This area is large and very dramatic and is comprised of large boulders, small rock piles, rock walls, rocky reefs, and pinnacles. There are deeper sites (70′-80′) such as Sea Fans and Sweet Spot, and there is a shallower (40’-60’) spot called “The Ring” with its rocky reef and kelp forest that can rival any spot on the islands on a good day along with an awesome site very close to the ring called “Towers”. The main dive area has depths ranging from 40’-100’ but there are some other unexplored areas out towards 150′ and beyond! Depending on the time of year the visibility can be from 10’-50’.
The Neptune’s area is excellent for photographers with lots of good wide-angle on one of the good visibility days and if you’re into macro you will find plenty of subjects to photograph. You would be surprised how many find this area to be a nudibranch haven. Then you have all the fish (sheepshead and lots of large barred sand bass) swimming around the rocky reefs, kelp (not as much out deeper), scallops, lobsters, and lots of invertebrates, so you can see why this area can be so special and without the diving pressure the islands get. This area is more like what California diving used to be!
This trip is best suited for
Advanced divers and above that have experience in cold water conditions including; current, swell, possible limited visibility and deep water. Most importantly, good buoyancy control is needed and surface signal tubes are always recommended.