Trip Details
- Where: Spectre to Santa Cruz Island, Gull Island
- Depart from: Ventura Harbor, Ventura
- When: Friday, April 12, August 9 or December 6, 2024
- Time: Boarding at 5:00 am Friday, departing at 6:00 am, and back to dock at 6:00 pm.
- Cost: $245.00 includes 2-3 dives, lunch and air-Limited to 25 divers
- ALL TRIPS are weather dependent
Trip Info
Join CIDA for a trip to Gull Island off the backside of Santa Cruz Island aboard the Spectre dive boat with a limited load of 25 divers.
Gull Island is a Marine Protected Area, located about 1 mile offshore on the backside of west Santa Cruz Island. Trips to Gull Island are always special because there's so much to see. The underwater terrain is as diverse as the sea life all around the island making Gull Island a must-do trip.
Located on the southwest side (backside) of Santa Cruz Island. It is a small rock island a little over 1 mile offshore and is in a Marine Protected Area. Gull Island has excellent diving all around it with depths ranging from 20’-110’ and visibility from 20’-80’. The diving around Gull Island is rocky reefs with kelp, fish, lobsters, sea lions, and lots of invertebrates and small clumps of purple hydrocoral. There are also some outer deep walls close by which make for some exciting diving. The nice thing about Gull Island is with so much to see you can easily spend the whole day there.
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. The oil rigs visited are unique and interesting and inherently have more hazards and may not necessarily have the best dive conditions. Most importantly, good buoyancy control is needed and surface signal tubes are always recommended.