Trip Details
- Where: Wreck of the Spirit of America and Santa Cruz Island
- Depart from: Ventura Harbor, Ventura
- When: Friday, June 14, 2024
- Time: Boarding at 6:00 am Friday, departing at 7:00 am, and back to dock at 4:00 pm.
- Cost: $220.00 includes 3 dives, lunch, and air-Limited to 25 divers
- ALL TRIPS are weather dependent
Trip Info
Join CIDA for a trip to the wreck of the Spirit of America and Santa Cruz Island aboard the Spectre dive boat with a limited load of 25 divers.
The Spirit of America is an excellent dive with her sitting upright on a sandy bottom at about 65’deep outside the Scorpion Anchorage, Santa Cruz Island. This area is an MPA so no hunting is allowed, only photographs.
The Spirit of America (Aka: Peacock), if that is what her real name was had a lot of mystery around her. It was known that the wreck was a WWII Minesweeper that sunk in the ’70s. The Spirit of America sits upright on a sandy bottom at about 65’deep outside the Scorpion Anchorage, Santa Cruz Island. Visibility here can be 15’-40’. With the hull and its structure to explore the Spirit of America is a very good dive. It is in a protected area and there are lots of fish and the biggest Spanish Shawls on her. Afterward, we will finish our dive day at some other great sites around Santa Cruz Island.
To read and learn much more about the wreck, please visit our info about the Spirit of America here.
This trip is best suited for
Experienced Advanced Deep divers and above that have experience in cold water conditions including possible current, swell limited visibility, and deep water. The wrecks, man-made structures, and deeper reefs 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.