Avalon Dive Park

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What you'll see (17)

OpaleyeGirella nigricansseen 108× near here

HalfmoonMedialuna californiensisseen 100× near here

Blacksmith ChromisChromis punctipinnisseen 86× near here

Striped Shore CrabPachygrapsus crassipesseen 69× near here

Giant KelpfishHeterostichus rostratusseen 62× near here

Blue-banded GobyLythrypnus dalliseen 60× near here

California Spiny LobsterPanulirus interruptusseen 53× near here

California SheepheadBodianus pulcherseen 47× near here

Señorita WrasseHalichoeres californicusseen 45× near here

Horn SharkHeterodontus francisciseen 40× near here

California Golden GorgonianMuricea californicaseen 38× near here

Tamarisk Sea StarLinckia columbiaeseen 35× near here

Topsmelt SilversideAtherinops affinisseen 34× near here

Kelp SurfperchBrachyistius frenatusseen 32× near here

Wavy TurbanMegastraea undosaseen 30× near here

Zebra-perch Sea ChubKyphosus azureusseen 26× near here

Blackeye GobyRhinogobiops nicholsiiseen 24× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

14,157km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. the only logged site in the area.

When people dive it

Busiest Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep.

From 7,134 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~23h 27m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightLos Angeles (LAX)~21h 18mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~24 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~1h 15mAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatAvalon Dive Park~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Avalon Dive Park on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Los Angeles

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Island: Santa Catalina Island
Country: United States
Marks: 33°20.946'N 118°19.480'W
Position: 33.3491, -118.3247

Where it is

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Nearby

Shaws Cove53km

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.