Thanks to everyone who came to our presentation (and booth) this year at the Long Beach SCUBA Show.
How to Utilize Forecasting Tools in Dive Planning
“When to Go Diving – Using Local NOAA & CDIP Forecasting tools for Picking the Best Conditions for the Best Visibility Potential At Popular SCUBA & Freediving Dive Sites in Los Angeles County”
Los Angeles County is a part of the Southern California Bight which offers a rich and diverse marine environment for SCUBA & Freediving. The best diving spots are often in areas with high turbulence potential with different turbulence profiles for each season.
This seminar will discuss how to identify and forecast favorable weather, tide, surf and tidal flow turbulence patterns for popular dive sites in Los Angeles County utilizing current NOAA and CDIP forecasting tools. Concepts can be applied to other diving locales around the world. Recent updates to NOAA and CDIP tools will be covered as well as opportunities for ocean conditions forecasting and acclimation training applying these concepts. Selected recent weather events will be covered to illustrate concepts presented.
June 3 at 3:00pm
June 4 3:00pm
Jess Rosas
Jess Rosas is an active County of Los Angeles SCUBA & Skin/Freedive Instructor who been involved with training and educating SCUBA divers, freedivers and dive leaders in local oceanographic patterns and processes for safe exploration of the coastal and offshore island waters of Los Angeles County for the past 26 years through emphasis and practice of critical watermanship skills, repetitive acclimation and exposure to the differing seasonal turbulence patterns of the Los Angeles County nearshore coastal environment.
He has been an active volunteer with the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks & Recreation Underwater Unit Programs for the past 26 years as lead instructor trainer for the Underwater Instructor Certification Course (UICC), program director/lead instructor for the Rocks, Rips & Reefs (“3Rs”) program, and a lead instructor for the Advanced Diver Program (ADP). Jess is a regular contributor for user feedback for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP).
His work with the Los Angeles County Underwater Unit programs has been profiled in California Diver and NAUI Sources magazines, and he is also an active speaker to various dive clubs and organizations.
Jess has also served as a Board Member of the Los Angeles County Underwater Instructors Association.
Jess has been recognized for his service to the County of Los Angeles Underwater Unit programs as a recipient of the prestigious Conrad Limbaugh Award, and the “Outstanding Instructor” award, given by the Los Angeles County Instructor Association. Jess is also a NAUI instructor & NAUI Instructor Trainer.
