Diving big sur jade. Maybe youll even take home a lump of real jade as a souvenir from jade cove. We will make an announcement about possible dates for a festival in 2021 just as soon as we can. Rough by most diving standards the ocean off of the big sur coast is generally rougher due to the exposure to the open ocean. Truth aquatics occasionally offers big sur liveaboard trips during june each year.
Big sur botryoidal also known as bubble or grape jade botrus means grape in greek is a high quality nephrite jade and is one of the rarest types of jade to find in the big sur area. Tec divers with top notch skills will pray to jump on deep legendary schmeider bank. For divers big sur is generally defined as the stretch of coast between yankee point and jade cove in monterey county. We set up a 6 foot diamond drag saw to cut the large ocean boulders and started polishing out small jade table tops.
The state parks are accessible from coastal highway one. But the big bounties are underwater. Diving in big sur today was about as calm as it gets. Some big sur jade can be found on land.
Big surs unpredictable conditions restrict its treasures to only experienced divers and the long steep trails require some physical conditioning. It is often covered in a serpentine or talc matrix which can be removed to reveal the bubble like structure underneath. There are many good boat dives along the big sur coast with some of them listed below. And a handful of divers most of whom are friends now regularly explore jade cove located about 12 miles from san.
Depths from the boat will be more around 25 30. 4th annual monterey bay jade festival june 11 12 13 2021. Welcome to the big sur jade company. On this day doing some exploratory dives with another jade diver paul jensen in some areas where diving is less common we came across some beautiful stones and one.
10 11 2020 is postponed until further notice due to covid 19 concerns.
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