The Great Escape
Southern California Live-Aboard Scuba Dive Boat

1-866-348-3262

Click here for a larger image of the Great Escape

email Captain Tim Burke

DiveBoat.com




























Key phrases to find us: Southern California Dive Boat, Scuba Dive Southern California, Scuba Dive California, Southern California Scuba Diving, California Diving Charters.
Dive sites (not all inclusive): Channel Islands, Santa Catalina Island, San Clemente Island, San Nicolas Island, Santa Barbara Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Rosa Island, Santa Cruz Island, Anacapa Island, Farnsworth Bank, Tanner Bank, Cortes Bank, Osborne Bank, Matterhorn, Begg Rock, Wilson Rock, Bee Rock, Richardson's Rock, Talcott Shoals, Palos Verdes.
Shipwrecks or wreck dives (not all inclusive): The Olympic, The Star of Scotland, The Avalon, The USS Butler, The USS Palawan, The USS Peacock, The Valient.
Environments (not all inclusive): lush kelp forests, rock reefs, caves, pinnacles, urchin barrens, sand shoals, ship wrecks, surf zones.
Water Temperature Range: 49F-74F (9C-23C) depends on location, depth, and time of year
Fish (not all inclusive): garibaldi, blacksmith, señoritia, kelp fish, sole, halibut, turbot, sanddab, blackeye goby, bluebanded goby, zebra goby, sarcastic fringehead, ronquil, wolf-eel, moray eel, rock wrasse, sheephead, barracuda, surfperch, halfmoon, whitefish, opaleye, zebraperch, croaker, white sea bass, lizardfish, midshipman, sargo, salema, jack mackeral, calico or kelp bass, spotted or sand bass, rock bass, giant black sea bass, sculpin, cabezon, lingcod, greenling, treefish, rockfish, smelt, anchovie, sardine, yellowtail, bointa, mackeral, mola, bluefin tuna, needlefish, queenfish, blenny.
Sharks and Rays (not all inclusive): bat ray, round sting ray, shovel nose guitar fish, California thornback, Pacific electric or torpedo ray, angel shark, leopard shark, blue shark, swell shark, horn shark, angel shark, soupfin shark, dogfish, smoothhound shark.
Crabs (not all inclusive): kelp crab, rock crab, decorator crab, sheep or spider crab, dungeness crab, sand crab, shore crab, hermit crab, warrior crab, helmet crab.
Invertebrates (not all inclusive): tunicate, sea star, brittle star, sunburst/sunflower star, sand star, spiny star, sand dollar, sea urchin, pencil urchin, sea cucumber, feather star, octopus, squid, clam, rock scallop, cowrey, triton, whelk, sponge, jellyfish, hydrocoral, hydroid, green abalone, pink abalone, red abalone, white abalone, black abalone, flat abalone, limpet, bryozoan, turban snail, kelp snail, moon snail, top snail, sand snail, muscle, tube worm, feather duster worm, gorgonian, sea anonome, nudibranch, navanax, sea slug, cleaner shrimp, shrimp, mantis shrimp, spiny lobster.
Sea Mammals - Pinnipeds (not all inclusive): harbor seal, sea lion, dolphin, common dolphin, gray whale, blue whale, humpback whale, killer whale, pilot whale, elephant seal, Dall's porpise, beaked whale.
Plants (not all inclusive): agarweed, algee, eel grass, cord grass, salt grass, bull kelp, elkhorn kelp, featherboa kelp, giant kelp, spongeweed, sea palm, laminaria, rockweed.
Boat Specifications: length: 80', width: 25', draft: 6'3", gross displacment: 94 tons, net displacment: 64 tons, Coast Guard certified for 49 passengers + 6 crew.
Owner: Captain Tim Burke
Berth: Berth 55, 555 Pico Av, Long Beach , Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.
Snail Mail Address: Great Escape Charters, P.O. Box 14773, Long Beach, CA 90853
Phone Number: 1-866-348-3262 (1-866-DIVEBOAT)
E-Mail: CaptainTim@DiveBoat.com

©1997-2007 Great Escape Charters, all rights reserved
Underwater photographs ©1997 Mike Meagher: wolfeel@telcomplus.net
Site Maintained by Scuba Divers Network

 DiveBoat.com