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torch
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| Quote: | I almost forgot,i did manage this shot at the point...
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That photo is from the same trip? trunking it?? full suit for me
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jeremias
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Not from the same trip, I was only joking about the surf pic. That one is at Puerto about maybe 7 years ago. I had the full suit and booties on last
week too-was freezing out there!
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torch
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jeremias
Not from the same trip, I was only joking about the surf pic. That one is at Puerto about maybe 7 years ago. I had the full suit and booties on last
week too-was freezing out there! [/quote
nice, I was thinking something was up. nice pic. I wish the water is that warm around that area, I have a place a little bit south of there.
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I can't believe how green it is! I have two Erendira trips planned in July and can't wait to get down there again!
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What a difference 50 years makes....
In the early1950s the tanker "Tampico" went aground at Punta Cabras. For a number of years it exact location was unknown by the divers in SoCal. Then
the road was extended and Vincente Castro opend Castro's Fish Camp. The word driffed back to SoCal diving community that there was a huge ship agroud
at San Vincente, as that area was knwn in those days.
Divers began visiting the area- not for the grounded Tampico, for very little remained other than the rusting hull after the salvage crews and the
locals picked it clean. The attraction was for for the great spearfishing the entire area offered; Halibut, Bass, Yellow Tail & White Sea Bass.
By about 1965 or so the Tampico had slowly disintegrated into small bits and peices and had slowly without fanfare disappeared under the water. The
once proud Tampico was no more, only memories remain.
I have heard that there is a "Tampico Cove" development near Punta Cabras, according to my sources the residents of that community, all recent
transplants are unaware of it's recent (if 50 years is recent) interesting history or the origin of the cove's name.--sad!
Now the spear fishing destination has transformed into a surfing destination ..
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by dean miller
What a difference 50 years makes....
In the early1950s the tanker "Tampico" went aground at Punta Cabras. For a number of years it exact location was unknown by the divers in SoCal. Then
the road was extended and Vincente Castro opend Castro's Fish Camp. The word driffed back to SoCal diving community that there was a huge ship agroud
at San Vincente, as that area was knwn in those days.
Divers began visiting the area- not for the grounded Tampico, for very little remained other than the rusting hull after the salvage crews and the
locals picked it clean. The attraction was for for the great spearfishing the entire area offered; Halibut, Bass, Yellow Tail & White Sea Bass.
By about 1965 or so the Tampico had slowly disintegrated into small bits and peices and had slowly without fanfare disappeared under the water. The
once proud Tampico was no more, only memories remain.
I have heard that there is a "Tampico Cove" development near Punta Cabras, according to my sources the residents of that community, all recent
transplants are unaware of it's recent (if 50 years is recent) interesting history or the origin of the cove's name.--sad!
Now the spear fishing destination has transformed into a surfing destination .. |
Love the history... thanks Dean!
Wreck south of Punta Calaveras, The Tampico, July 27, 1957
(Photo from Howard Gulick, Lower California Guidebbok author)
[Edited on 2-1-2016 by David K]
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Thank you David K!
You are one of the very few who has explored and documented Baja before the "road" was completed and the rush of the bajaphiles began.
I actually learned about the Tampico from E R Cross who at that time had just began writing "Tecnifacts" for Skin Diver Magazine.. He actually drove
down to Punt Cabras to investigate the Tampico for possible salvage.
Lots of memories....Thanks,
sdm
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David K
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My pleasure!
The trip from Tijuana to Cabo in 1966 by Jeep is etched in my mind! Baja grabbed ahold of me at a yound age!
Please use my web site links (below) to explore Baja history from your PC!
David
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jeremias
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so there is some spearfishing to be had.... .... great pic!
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Spent quite a bit of time at Cabras in the early eighties but didn't know about the shipwreck...thanks!
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dean miller
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jeremias
so there is some spearfishing to be had........ great pic!
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If you mean freediving spear fishing -- yes!
Omar Wood shot a White Sea Bass in about 10 feet of water under the fins of Joe Lamonica using a JBL gun ( Aka Joe B. Lamonica aka JBL) in 1965.
I have also had considerable sucess in the 1950s to the 1970s.. but that was then ... things change..
sdm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jeremias
so there is some spearfishing to be had........ great pic!
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If you mean freediving spear fishing -- yes!
Omar Wood shot a White Sea Bass in about 10 feet of water under the fins of Joe Lamonica using a JBL gun ( Aka Joe B. Lamonica aka JBL) in 1965.
I have also had considerable sucess in the 1950s to the 1970s.. but that was then ... things change..
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It's awful now don't bother...
Esteban
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jeremias
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I heard something about people contracting ciguatera from the cabrilla or reef fish in the area too. That kind of has put a damper on my spearfishing
aspirations, that and the rabid sea lion that barked at me.
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dean miller
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Ciguatera is primaly contrated via tropical coal eating fish.
It would be very rare in SoCal or NoBaja.
sdm
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I used to catch and occasionally eat some of the Barred surf perch at Cabras. Occasionally the bigger ones would have some cancerous looking shoulder
meat. Kind of neat how they give live birth.
After the mommies would eject them, I'd return them live to the ocean.
 
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