Re: Lat. Long Coordinates Used in the Open Ocean
Seeing as that there are two very different systems of GPS Lat. Long. systems in use and most of our observations are in the open ocean and not on land, near any obvious land-marks, we have chosen to to simply use Mission Beach as the nearest location to the wrecks we dive in Wreck Alley, which is approximately 1.8-4 miles West of that beach here in San Diego. The Yukon is exactly 1.8 miles West of Mission Beach, but there are other wrecks within 2-4 miles of it also.
Each wreck does have it's own GPS coordinates, but I am lousy with math and even worse at converting one Lat/Long system to another, so apologies for any inaccuracies this may create, but it's simply too labor intensiveness to go through the entire process for each wreck.
For those wanting more detailed information on the GPS locations of each wreck, California Wreck Divers
is an excellent resource: http://www.cawreckdivers.org
Thanks for understanding,
Mike Bear
