Where: Spectre to Santa Cruz Island, Gull Island
Depart from: Ventura Harbor, Ventura
When: Friday, April 12, August 9 or Dec. 6, 2024
Time: Boarding at 5:00 am Friday, departing at 6:00 am, and back to dock at 6:00 pm.
Cost: $245.00 includes 2-3 dives, lunch, and air-Limited to 25 divers
ALL TRIPS are weather-dependent 

If you have any questions, please get in touch with Ken at

info@channelislandsdiveadventures.com or call (805) 469-7288

 Located on the southwest side (backside) of Santa Cruz Island. It is a small rock island a little over 1 mile offshore and is in a Marine Protected Area. Gull Island has excellent diving all around it with depths ranging from 20’-110’ and visibility from 20’-80’. The diving around Gull Island is rocky reefs with kelp, fish, lobsters, sea lions, and lots of invertebrates and small clumps of purple hydrocoral. There are also some outer deep walls close by which make for some exciting diving. The nice thing about Gull Island is with so much to see you can easily spend the whole day there. 

 Advanced divers and above that have experience in cold water conditions including; current, swell, possible limited visibility and deep water. Most importantly, good buoyancy control is needed and surface signal tubes are always recommended. 

The Spectre dive boat and crew do a great job, usually catering to new divers and divers new to the area, going to Anacapa and Santa Cruz Islands. However, with the special CIDA dive trips, this will not be the case. Our trips will all be limited-load for advanced divers and above and will go to more advanced sites around the islands. 

These trips have worked out great for CIDA and the Spectre because everyone loves the extra room on the limited-load trips, and the diving doesn’t get to be the same old thing going to different and more advanced dive sites. Captain Nate and the crew love it as well. Read more about the Spectre HERE.