Newport Beach Shipwreck? Or structure fishing?

[ful-rac]

You'll find that most if not all those numbers are off. Just like the numbers the dfg gives out for the locations of the artificial reefs...Off. A lot of those numbers were converted over from loran, so there is a lot of error there.

[William Novotny]

Originally Posted by ful-rac

You'll find that most if not all those numbers are off. Just like the numbers the dfg gives out for the locations of the artificial reefs...Off. A lot of those numbers were converted over from loran, so there is a lot of error there.

What he said. In fact if you look at allot of the old dive board coordinates for reefs in our area they take you out to the desert. For the longest I thought there was some divinci code conspiracy going on

[BillzBaitz]

go buy a noaa map.. those are true number. i should know my wife works for the software company that makes the maps.

[ceruleandrms]

Originally Posted by William Novotny

What he said. In fact if you look at allot of the old dive board coordinates for reefs in our area they take you out to the desert. For the longest I thought there was some divinci code conspiracy going on

True story here though I think it was my fault. I entered some coordinates I got off the web to my gps then transferred them to google earth to confirm I was in the right area in Malibu. My coordinates took me to a cemetery in the Philippines.

[kauaiboy04]

that kmz file does not show the wrecks out of mission bay, weird.

[Silbaugh4liberty]

Originally Posted by ceruleandrms

True story here though I think it was my fault. I entered some coordinates I got off the web to my gps then transferred them to google earth to confirm I was in the right area in Malibu. My coordinates took me to a cemetery in the Philippines.

Longitude needs a minus in front of the number. Also, Google maps reads it in decimal points, so if you're inputting the degrees, minutes and seconds, it's not going to work, you have to convert to decimal. Download gps converter for free on the Google store.

[alanw]

Originally Posted by Silbaugh4liberty

Longitude needs a minus in front of the number. Also, Google maps reads it in decimal points, so if you're inputting the degrees, minutes and seconds, it's not going to work, you have to convert to decimal. Download gps converter for free on the Google store.

Actually Google maps does read in degrees as well as decimal. It just needs to be in the correct format. For example take

33deg 27'40'N

117deg 45'50'W

and input it into Google maps as

33 27'40"N, 117 45'50"W and it works. You can use the degree ° sign instead of a space.

[Silbaugh4liberty]

Originally Posted by alanw

Actually Google maps does read in degrees as well as decimal. It just needs to be in the correct format. For example take

and input it into Google maps as

Sweet, thanks for the info

[ceruleandrms]

Originally Posted by Silbaugh4liberty

Longitude needs a minus in front of the number. Also, Google maps reads it in decimal points, so if you're inputting the degrees, minutes and seconds, it's not going to work, you have to convert to decimal. Download gps converter for free on the Google store.

Ok cool, thank you

[bus kid]

http://www.navionics.com/en/webapp

http://southcoastdivers.com/php/ConvertGPStoDecimal.php

http://www.itouchmap.com/latlong.html

google earth is helpful too turn on the dive sites
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