Abalone Season Opening Day Blown Out

The first day of Abalone Season was too rough for even the most experienced divers.

Mendocino Abalone Watch had members warning would be divers of the dangers involved! On look at the ocean should have been enough but some still made the attempt at Van Damme.

Mendocino coast weather was windy with gust of 40 to 45 miles per hour and rough seas at all of the coves and access points to the ocean.