These sites are the gap between shore diving and boat diving that a dive kayak is ideally suited to.
Dive kayaks are the ultimate one-man dive boats.
Although paddled kayak style, you don't actually sit inside. There is a person shaped indentation in the top that you nestle in. Your weight belt rests between your knees and there is a locker at the front for all the other loose bits. I had already been shore diving the giant kelp forests of Catalina Island's Avalon dive park for a few days. Excellent quality kelp forest and lots of fish, but I was itching to have a look at the wreck of the Valiant which lies just outside the boundary of the park, about 150 metres from shore and about twice that distance from the nearest convenient entry point.