With Psycho Bitch gone it is time to start anew, socialize and find my next ex.

I bought a ticket to the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber Dinner at the Divevets table – the cost was $90, and included dinner, raffle tickets and a free tour of the Aquarium of the Pacific.

All proceeds, over the cost of the meal went to the general operating fund for the Chamber; even though they charged $6.50 for a can of Heineken, the Chamber didn’t get any of that.

I’ve heard this has been a fun night in previous years – lots of women and lots of beer.

This year, the Divevets couldn’t fill their table, so half the people there were strangers.

Mike C. was working on Donna The Hot Biker Chick, even though she seemed thoroughly annoyed at first.

The entire main floor of the Aquarium Of The Pacific was made into a gigantic dinning area.

This is what I was served – I asked, “Is this an appetizer?”

The waiter said, “No this is the main course.”

This really hot chick from Arizona, Jill, sat at our table…

So now, cock blocker Mike has two chicks now swarming all over him.

And… I’m stuck sitting next to Dan who’s getting more drunk and telling me that he’s so horny that he would even do me.

So far for me, the night was sucking hard – if it wasn’t a charity event, I probably would have just left.

Sans me, here is our table.

One couple, Mike and Yoko, who we don’t know, seemed to be increasingly annoyed at our growing beeramid of Heineken cans – the Aquarium went cheap and decided not to serve Budweiser!

They showed an old episode of Emergency! that featured a diving accident and the use of the hyperbaric chamber.

It was quickly pointed out that they flew to the chamber on Catalina for the outside shots, but the interior scenes were done on a sound stage in Hollywood.

The announcer explained that the Catalina Chamber only receives 50% of it’s funding from LA County and the rest comes from charity events such as this dinner – OK, so I felt a little warm and fuzzy – probably from the beer – even though Mike was getting all the chicks and Dan was hitting on me.

The Aquarium was open for tour – it was really nice not to have thousands of screaming kids around, as is usually the case.

The world famous Bill H. won a raffle prize – I believe it was a BC system worth $900.

Our beeramid is complete – only because the bar ran out of cans.

I got burned not only with the women, but with the raffle prizes as well.

Oh well, at least the Chamber is there if I ever need it – I think next year I’ll just send them $90 and skip the dinner.

I’m still hiding out up in Santa Monica, but was dragged in to work at 2:30 AM; when I left at 9 AM I decided to stop by Old Marineland to make a cameo appearance.

Reports from yesterday said that conditions sucked, so I wasn’t really expecting many, if any, divers.

Bringing a snack tray and a 12 pack of the King Of Beers, I was quite surprised to see at least six familiar divers’ vehicles.

Apparently, the County of Los Angeles made Terranea Resort officially “close” the trail down to the Cove (i.e. “The Sandy Beach”) due to storm damage and safety reasons, but the obstacles are easily bypassed and nobody seems to care if you’re on the trail.

Conditions on the surface looked like the diving sucked.

Most of the regular divers had made an exit, but the group was waiting for the remaining divers coming in from 120 reef.

The shore was getting hit occasionally with some pretty nasty looking waves, so I grabbed my camera and filmed their exits.

As Military Bob told me later, “When I see PSD on shore with his camera, I take my time getting out; I don’t want to wind-up on YouTube.”

Everybody made a boring exit, thank God.

However, a diver did drop his fin; if you find it, call the number written on it and offer to sell it back to him.

The shoreline has been rearranged by the recent storms – there is quite a ridge between the rocks and the sand.

Nothing like climbing a sand dune in SCUBA gear!

Dennis G. and Donna The Hot Biker Chick.

Well, the consensus report is, “the diving sucked,” but nobody expressed any regret getting wet.

Not New Chris did his due diligence to capture the dive on video:

To view this video on YouTube, click here.

Traditional debriefing followed.

The Easter Egg dive is coming up on April 16th; I’m hoping to get back in the water by then as I am still congested from the cold that never goes away.