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Night Diving, Solo Diving – So Cal Buddy Diving with the Divevets off of the Island Diver boat

In With: 3000 psi
Out With: 900 psi
Max depth: 110 feet or so
Waves: Sort of Challenging Chop
Visibility: 20 feet
Water Temperature: Getting cold
Total Bottom Time: 20 minutes
Lobsters caught: 2

This is the last lobster boat this year.

It gets really hard to get in the water in January, so I was really gung ho for this trip.

I even purchased a better light that puts out a lot more wattage and white light.

We left dock a little after 7 PM with a full boat, the new Captain and two deck hands.

Apparently, the deckhands were just on board to observe a lobster diving trip.

I was told that the water temperature is warmer than the air.

I was the first one overboard and regardless of how cold the air was, the water was chilly enough for me to yell out “Holy shit, this water is cold!”

I went down the anchor line and planned about 12 minutes on the bottom at this depth.

I hit bottom at 110 feet and started going East.

The boat was right on a set of pipes and I trolled around the sand looking for bugs.

I was 110 feet down in cold water and I have to admit, this was probably the most narced I’ve ever been in my entire life.

It felt like a strong listless head buzz where I wasn’t exactly sure about navigation.

I kept my composure and ran across my first lobster about four minutes in to the dive; I pinned and bagged it.

I started to feel better as the time went on.

I bagged a second legal lobster and started heading up after 12 minutes.

Including the safety stop, it took me about seven minutes to break the surface.

Back on the boat, I double checked the size of my lobsters.

One of the new deck hands commented, “there is no way you could get me down there, that deep in the middle of the night… you guys are crazy.”

Not crazy, just macho.

Dan came back freezing cold after his drysuit sprung a leak; he was done for the night.

Another diver caught a lobster, everyone else got skunked.

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Night Diving, Solo Diving – So Cal Buddy Diving with the Divevets off of the Island Diver boat

In With: 3200 psi
Out With: 1100 psi
Max depth: 90 feet or so
Waves: Mild Chop
Visibility: 20 feet
Water Temperature: Sort of cold
Total Bottom Time: 15 minutes
Lobsters caught: 1

We decided to check out another fairly deep spot.

I out gassed for one hour and twenty minutes before I went back in the water and down the anchor line.

I was told, “Go anywhere but North.”

“Why not North?” I asked.

“Because you’ll get to 300 feet really quick.”

I went East and then South, trolling for bugs.

I didn’t feel as narced as I did on the last dive.

I finally came across one that looked legal and grabbed for it.

The thing was fast and slipped through my lighting fast grab.

I continued trolling and caught one for this dive.

I only had 15 minutes at the bottom and decided to start my ascent after 12 minutes.

I knew if I had trolled for one more minute I would run in to a huge lobster that would have ruined my bottom time.

I surfaced fairly close to the boat.

Dan and his group was the last ones back to the boat.

Dan’s crew came back with their bags stuffed with lobsters; they had apparently come across a heard of them.

The Captain triple checks Dan’s lobsters for size.

I pose with my catch of bugs.

We partied all the way back and in the parking lot in traditional Divevets fashion.