I had gotten over my phobia of lobster diving off of big boats.

This year, it was slim pickings to find a lobster boat; for whatever reason, the usual charter boats just weren’t going out.

This is the last year that the season will start at midnight and I was scheduled to be on the Bottom Scratcher.

Unfortunately, the boat cancelled on Thursday because Captain Greg broke his back.

Get well soon, Captain Greg!

Apparently, Chipper and some of the other divers who got bumped off the boat went off the beach and did pretty well.

Sorry that there isn’t anything more to this post.

More to come!

The last several months of shore diving have absolutely sucked; at least that’s the reports that I have received.

I’ve woken up in the mornings to see swell map models in the orange and yellow and surfers on the beach webcams.

I guess I need to come up with some money to get on a boat, or have enough patience to wait out what has been one of the worst shore diving seasons that I can remember.

So, you may ask, what the hell have I been doing to occupy my time?

Yeah, I guess this is just to add fluff to my blog as I haven’t posted anything relevant in a month.

I am still training to be a cage fighter, however, the older I get, it seems I’m losing my youthful advantage.

I have also acquired a Telecine – it digitizes regular 8 mm and Super-8 film…

… if you’re under 25, you may not even have a clue as to what that is.

I’ve started to digitize my collection of movies that I have acquired over the years from estate sales, internet purchases and my personal collection.

I have realized, some are just plain F’ing weird…

Drunk guys getting married, circa 1960s.

Others, are ancient skin flicks…

… and others are quite historic…

Sorry for being off the diving topic, but the good and interesting movies I am digitizing and putting on the following YouTube Channel:

The 8 mm film archive

On that note, I am scraping for some boat money.

More diving soon, but yes, I am still alive.