{"id":1059,"date":"2008-02-10T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2008-02-20T19:03:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T02:03:28","slug":"logged-dive-276-divng-with-evil-jeff-off-of-long-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #276 – Diving With Evil Jeff Off Of Long Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Point, CA
\n(aka The Old Marineland)<\/p>\n

Dove With Evil Jeff<\/p>\n

In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 400 psi
\nMax depth: 60 feet
\nWaves: Minor Chop
\nVisibility: 10 feet
\nWater Temperature: Chilly
\nTotal Bottom Time: 65 minutes<\/p>\n

The small group of regular divers met at 8 AM; Reverend Al, Dennis G, Evil Jeff and a few others.<\/p>\n

The point looked good, so it was decided to go off the Point and exit the cove.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The walk down is not for the unmacho.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

I told Reverend Al that I was going to follow the group; Al later paired me with Evil Jeff.<\/p>\n

Al dropped, but skillfully recovered one of his fins in the surf zone.<\/p>\n

The seven of us made it through the surf zone, swam out and met around a lobster trap buoy.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

\"We<\/p>\n

I told Evil Jeff to lead and I’ll follow; we descended…<\/p>\n

\"We<\/p>\n

… and landed right on the statute that we were going to look for.<\/p>\n

We toured around the various points of interest, looking in lobster holes and admiring the scenery.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

We came across an abandoned and rotting lobster trap.<\/p>\n

\"Lobsters<\/p>\n

There were plenty of lobsters around and all hid safely out of reach.<\/p>\n

I’m glad they’re shallower now.<\/p>\n

Vis was 10 feet, but compared to my other dives lately, I wasn’t complaining.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\"Evil<\/p>\n

When I was at 1500 psi, we started swimming towards the cove.<\/p>\n

When I was down to 500 psi, Evil Jeff handed me his auxiliary second stage; he had 1500 psi left.<\/p>\n

I thought to myself I must be really crappy on air consumption or Evil Jeff doesn’t breath; I later found out that his tank had 40 more cubic feet of air than my tank.<\/p>\n

We ran across Reverend Al and Dennis peaking into lobster holes.<\/p>\n

A heavy chain lies on the ocean floor…<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Jeff gave the signal to ascend; I put my reg back in my mouth and slowly swam to the surface.<\/p>\n

We were about 50 yards from the cove; Jeff thought we were further.<\/p>\n

As we were surface swimming to the cove, a small boat slowly approached us within yelling distance.<\/p>\n

The guys yelled, “…our lobster traps… the DFG will be meeting you guys to see if you’ve been poaching our traps.”<\/p>\n

Evil Jeff yelled back, “OK, that’s great.”<\/p>\n

We exited the cove without incident.<\/p>\n

Dive Bum Don said that the guys in the boat were looking at us a ways away through binoculars and saw us descend near their lobster traps.<\/p>\n

We weren’t poaching, just using their buoy as a meeting spot.<\/p>\n

However, I do see their point, and these guys have been known to be mean to divers.<\/p>\n

Evil Jeff said that Bill surfaced above a lobster trap to a shotgun in his face.<\/p>\n

I’ve been told by a lobster trapper that he used to carry bricks in the boat to drop on bubbles that were around his trap.<\/p>\n

We all walked back up as a group and debriefed.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

A UFO disguised as an Ultralight passed overhead – how cool!<\/p>\n

\"Debriefing<\/p>\n

We drank beer and talked about diving, dive accidents and the kid who died here a few years ago while SCUBA diving with his father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long Point, CA (aka The Old Marineland) Dove With Evil Jeff In With: 3000 psi Out With: 400 psi Max depth: 60 feet Waves: Minor Chop Visibility: 10 feet Water Temperature: Chilly Total Bottom Time: 65 minutes The small group of regular divers met at 8 AM; Reverend Al, Dennis G, Evil Jeff and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}