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Southern California Buddy Diving With The Divevets off the Island Diver<\/p>\n
In With: 2900 psi
\nOut With: 1000 psi
\nMax depth: 85 feet
\nWaves: Minor chop
\nVisibility: 15 feet plus
\nWater Temperature: 55 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 24 minutes<\/p>\n
Two nights before the end of lobster season and I’m on the Island Diver again with the Divevets.<\/p>\n
The owner of the boat went to Florida with the GPS system, so the Captain Anthony stopped by “The other boat” to borrow its GPS.<\/p>\n
We anchored just outside Naja’s while the Captain ransacked the other boat for the navigation tool.<\/p>\n
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Looking at Naja’s near the boat launch.<\/p>\n
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Looking towards Quality Seafood.<\/p>\n
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As we were waiting in the back of the boat, looking macho with all of our SCUBA gear around, some tourists – two older females and two children – started asking us what we were doing going diving at sunset.<\/p>\n
Dan explained how we hunt lobsters underwater with our bare hands; they were astounded and a little freaked out.<\/p>\n
They were also impressed that a female was on board.<\/p>\n
Dan later said, “Why was I even talking to those kids? I don’t even talk to my own.”<\/p>\n
After 15 minutes, the Captain returned with GPS coordinates, but no GPS; he would attempt to get us to our secret spot by dead reckoning using landmarks.<\/p>\n
We sped out and trolled around while the Captain figured out where our spot probably was.<\/p>\n
A small bathtub sized zodiac was waiting in the water and started to follow us.<\/p>\n
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We thought it was some illegal aliens or potential terrorists, but we later found out that it was a few divers that couldn’t get on board, so they just followed us out to our secret spot.<\/p>\n
I was the first one overboard and went down the anchor line, touching bottom at 85 feet.<\/p>\n
The first thing I did was check the anchor – a lot of times there’s bugs around.<\/p>\n
Our secret spot is an old dumping ground of sewer pipes and construction equipment – the Captain put the boat right above it.<\/p>\n
Pretty damn good job for not having a GPS!<\/p>\n
I saw a lot of sand bass and a few short bugs.<\/p>\n
But, this soon after sunset, the pipes and boxes should be filled with lobsters – they weren’t.<\/p>\n
So, none in the pipes means there probably won’t be any on the sand.<\/p>\n
I was feeling pretty good with a narc-buzz going on, but I kept my composure.<\/p>\n
I looked for a good 20 minutes and pinned two short ones.<\/p>\n
The longer I go without seeing bugs, the larger the short lobsters look.<\/p>\n
I ascended, doing an open water safety stop and swam 40 yards back to the boat with an empty bag.<\/p>\n
Before the recent storms and swells, this place was crawling with bugs.<\/p>\n
Now, I’m speculating, that maybe the bugs have gone even deeper as they did in December and January.<\/p>\n
All the divers made it back, and all had empty bags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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