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<\/p>\nLogged SCUBA Dive #317<\/p>\n
Secret Location: 4a 75 73 74 20 61 20 73 70 6f 74 20 6f 66 66 20 74 68 65 20 47 61 74 65 73 20 4f 66 20 4d 61 72 2c 20 6e 65 61 72 20 74 68 65 20 70 69 70 65 2c 20 63 6c 6f 73 65 20 74 6f 20 74 68 65 20 65 64 67 65 2e, Palos Verdes, CA<\/p>\n
Solo Diving\/SoCal Buddy Diving<\/p>\n
In With: 2900 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 60 feet
\nWaves: Pretty flat
\nVisibility: 20 feet
\nTemperature: Getting Pretty Cold!
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 40 minutes minutes<\/p>\n
We motored over to Palos Verdes for a second lobster dive of the night; hopefully I won’t get skunked!<\/p>\n
Having no watch and a computer that wouldn’t turn on, I had to make an educated guess as to when and how long my next dive would be.<\/p>\n
Off the zodiac, we submerged and soon went our our separate ways.<\/p>\n
This was an interesting dive with sparse kelp at the ocean floor, complex reef structure and an abundance of a wide variety of sea life.<\/p>\n
A was combing the bottom with my light and came upon a five foot sand shark taking a nap on the ocean floor; I almost swallowed my regulator as I was not expecting to run across a shark.<\/p>\n
I swam away, luckily for the shark, as I am certain I would’ve kicked it’s ass.<\/p>\n
I approached a huge lobster and pinned it… it was like grabbing a Foster’s “oil can” of beer; that was all the measuring I needed and I bagged it.<\/p>\n
I was in 50 to 60 feet of water.<\/p>\n
I caught two more, but they were short and were released unharmed.<\/p>\n
Getting down to 500 psi, I headed towards the boat and grabbed onto it’s side.<\/p>\n
I unhooked my game bag, threw it on the zodiac… I unhooked my weight belt and threw it on the zodiac… I unhooked my BCD and tied it to the side… grabbing the rope that circles the boat, I did a muscle up and pulled myself in; kelp was dragging.<\/p>\n
I sat on the floor of the zodiac, took one fin off and then… “Where the fuck is my other fin?”<\/p>\n
I know I had it when I got to the boat, I would have noticed if I was swimming with only one fin.<\/p>\n
It must have fallen off as I was lifting myself up through the kelp; that is a downside to having spring loaded fin straps.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, they come off too easily!<\/p>\n
Luckily, Instructor John made it back to the boat and was able to descend and retrieve my lost fin at the anchor line.<\/p>\n
I said, “Thank you John, if I had seven lobsters, I would give you one.”<\/p>\n
John pulled himself onto the boat and said, “I couldn’t take it anyways, I limited tonight.”<\/p>\n
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John caught four more bugs on the second dive.<\/p>\n
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A beer in one hand and a three pound bug in the other – do I look macho, or what?<\/p>\n
I swim slowly, looking under the kelp and on top of the reefs; John tends to cover as much ground as possible as fast as possible – tonight, John’s technique paid off, in addition to being lucky.<\/p>\n
We pulled anchor and made a nice and pretty flat voyage back to the harbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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