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<\/p>\nLogged SCUBA Dive #318<\/p>\n
Secret Location: 4f 6e 20 6f 72 20 76 65 72 79 20 63 6c 6f 73 65 20 74 6f 20 74 68 65 20 66 61 72 6d 20 74 68 61 74 20 67 72 6f 77 73 20 70 69 70 65 73, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
Solo Diving\/SoCal Buddy Diving<\/p>\n
In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 600 psi
\nMax depth: 80 feet
\nWaves: Pretty flat
\nVisibility: 15-20 feet
\nTemperature: Maybe 60 degrees or so
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 25 minutes minutes<\/p>\n
Instructor John was unable to dive during the week, so I’ve been dry for over seven days \u00a0 now.<\/p>\n
My dive computer needs batteries and I stripped the screw hole trying to open the battery compartment; it’s back to diving with the tables until I can figure out how to repair it.<\/p>\n
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We left the dock a little after 7 PM; it was a stag boat, with eight divers plus the Captain.<\/p>\n
We anchored at one of our secret spots that should provide us with a mega supply of bugs this time of year.<\/p>\n
I was one of the first ones overboard and under.<\/p>\n
I descended down the anchor chain and noticed that the anchor was actually dangling 10 feet above the ocean floor; there was no current, but I was wondering if this would be an impromptu drift dive.<\/p>\n
I found out later that the Captain gave the anchor more line after a while.<\/p>\n
I had about 20 minutes of bottom time and searched as fast as I could for as many lobsters as I could.<\/p>\n
I missed grabbing a pretty large bug that was hiding in a pipe; I continued on …<\/p>\n
My light hit a HUGE lobster at 80 feet, just crawling along the bottom!<\/p>\n
I angled my light away, approached it and pinned it!<\/p>\n
I couldn’t get a grip on it with just one hand, so I dropped my light and put the bug in a Jiu Jitsu style choke hold with my other arm, it’s tail flailed and hit me in the nuts.<\/p>\n
I was able to wrap my other arm around it’s torso and hold it close to my chest while I opened my spring loaded lobster liberation bag.<\/p>\n
After a brief struggle, the lobster tired and crawled into my bag, accepting the fate that awaited him.<\/p>\n
At 1200 psi I started heading back, seeing only shorts after that.<\/p>\n
I surfaced fairly close to the boat and was the second one back.<\/p>\n
Mirek did a five minute dive before calling it; he said, “I didn’t like what I saw, so I headed back to not waste time.”<\/p>\n
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I worked my upper body strength by doing lobster curls.<\/p>\n
The rest of the divers trickled in; Dan caught two legal bugs while everyone else got skunked.<\/p>\n
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Dan weighed my monster bug in at 5.3 pounds.<\/p>\n
It’s on to our second spot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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