Baja Dive Adventures<\/a>; he had just finished teaching a spear fishing class.<\/p>\nAl has been free diving for decades and runs trips down to Bahia Tortugas, Mexico for spear fishing.<\/p>\n
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He said, “Everybody comes back with fish, even if I have to spear them myself.”<\/p>\n
His father was killed by a shark in the early 1970’s while he was on the boat, but witnessing that hasn’t kept him strictly on land.<\/p>\n
I would be more afraid of getting killed by Mexican drug cartels than sharks, but I’ve heard that’s all media hype.<\/p>\n
We’ve been diving here for years, and everybody has noticed the absence of fish that were once around these waters; efforts are being made to make this part of the Palos Verdes coastline a marine preserve.<\/p>\n
The consensus of dive reports was four to six or eight to ten feet of visibility – depending on where you dove – with one hell of a thermal cline that brought the water temperature down to 54 degrees.<\/p>\n
Last week was apparently a lot better.<\/p>\n
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Kilani has a new hobby – car dodging.<\/p>\n
The topic of conversation eventually shifted to the “couple who do the most” – there seems to be two studs in particular, that are in our diving circle, who bang any female dive groupie they want. <\/p>\n
And, according to one of their reports, one of the females is so freaky that she would put even the most hard core porn actress to shame.<\/p>\n
I must find out their secrets of success – being macho and driving a Duster hasn’t been paying off with the women lately.<\/p>\n
I must get back into the water – maybe Wednesday?<\/p>\n
Last week, Professional Debriefer Paul made a short video of the Owl guy and conditions.<\/p>\n
This video is from June 12, 2011 –<\/p>\n
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