{"id":290,"date":"2004-11-13T18:25:31","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T01:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-01-19T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T04:09:05","slug":"logged-dive-89-attack-of-the-killer-sea-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #89 – Attack Of The Killer Sea Lions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rookery
\nSanta Barbara Island, CA off of the Sundiver Boat<\/p>\n

Dove with Nick<\/p>\n

In With: 2800 psi
\nOut With: 1000 psi
\nMax depth: 25 feet
\nWaves: Insignificant and not much current here
\nVisibility: 30 feet
\nWater Temperature: Cold
\nTotal Bottom Time: 60 minutes
\nNotable Event: Annoyed by hundreds of Sea Lions<\/p>\n

From what I understand, this is usually reserved for the last dive since it’s so shallow.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot more kelp than the last dive and literally tons of sea lions.<\/p>\n

Basically, all we did was screw around with the sea lions – I believe sea lions have ears and seals don’t.<\/p>\n

This was a relatively shallow dive – 25 feet at the most.<\/p>\n

We were constantly bombarded with sea lions. <\/p>\n

They swam right toward us and then turned away at the last second.<\/p>\n

\"Nick<\/p>\n

Nick almost gets hit by a sea lion.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/p>\n

Sea Lions swap spit.<\/p>\n

\"Reconnaissance<\/p>\n

Reconnaissance scouts the attack target.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\"Nick<\/p>\n

Nick is dive bombed by vicious sea lions.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A nearby diver is almost dealt a fatal blow by a dive bombing sea lion.<\/p>\n

We surfaced to try and swim back to the boat and escape…<\/p>\n

\"But<\/p>\n

…but the sea lions blocked our surface exit.<\/p>\n

The Sea Lions continued to attack…<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/p>\n

Nick found that by giving a few blasts of air on his BCD jacket, the noise would scare them away.<\/p>\n

We barely escaped death!<\/p>\n

The sea lions are pretty much fearless. <\/p>\n

I swear they were actually posing for some of the pictures.<\/p>\n

Nick had trouble equalizing toward the end.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Going back to the boat, I noticed that most of the divers were very close to the boat still – basically entertaining themselves with the sea lions.<\/p>\n

This apparently is a marine preserve. <\/p>\n

According to the captain, “you can’t even take sand here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rookery Santa Barbara Island, CA off of the Sundiver Boat Dove with Nick In With: 2800 psi Out With: 1000 psi Max depth: 25 feet Waves: Insignificant and not much current here Visibility: 30 feet Water Temperature: Cold Total Bottom Time: 60 minutes Notable Event: Annoyed by hundreds of Sea Lions From what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}