I have to say, this year sucked for me and SCUBA diving.<\/p>\n
I didn’t get into the water until July because of the weather and conditions, one of our main diving characters – Dennis Gunn – died in February, another has developed health problems, the opening night lobster boat was cancelled because the Captain broke his back and by the end of this year, I have logged seven dives.<\/p>\n
Seven dives – that is my total for the year and an all time record low.<\/p>\n
A big part of my diving problem after lobster season began was that New England Divers<\/a> was in the process of moving and I was not able to fill my high quality Luxfer Aluminum tanks from the 1980s.<\/p>\n Even though my tanks pass visual inspection and hydro, both Pacific Wilderness<\/a> and Dive N Surf<\/a> told me to never bring my tanks back in their shop again.<\/p>\n Of course, Sports Chalet and Sea D Sea told me the same thing and both are out of business.<\/p>\n As a matter of fact, I had to rent tanks when I went on my last lobster boat.<\/p>\n And that reminds me, I caught only one lobster this year, too – which is still more lobsters than 2015, so I guess it’s not all bad.<\/p>\n I have also put a deposit down on one of the most insane SCUBA diving trips by rational standards.<\/p>\n This trip isn’t until July of 2017, but if you thought my diving trip to Albania was crazy, this next trip may just top it.<\/p>\n