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Night Diving, Solo Diving – So Cal Buddy Diving with the Divevets off of the Island Diver boat<\/p>\n
In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 900 psi
\nMax depth: 110 feet or so
\nWaves: Sort of Challenging Chop
\nVisibility: 20 feet
\nWater Temperature: Getting cold
\nTotal Bottom Time: 20 minutes
\nLobsters caught: 2<\/p>\n
This is the last lobster boat this year.<\/p>\n
It gets really hard to get in the water in January, so I was really gung ho for this trip.<\/p>\n
I even purchased a better light that puts out a lot more wattage and white light.<\/p>\n
We left dock a little after 7 PM with a full boat, the new Captain and two deck hands.<\/p>\n
Apparently, the deckhands were just on board to observe a lobster diving trip.<\/p>\n
I was told that the water temperature is warmer than the air.<\/p>\n
I was the first one overboard and regardless of how cold the air was, the water was chilly enough for me to yell out “Holy shit, this water is cold!”<\/p>\n
I went down the anchor line and planned about 12 minutes on the bottom at this depth.<\/p>\n
I hit bottom at 110 feet and started going East.<\/p>\n
The boat was right on a set of pipes and I trolled around the sand looking for bugs.<\/p>\n
I was 110 feet down in cold water and I have to admit, this was probably the most narced I’ve ever been in my entire life.<\/p>\n
It felt like a strong listless head buzz where I wasn’t exactly sure about navigation.<\/p>\n
I kept my composure and ran across my first lobster about four minutes in to the dive; I pinned and bagged it.<\/p>\n
I started to feel better as the time went on.<\/p>\n
I bagged a second legal lobster and started heading up after 12 minutes.<\/p>\n
Including the safety stop, it took me about seven minutes to break the surface.<\/p>\n
Back on the boat, I double checked the size of my lobsters.<\/p>\n
One of the new deck hands commented, “there is no way you could get me down there, that deep in the middle of the night… you guys are crazy.”<\/p>\n
Not crazy, just macho.<\/p>\n
Dan came back freezing cold after his drysuit sprung a leak; he was done for the night.<\/p>\n
Another diver caught a lobster, everyone else got skunked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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