A 80lb Halibut was not uncommon in the sand at 100ft! Hit it with your spear gun and hold on as it headed for deep water like a run-a-way kit in a hurricane! You held on to your gun and kicked for the surface as hard as you could! It was great eating and we had a rule that you always split your catch with your buddy! Witch set of steaks they got was a hole different story!
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We spent time on the dive deck with the "Modern Compressor" roaring to fill a couple tanks at a time! We brought two so one could be filled while you dived the other an hour or two later you had another full tank! Life was great and we were the only dive boat on the entire island! My buddy lost his dive knife on one trip and we found it a year later in the same spot! Who was going to recover it?
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Sounds like a dream......
And fuel was only $.89 per gallon so you could spend all day out in the boat.
When Glen launched the new boat the Coral Sea they closed down the streets to the harbor and the High School band marched it to the waters edge in a well planned parade of Santa Barbra's new harbor pride! For us it was like having a new luxury ride to our favorite places! In addition it opened up new areas that we didn't go in the "Old boat" for fear of late returns or worse problems! On one of those trips we did some banks of Santa Rosa Island and brought up huge lobster! This area is considered storm central with average winds at 28mph and you have to be ready to get out of Dodge in quick time in a sturdy boat!
Here we not only found huge lobster, but a 16 foot Great White who swam around us trying to figure out what we were! What we were was willing to risk a lot for hug bugs! The guy behind me in the shot was named Tinny and was 6'-8" tall and the smallest of two other brothers and a sister who was close to his hight! He was from El Central area of California and was going to Cal-Poly under the GI bill...... Tinny was a deputy sheriff in Imperial County until he went into the Army where he became a Nuclear Warhead specialist and was sent to Vietnam to retrieve two warheads that had been shipped to theater by mistake!!!! I am 6'-3" tall and he made me look small, but his heart and spirit were as big as he was!
We spend so little time under the water that our adventures and the people we choice to dive with are among the best treasures of our sport!
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The hair is awesome ....
-- "I'd like to be ... under the sea ... In an octopus' garden ... in the shade ..."
Good god man it was the 70's!
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Here is a picture from a world famous surf spot called County Line! It is on Pacific coast Hwy on the Venture & L.A. County line...... Out about 3/4 to 1 mile is a reef the shape of a circle and yes we would kick out to it! On the dive on this day we ran into Grey Whales on the way down on the reef! I saw movement in the 30ft viz and it got dark, I looked over and saw something, but couldn't tell my mind to compute what I was seeing! Until I saw the giant bright eye looking at my buddy and me blowing bubbles! She slowed to a stop and eyeballed us to her satisfaction before moving on South! It was a humbling experience that I still describe as wow!
On the way back in from this eventful dive I shot a halibut while we drifted south with the current! I bagged the fish and noticed movement off in the distance, I thought the whale was back, but it was a shark who wanted my fish! And was getting progressively closer to us! I got my buddies attention and we went back to back and pocked at the shark while we worked our way back to shore! We were now in the Kelp bed and it was getting shallower and we were feeling the surge from the surf!
I am sure there is a surfer out there with the reciprocal story about the "Diver who popped up next to him sitting on his board" and said "I don't think this is a good place to dangle your legs"! Well I also scared the crap out of the poor guy coming up right next to him! I saw him jump and explained there was a shark following us! He caught the next wave in and we exited with a nice sized Halibut! Good day after all!
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