Painted Cave is the second largest Sea Cave on the west coast! It is big enough to pull the boat into it completely, which was done anytime we were close to it! But then again Glen was a risk taker!
At one point in my diving history I was going out on the Emerald at least once a month! But then Gas was 33.9 per gallon!
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And the Flashes used real flash bulbs!Originally Posted by thalassamania
Ron Roth and Lloyd Austin at Pt.Lobos cr. 1968
Pt. Lobos cr. 1968
Jim Davis, early 1970s
Lloyd Austin 1975
Hank Hicks 1975
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We were young, oh so young, and we took on the underwater world without Computers, Backup Regulators, or even Air Gages! We went with unbalanced first stages and breathed the tank until it got hard to breath and then you headed up! It is so funny to listen to debts about bringing back 500psi to the boat! On a single 72cubic foot tank you got 45 to 55 minutes as long as you could suck those last couple breaths! Your dive plan was finish your dive shallow!
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We went for the bounty of the sea! We hunted for the biggest and the limit was always expected! It was all there for the taking and we did! We were young and we eat well and so did our buddies and our families!
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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 ..."
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