San Diego: Yukon Night Dive
Was recently diving the submerged Canadian warship Yukon at 100 ft., here in San Diego, recently--at night.
There are strong winter currents that sweep over and through the ship during all hours of the day and night here.....and I was passing one of the cut-out areas in the superstructure [cut-outs made for divers to enter], when a sudden 'updraft' sucked me into the ship about 6 ft. [ a couple meters], followed by an equally strong 'downdraft' which promptly 'spat' me out.
This is quite common on this wreck, by the way.
Only problem was, on my undignified way out, my fin strap caught on a metal flange in the opening, preventing me from fulling exiting and unfortunately, the power of the downwelling current rushing by me prevented me from from reaching over to my fin to un-stick it.
I was stuck there, in the cold and dark, for a scary couple of minutes, caught like a bug in amber, before the current finally 'released me' and let me go on my way.
Luckily, my dive buddy was close by and had been watching the whole thing, so I was in no 'real' danger......but, you know: in diving danger is 50% what you perceive it to be......and those were a couple uncomfortable moments, I can tell you.
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