Went diving at the Underwater Park in front of the Casino at Catalina Island last weekend. I had heard from a few divers who were there a few days earlier that the large Black Sea Bass (300-400lbs large) were spotted in the park. Well, I gather a lot of divers got that news! The place was packed with divers, students and certified divers alike. Made for interesting entrances and exits.... The diving was great... but the Black Sea Bass were no where to be found and I flooded the digital camera/housing I had borrowed. That was fun. Funniest part was that I flooded (total flood) it early in the dive so decided to dive anyway and just deal with it when I returned to shore. I couldn't close the housing (that's right, the door was wide open!)due to the water pressure. So I surfaced, raised the flooded housing out of the water, dumped the water out, closed the housing door and prepared to descend again. I noticed I had surfaced among some new dive students and they were watching me with great interest. I wished them a great dive and descended, likely leaving them wondering what I was thinking.....My dive buddy, Pete, did get some good shots with his digital as you can see here. He would not let me borrow his camera for the second dive. I wonder why????
Do you think he's being unreasonable?
Budd
Went diving at the Underwater Park in front of the Casino at Catalina Island last weekend. I had heard from a few divers who were there a few days earlier that the large Black Sea Bass (300-400lbs large) were spotted in the park. Well, I gather a lot of divers got that news! The place was packed with divers, students and certified divers alike. Made for interesting entrances and exits.... The diving was great... but the Black Sea Bass were no where to be found and I flooded the digital camera/housing I had borrowed. That was fun. Funniest part was that I flooded (total flood) it early in the dive so decided to dive anyway and just deal with it when I returned to shore. I couldn't close the housing (that's right, the door was wide open!)due to the water pressure. So I surfaced, raised the flooded housing out of the water, dumped the water out, closed the housing door and prepared to descend again. I noticed I had surfaced among some new dive students and they were watching me with great interest. I wished them a great dive and descended, likely leaving them wondering what I was thinking.....My dive buddy, Pete, did get some good shots with his digital as you can see here. He would not let me borrow his camera for the second dive. I wonder why????
Do you think he's being unreasonable?
Budd
