Man, I told you to let me know when you were taking that class!! I would have been the perfect buddy for you in such a venture. The combined odor from our wetsuits would very likely have chased out those invasive otters.
As a side note, I have developed a technique for keeping those evil little guys away from me. I drink 2 quarts of Gatorade 1 hour before any dive in an otter infected area. By the time I've geared up for my dive, I gotta go potty, but I hold it. Now, during the dive I continuosly monitor my surroundings for signs of approaching otters (ie, small shadows in the water, machine gun bullets striking the water above me). At the first sign of an all out otter assault, I release all of the Gatorade. Imediately I am surrounded by 64 small gators, who proceed to chomping the everliving heck out of my antagonists. Once the first wave of attackers are neutralized, the gators disappear. However that strange "taste" lingers in the water for quite some time, & the otters can't seem to stand it, and allow me to exit the water & "Go" in peace.
