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So, as a group of 6, we set off on a night dive to go lobster hunting out of Haleiwa this past Sunday/Monday at 12:01am....
Two of us were night newbies...the other 4 seasoned...
The dive all started with a local there telling us as we walked by to enter the water..."watch out for the great white sighted out there recently...I'm not joking..."
Ok, this is going to be fun...
Believe it or not...I took up diving to rid myself of the fear of the sea...sharks primarily... a year ago, I wouldn't be caught dead swimming 20' off the shoreline...now, look...I'm going diving 500 yards offshore in the middle of the night...
so anyhow, we geared up, entered the water, and started paddling out...what seemed like forever...we went out so far that the shore lights grew small and dim. As we approached our descent point, one of the divers called out..."hey you guys, I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think I saw a fin out of the corner of my eye"...alright, two comments about sharks...and guess what, I really didn't care...weird...
Anyhow, to make this story short...we saw lots of small regal lobsters...a slipper, but no spiny lobsters...it was a great experience to see fish sleeping in the cracks and crevices, all sorts of cleaner shrimp, and a very large sea turtle...it was sleeping on the bottom and someone had marked a number on it's shell...I think it said 512...
My friend and I didn't do so bad on air for our first night dive...I think our computers said...96minutes downtime with about 900psi left in our tanks...
Our only problem was that we surfaced and paddled in...getting confused on where we were suppose to land...we ended up about a half mile to the right of the boat harbor...getting to shore around a bunch of fisherman...they were cool and pointed us in the right direction...it was a fun night.
So, as a group of 6, we set off on a night dive to go lobster hunting out of Haleiwa this past Sunday/Monday at 12:01am....
Two of us were night newbies...the other 4 seasoned...
The dive all started with a local there telling us as we walked by to enter the water..."watch out for the great white sighted out there recently...I'm not joking..."
Ok, this is going to be fun...
Believe it or not...I took up diving to rid myself of the fear of the sea...sharks primarily... a year ago, I wouldn't be caught dead swimming 20' off the shoreline...now, look...I'm going diving 500 yards offshore in the middle of the night...
so anyhow, we geared up, entered the water, and started paddling out...what seemed like forever...we went out so far that the shore lights grew small and dim. As we approached our descent point, one of the divers called out..."hey you guys, I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think I saw a fin out of the corner of my eye"...alright, two comments about sharks...and guess what, I really didn't care...weird...
Anyhow, to make this story short...we saw lots of small regal lobsters...a slipper, but no spiny lobsters...it was a great experience to see fish sleeping in the cracks and crevices, all sorts of cleaner shrimp, and a very large sea turtle...it was sleeping on the bottom and someone had marked a number on it's shell...I think it said 512...
My friend and I didn't do so bad on air for our first night dive...I think our computers said...96minutes downtime with about 900psi left in our tanks...
Our only problem was that we surfaced and paddled in...getting confused on where we were suppose to land...we ended up about a half mile to the right of the boat harbor...getting to shore around a bunch of fisherman...they were cool and pointed us in the right direction...it was a fun night.
