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Originally Posted by WIDEOPENBITE  From my brother, a former commercial abalone diver at the Farralons. He was out a San Miguel Island the day an urchin diver was killed by Whitey.
95% of kills are at the surface; as visibility decreases - chances of human strike increase exponentially; same with breeding time (late fall, I believe).
Lesson: Don't be treading water off the swimstep, after a storm, while hunting your Christmas bugs. |
I knew him, Jimmy Robinson. We went to commercial dive school together at Santa barbara CC. He had just entered the water and was waiting for his tender to give him the collection bags when the fish took his left leg completely off and half the right in one bite. Never knew what hit him. He bled out almost before he could be hauled onto deck. Needless to say, the tender was completely freaked out. He had to stay with the body 4 hours until USCG got there and then had to drive the boat back to SB.