On time in the early 80's I was night diving on the north shore. It was my first night dive. I dove down in the reef and broke my light. when I came up, I couldnt tell the difference between the lights at princeville hotel and the lights at charo's and my diving partner was nowhere to be seen. I knew one was less than a mile and the other was several miles away. I also knew if I went toward the lights at princeville that the current coming out of hanalei bay would take me out to sea. I just couldn't tell which lights were which and just floated for 20 minutes in the dark. the water was way to rough to be diving and my diving buddy got caught in a wave and got pushed into me. He didn't know what he hit and took off swimming away. Since I had no light and wasn't sure where I was I wasn't going to let him get away. so I chased him and grabbed his fin. He turned and kicked me and kept swimming away, but I had his fin in my hand so it was easy to catch him the second time. then he turned his speargun at me but shined his light on me first. He new the reef pretty good and knew which way to go. but he was having good luck. and handed his bag and fish box to me and kept spear fishing. An hr later while he was down in the reef and I was up top a set came in and wash me up on the beach. I got rolled up on the shore and heard music and saw christmas lights. I tried to get untangled and some ladies on the beach started screaming and ran into charo's. My buddy got wash up on the next set and asked up I was alright. I told him I was fine but just scared two tourist. We looked over and the were coming out of charo's with a manager. Since we had too many lobster we just ran down the beach and went home. The headlines the next day said. Two Tourist See Fish Monster While having Mai Tai's at Charo's.
Great riding in Kauai. How long have you been on the Island
