Scuba Happy :)

Howdy, welcome to the Scuba Happy Blog, the topic for my first Blog is to share a story about one of the best of many scuba diving experiences in my life. If anyone has a similar story please let it rip. It was a very cold morning on the Oregon coast in Garibaldi Oregon, We were suppose to have the boat underway at 5 am to catch the tide over the bar. The Captain made the call the trip was on;  He checked his usual sources to find out about the weather and we were off. After a 2.5 hour boat ride we arrived at the site. Everyone was in the water and down. I entered the water and my decent to the bottom was without issue, I got my bearings and started to head to my earlier calculated compass heading towards a large rock swarming with birds. I was about 60 feet down when i started to see the birds swimming under the water to 40 ft to get into a school of bait fish, quite a spectacle to witness. I headed off with my spear gun ready for action. I come around this large rock and immediately seen a very large halibut buried in the sand, (all you could see was his eyes)  I pulled the trigger on the spear gun and the ride was off, that halibut was doing very fast circles round and round until he was right up next to me, I took my stringer and poked it through his eye and he was done, I'm not sure I would shoot a Halibut again it was quite adrenaline rushing experience and I will never forget it. When I got back to the boat they said it was a record halibut for the year and they were all amazed that I was able to keep it, I told them it almost got away, if  I would have missed with the stringer pointed end into his eye,  it would have been a different story, he would have gotten away. Thanks Greg