[Polystigma]

We went diving at catalina island last weekend and my buddie was hit by a zodiac. I was on the boat and noticed a guy in a zodiac heading in my buddies direction. So I began to scream furiously at the top of my lungs "diver in the water". While at the same time pointing frantically in my buds direction. The guy in the zodiac was trolling some lures and just stared at me.
I looked over and saw my buddies Riffe torpedo float WITH FLAG about 20ft ahead of the zodiac. However, my buddie was submerged and I could not warn him. I saw the commotion and my bud come up a few moments later. He was flayaling at the surface, but appeared allright. The guy in the zodiac stopped and began reeling in one of his rods. Because he had snagged a piece of kelp. My bud swam over to him and spat a few dirty words at him. The ass had headphones on and did not hear a word of it and did not even say a word back.


Later my bud got back to the boat and told me what had happened. He heard the boat coming, but had to come up for air. He did his best to angle away from the boat. However, on his way up he hit his head on the bow of the zodiac. Then he quickly ducked down again and had the propeller pass within inches above his head.
In addition, he told me that if it had been a hard hulled vessel he would have probably been knocked out and hit by the prop.
I really hate diving catalina, especially on a long weekend! It is so hard to just relax and enjoy diving, when you constantly have to worry about boats.
He even had that huge torpedo float and he was still hit. Are people just stupid or what?