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Donny Neal attaches a special dive tank to a harness worn by Paul Tattreau. The tank held a special nitrous oxide mixture that enabled them to spend more time at the bottom while reducing the chances of getting sick.
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Expedition aims to extract deadly fishing net from ocean floor

Net expedition

Donny Neal attaches a special dive tank to a harness worn by Paul Tattreau. The tank held a special nitrous oxide mixture that enabled them to spend more time at the bottom while reducing the chances of getting sick.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Net expedition

A group of technical divers gathered Sunday off the coast of Santa Catalina Island to cut a huge fishing net off of the Infidel, a fishing boat that sank two years ago. The billowing net has been catching and killing ocean dwellers including sharks and sea lions ever since.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Net expedition

This brittle star, rescued from a portion of the net cut from the Infidel, was returned to the sea.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Net expedition

Donny Neal and Kurt Lieber haul in netting. “It’s one of the spookiest things I’ve ever seen,” Lieber said of the underwater wreck site, where bones of countless dead marine animals litter the ocean floor.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Preparing gear

A diver prepares her gear as the Captain Jack, a 75-foot trawler, approaches Avalon harbor.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Net expedition

Dana Hoover, 8, prepares to look for surviving sea life in a recovered net. She and other youngsters picked brittle stars, gobies and sea slugs off the net and tossed them back in the ocean.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Expedition aims to extract deadly fishing net from ocean floor

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