Lobster hunting off the “Island Diver” boat with the Divevets Group

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So Cal Buddy diving with Roland B./night diving

In With: 2800 psi
Out With: 300 psi
Max depth: 100 feet (briefly)
Waves: Light chop
Visibility: 15 feet
Water Temperature: About 55 degrees Fahrenheit I would say
Total Bottom Time: 45 minutes

It was raining slightly.

I finally met Roland B., one of the founders of Divevets.

“Ax” and “Steph” were there, so were Dominic, Tony, Jimmy The Bags Man and someone else.

Dominic caught me putting my BC on the tank upside down.

Ooops!

Some of these divers had never seen me before.

The boat left at 8 PM or so.

I explained to Roland how crappy of a buddy I am when it comes to lobster hunting.

Roland said, “Me too” and buddied with me as “same day, same ocean.”

I was the first off the boat, maybe second.

I went down the anchor line and to the South East – and trolled and trolled.

At about 95 feet, I spotted what was left of some metal pill box with part of the lid collapsed.

Under it was two hopefully legal lobsters.

I lifted the lid, up came silt and a crab that jumped on the lobster – for whatever reason.

How heroic!

They retreated.

I couldn’t grab them; I have a phobia of grabbing for things in confined places because of eels and such.

I kept trolling, but was running low on air after 30 minutes.

A seal or sea lion buzzed me for a few minutes.

I surfaced very slowly doing a safety stop for about a minute at 20 feet or so.

I surfaced about 70 yards from the boat and swam back without incident.

Out of eight divers, two legal lobsters were caught.