Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
(aka The Old Marineland)

Dove With Nick

In With: 3000 psi
Out With: 600 psi
Max depth: 40 feet
Waves: 1-3 feet
Visibility: 10 feet
Water Temperature: Cold
Total Bottom Time: 45 minutes

We met at 7:40 AM.

Nobody except the security guards, who were guarding the movie set, were there.

A few fishermen showed up as we were gearing up.

We went off the cove.

We had an experimental lobster hunting kit with us to study whether or not some urban legends about lobster hunting are true.

If we were to catch a lobster using this kit, we would turn it lose and record our findings.

We were determined to find the abandoned lobster trap.

We ran across a few lobsters backed in to some crevices, but Nick had lost the peanut butter.

What we were supposed to do with it, we weren’t sure.

We concentrated our lobstering efforts in 35-40 feet of water slightly East off of Pigeon Shit cave.

Nick came across a lobster and grabbed it freehand!

It was legal size!

Nick’s first legally caught lobster!

The “second kelp bed” has long since disappeared.

But, we did run across the lobster trap!

It has become a corroded pile of rusted wire; it’s not usable.

We exited with no problem; fins off, walked ashore.

Long Point, CA
(aka The Old Marineland)

Dove With Nick

In With: 2900 psi
Out With: 700 psi
Max depth: 35 feet, maybe 40
Waves: 1-2 feet
Visibility: 15 feet
Water Temperature: Cool
Total Bottom Time: 55 minutes

It was drizzling rain when I got there at 8:10 AM; other divers were there.

We were in the water around 9 AM.

Other divers were free diving with their tanks ashore; one was a short lady, skinny, with an English accent.

As far as I could tell, she was hot.

We went looking for the lobster trap that’s in 40 feet of water.

We couldn’t find it, but we ran across a lobster that we were trying to catch for 25 minutes.

We went back in running out of air on the search.

The water upon exit was calmer than going in.

I basically took my fins off and walked ashore.