{"id":1120,"date":"2008-03-05T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T06:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2008-03-06T00:10:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T07:10:35","slug":"logged-dive-277-operation-lobster-liberation-from-johns-barf-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #277 &#8211; Operation Lobster Liberation From John&#8217;s Barf Bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 68 69 6c 6c 20 6f 66 20 67 72 65 65 6e 20 74 72 65 65 73 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 74 68 65 20 67 61 74 65 20 68 61 73 20 61 20 6d 61 72 2e<\/p>\n<p>Southern California Buddy Diving With Instructor John<\/p>\n<p>In With: 2700 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 500 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 50 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Pretty Flat, no current<br \/>\nVisibility: 15 feet +<br \/>\nWater Temperature: 55 degrees, sort of chilly<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 35 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I am back in the water after several weeks; it feels nice to finally go SCUBA diving again!<\/p>\n<p>I met Instructor John at the Marina; we were motoring out of the harbor on his zodiac around 7:40 PM.<\/p>\n<p>We submerged at our secret location and went our own separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>I went South bound, sort of towards shore; The vis was pretty good and clear.<\/p>\n<p>Within the first 10 minutes I had bagged two fairly small lobsters and trolled for more.<\/p>\n<p>I came across a sleeping Bat Ray that scared the shit out of me.<\/p>\n<p>I peaked on the surface twice to get my bearings \u2013 this is the place where I lost site of the zodiac on opening morning.<\/p>\n<p>Before swimming back to the boat, I remeasured my catch \u2013 they were both short!<\/p>\n<p>Again, these things must shrink in the air; I threw them back and swam back to the boat.<\/p>\n<p>John came back with three lobsters that he caught in the first five minutes when he went to check the anchor.<\/p>\n<p>I have to start making \u201cchecking the anchor\u201d a habit.<\/p>\n<p>An uneventful, but pleasant night of SCUBA diving;  I\u2019m glad I still remember how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 68 69 6c 6c 20 6f 66 20 67 72 65 65 6e 20 74 72 65 65 73 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 74 68 65 20 67 61 74 65 20 68 61 73 20 61 20 6d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,7,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}