{"id":1122,"date":"2008-03-07T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2008-08-18T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T01:34:16","slug":"logged-scuba-dive-278-lobster-hunting-off-the-island-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Logged SCUBA Dive #278 &#8211; Lobster Hunting Off The Island Diver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 72 6f 75 6e 64 20 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 62 65 61 63 68 20 6c 69 65 73 20 61 20 66 61 72 6d 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 6f 6e 6c 79 20 70 69 70 65 73 20 61 72 65 20 67 72 6f 77 6e 2e<\/p>\n<p>Southern California Buddy Diving With The Divevets off the Island Diver<\/p>\n<p>In With: 2900 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 500 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 90 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Minor chop, no current<br \/>\nVisibility: 15 feet +<br \/>\nWater Temperature: 56 degrees<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 20 minutes<br \/>\nNotable Event: This was the first time that I ever dove with a computer!<\/p>\n<p>I bought Dominic&#8217;s old computer from him for $60.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of us knew how the thing works, so I stuck to the dive tables and just looked at what the computer did.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was to try deep first and then shallower if need be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0136aaa.jpg\" alt=\"Divers gear up on The Island Diver\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was the first overboard and submerged down the anchor line to 85 feet.<\/p>\n<p>I trolled around the anchor line, then went South West and ran in to a heard of lobsters on the sand.<\/p>\n<p>Easy pickins&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no where to hide here.<\/p>\n<p>I was buzzed by a sea lion looking for someone to play with.<\/p>\n<p>I must have been narced because I had a hard time navigating;  I wasn&#8217;t sure from which direction I had been.<\/p>\n<p>Within 15 minutes I had bagged five good sized (for this season) bugs that I knew didn&#8217;t need remeasuring once I surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>I watched my air really carefully and started to surface at 1000 psi.<\/p>\n<p>I thought to myself, &#8220;If I only caught two more I wouldn&#8217;t have to do a second dive, I could just start drinking beer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I surfaced after an open water safety stop and made a short surface swim back to the boat.<\/p>\n<p>The rest made it back with zero to three bugs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0141aaa.jpg\" alt=\"Reverend Al brought up an enormous bug!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reverend Al brought up an enormous bug!<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made to stay put for the second dive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 72 6f 75 6e 64 20 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 62 65 61 63 68 20 6c 69 65 73 20 61 20 66 61 72 6d 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 6f 6e 6c 79 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,8,16,7,23,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}