{"id":1504,"date":"2009-01-12T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2009-01-12T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T01:05:13","slug":"abandoned-fishing-nets-and-shark-fin-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Fishing Nets and Shark Fin Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of local articles that are worth mentioning from over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The first one is about a project by the <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceandefenders.org\/\">Ocean Defenders Alliance<\/a> to remove a huge 9,000 pound fishing net that had wrapped around the sunken fishing trawler Infidel, off of Catalina Island.<\/p>\n<p>The wreck rests on the ocean bottom at 150 feet and the net, which is 40 feet high and several hundred feet long, has become a death trap for creatures such as dolphins, sea lions, sharks, seals and fish.<\/p>\n<p>I have dove with some of the divers involved in this group.<\/p>\n<p>This is a dangerous project due to the depth and hazards.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the article, it states, &#8220;The limit for normal scuba diving is 120 feet beneath the surface&#8230; the divers relied on tanks filled with a special <strong>nitrous oxide<\/strong> mixture that enabled them to spend more time at the bottom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In case you aren&#8217;t aware, nitrous oxide is an anesthetic &#8211; it&#8217;s laughing gas!<\/p>\n<p>So, spending &#8220;more time at the bottom&#8221; on a &#8220;nitrous oxide mixture&#8221; is an eternity!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the reporter mistook &#8220;Nitrox&#8221; for &#8220;nitrous oxide?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Nitrox only allows you to stay under longer, not deeper;\u00a0 so, I am speculating that they may have used heliox or trimix.<\/p>\n<p>The complete article can be found here: <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-net12-2009jan12,0,3092633.story\">Divers Cut Away At Net That Has Been Killing Marine Life <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secondly &#8211; and I&#8217;m even surprised that it was offered to begin with &#8211; Carl Robbins and other SCUBA divers helped removed shark fin soup from the Barona Resort Chinese New Year celebration menu.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/shark_fining1.jpg' alt='Victims of shark fining.' \/><\/p>\n<p>Shark fin soup is a controversial Asian &#8220;delicacy&#8221; that relies on the fins of sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Some sharks are captured, hauled onto the deck and have their top fin sliced off before being released in a mutilated state back into the sea; this practice is being blamed for a decrease in shark populations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>After an email campaign, the Barona Resort quickly, and apologetically, took shark fin soup off of the menu; I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a loss to any of the guests as I hear shark fin soups tastes like shit anyways.<\/p>\n<p>The complete article can be found here: <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jan\/10\/1s10outdoors222756-scuba-diver-helps-get-shark-fin\/?zIndex=34931\">Scuba Diver Helps Get Shark Fin Soup Off Menu <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of local articles that are worth mentioning from over the weekend. The first one is about a project by the Ocean Defenders Alliance to remove a huge 9,000 pound fishing net that had wrapped around the sunken fishing trawler Infidel, off of Catalina Island. The wreck rests on the ocean bottom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"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=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}