{"id":1519,"date":"2009-01-30T23:45:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2009-01-31T01:58:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T08:58:29","slug":"operation-lobster-liberation-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Operation: Lobster Liberation Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logged SCUBA Dive #329<\/p>\n<p>Secret Location: 53 6f 75 74 68 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 67 61 74 65 73 20 6f 66 20 4d 61 72 2c 20 6f 6e 65 20 63 6f 76 65 20 6f 76 65 72 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 74 68 65 20 6c 69 67 68 74 68 6f 75 73 65 2e, Palos Verdes<\/p>\n<p>Solo Diving\/SoCal Buddy Diving<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 400 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 60 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Minor swells, but pretty darn flat<br \/>\nVisibility: 15 feet+<br \/>\nTemperature: 57 degrees<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 35 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Instructor John and (Newly Certified) Instructor Ron and I took the faithful zodiac out tonight to liberate more lobsters.<\/p>\n<p>We were going to try a deep spot and then, maybe shallower.<\/p>\n<p>Hoop netters were already at one of our secret spots along the edge of the canyon &#8211; hoop netting in the exact location.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to try Palos Verdes.<\/p>\n<p>On the way over, we also noticed another hoop netter on the Palawan wreck;  are the lobsters deep?<\/p>\n<p>We anchored in 50 feet of water;  I was the first to submerge.<\/p>\n<p>Lobsters littered the floor &#8211; actually I should state that micro-lobsters littered the floor.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed and pinned what I thought was a legal bug, but upon measuring it, it was a half inch short; I released it unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>Vis was good at the bottom; sort of murky at the top.<\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of interesting reef structure, ling cod and various other sea life;  but, unfortunately no legal bugs.<\/p>\n<p>I was the first one back to the boat;  John followed with one legal lobster.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0152lobsterliberation.jpg\" alt=\"Ron displays his prize from this dive.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instructor Ron followed with one legal bug.<\/p>\n<p>We moved the boat further North for the second dive of the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logged SCUBA Dive #329 Secret Location: 53 6f 75 74 68 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 67 61 74 65 73 20 6f 66 20 4d 61 72 2c 20 6f 6e 65 20 63 6f 76 65 20 6f 76 65 72 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 74 68 65 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,7,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"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=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}