{"id":1523,"date":"2009-02-03T23:23:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T06:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2009-02-03T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T06:23:43","slug":"lobster-hunting-off-of-redondo-beach-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"Lobster Hunting Off Of Redondo Beach, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logged SCUBA Dive #331<\/p>\n<p>Secret Location: 54 68 65 20 66 61 72 6d 20 74 68 61 74 20 6f 6e 6c 79 20 67 72 6f 77 73 20 70 69 70 65 73 2e, Redondo Beach<\/p>\n<p>Dove with Instructor John the first 10 minutes, then Solo Diving\/SoCal Buddy Diving<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 500 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 80 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Flat as a pancake<br \/>\nVisibility: 15 feet+<br \/>\nTemperature: 55 degrees<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 22 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Trying to find where the legal lobsters are, Instructor John and I set out in the mighty zodiac to hopefully limit before the forcasted storms come in.<\/p>\n<p>A boat that was hoop netting had four traps in the water;  they were polite and pointed out their traps.<\/p>\n<p>John and I submerged right on target &#8211; the GPS coordinates dropped us right on the artifical reef made up of pipes and bars.<\/p>\n<p>Short lobsters littered the ground;  John pinned one legal bug.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed for a legal looking bug, but it was too far in a pipe.<\/p>\n<p>John and I lost each other, but the plan was &#8220;To try and stay together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lincod were all over the place, in addition to a few sand sharks.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the gravel and then made it back to the pipes &#8211; not one legal lobster!<\/p>\n<p>Are the hoop netters getting them all this season?<\/p>\n<p>I surfaced and did a fairly short swim back to the boat, against the current that was moving South West.<\/p>\n<p>Reentering the zodiac, I dropped my reserve light, sacrificing it to the sea gods.<\/p>\n<p>Skunked again!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what it&#8217;s like after the upcoming storms pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logged SCUBA Dive #331 Secret Location: 54 68 65 20 66 61 72 6d 20 74 68 61 74 20 6f 6e 6c 79 20 67 72 6f 77 73 20 70 69 70 65 73 2e, Redondo Beach Dove with Instructor John the first 10 minutes, then Solo Diving\/SoCal Buddy Diving In With: 3000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,8,7,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"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=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}