{"id":285,"date":"2004-10-15T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T01:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2008-01-19T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T03:16:48","slug":"logged-dive-85-lobster-hunting-at-malaga-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #85, Lobster Hunting At Malaga Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA<\/p>\n<p>Night diving, lobster hunting with Nick<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 1000 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 15 feet<br \/>\nWaves:  1-2 feet<br \/>\nVisibility: 5 feet<br \/>\nWater Temperature: Cool<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 50 minutes<br \/>\nLOW, LOW TIDE!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been very rough the last week.  <\/p>\n<p>I went down to Malaga Cove after work to check on the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Tom from American Diving was leaving with two other divers and a lobster.  <\/p>\n<p>Tom advised, &#8220;It&#8217;s good, but no tide&#8230; go diving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I called Nick; we agreed to meet around 7 PM.<\/p>\n<p>We were the only divers there.<\/p>\n<p>In the water &#8211; <strong>off the sand <\/strong> &#8211; at about 7:20 PM.  <\/p>\n<p>Since it was ultra low tide, the sand was a must.<\/p>\n<p>We went South-West searching for lobsters on water that didn&#8217;t get deeper than 15 feet.<\/p>\n<p>We caught several shorts, but released them.  <\/p>\n<p>One big, legal one got away;  I think it was the only legal one I saw.  <\/p>\n<p>Fifteen shorts sighted for one legal I think was the ratio.<\/p>\n<p>My mask leaked until I fixed the purge valve.<\/p>\n<p>We exited with no problem.<\/p>\n<p>We met some other divers going in &#8211; one was a woman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA Night diving, lobster hunting with Nick In With: 3000 psi Out With: 1000 psi Max depth: 15 feet Waves: 1-2 feet Visibility: 5 feet Water Temperature: Cool Total Bottom Time: 50 minutes LOW, LOW TIDE! It&#8217;s been very rough the last week. I went down to Malaga Cove after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}