{"id":4372,"date":"2016-11-19T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T18:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2016-11-19T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T18:32:05","slug":"finally-a-lobster-boat-and-a-lobster-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=4372","title":{"rendered":"Finally! A Lobster Boat and a Lobster Dive!"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 18, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry for slacking lately!<\/p>\n

I’ve had some issues other than diving to take care of, and since this blog is only a small tax write off, I am forced to keep my regular job as a full time peon.<\/p>\n

Chipper told me about a lobster boat that Nice Bob was chartering and said, “Since Donna The Hot Biker Chick can’t go, we decided to invite you.” <\/p>\n

This time, I actually had the money, or at least enough room on my credit card.<\/p>\n

The boat was the six pack diving boat “The Island Diver” that I have been on many times before; Dive N Surf<\/a> brought the boat from Rocky Point a few years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/p>\n

We were all geared up and off by 6:10 PM. <\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/p>\n

The diving crew consisted of The Other Jeff, Nice Bob, Reverend Al, some guy named Joe, Chipper and myself; the DM and Captain made it complete.<\/p>\n

We thought we would try no deeper than 50 feet, so we headed to a secret location off of Palos Verdes picked by the Captain.<\/p>\n

\"Lobster
\nI was the first one off, carrying my new invention – The Lobster Cam!<\/em><\/p>\n

Logged SCUBA Dive #503<\/p>\n

Solo Diving<\/p>\n

SECRET LOCATION: 43 61 70 74 61 69 6e 20 6e 61 6d 65 64 20 73 75 72 66 20 73 70 6f 74 20 73 6b 69 20 6a 75 6d 70, Palos Verdes, CA<\/p>\n

In With: 3100 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 43 feet
\nWaves: Surface was flat, some surge at the bottom
\nVisibility: 10-15 feet with some silt
\nWater Temperature: 62 degrees
\nAir Temperature: 66 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 36 minutes<\/p>\n

I descended and dropped on sand and started to swim towards shore.<\/p>\n

All I saw was sand; I asked myself, “Why the hell did we come here?”<\/p>\n

There was no structure here at all and I was a little pissed.<\/p>\n

I ended up finding a small reef, but it was barren of even short lobsters.<\/p>\n

I surfaced to get my bearings and discovered I was right next to the boat – I had been going around in circles.<\/p>\n

I submerged again and headed towards the shore.<\/p>\n

Visibility was patchy as there was some surge.<\/p>\n

\"Lobster<\/p>\n

I started to see short lobsters and then was able to pin an obvious legal one – until I measured it; yeah, it was short.<\/p>\n

When I got down to 700 psi, I spotted a large lobster; without hesitation, I swam over and pinned it, just as my leg started to cramp.<\/p>\n

I am macho, so I easily ignored the pain.<\/p>\n

It was like grabbing a beer can! <\/p>\n

I put it directly in my bag, surfaced and swam to the boat.<\/p>\n

I was the first one back; we remeasured the lobster using the Captain’s lobster gauge and it was short. <\/p>\n

It was the girth of a beer can, how the fuck could it be short?<\/p>\n

I was just about to throw it back, when I remeasured with my gauge – it was way legal!<\/p>\n

We were accidentally using the “Crab” gauge side, and not the lobster side – Phew!<\/p>\n

Other divers made it back with either one or two lobsters, except for one exception.<\/p>\n

\"Me
\nMe with my lobster.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The
\nThe Other Jeff caught the biggest one.<\/em><\/p>\n

We decided to move the boat to a “better spot” to be picked by Nice Bob and the Other Jeff.<\/p>\n

Lobster Cam Footage is here:<\/p>\n

\"Lobster<\/a><\/p>\n

Stay tuned for a report of our second lobster dive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 18, 2016 Sorry for slacking lately! I’ve had some issues other than diving to take care of, and since this blog is only a small tax write off, I am forced to keep my regular job as a full time peon. Chipper told me about a lobster boat that Nice Bob was chartering and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,8,7,9,10,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}