{"id":661,"date":"2007-10-08T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2008-02-11T18:36:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T01:36:56","slug":"logged-dive-254-lobster-hunting-off-of-johns-zodiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #254 &#8211; Lobster Hunting Off Of John&#8217;s Zodiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location:<br \/>\n4f 6e 20 74 68 65 20 68 69 6c 6c 20 6f 66 20 67 72 65 65 6e 20 74 72 65 65 73 20 62 65 74 77 65 65 6e 20 61 20 66 6c 61 74 20 72 6f 63 6b 20 61 6e 64 20 44 6f 6d 69 6e 61 74 72 69 78 20 6c 69 65 73 20 61 20 6d 61 72 72 65 64 20 67 61 74 65 20 77 69 74 68 20 6c 69 76 65 20 6e 6f 72 69 2e 20 4f 66 66 20 74 68 65 20 64 72 61 69 6e 20 6e 65 61 72 20 70 61 63 2d 6d 61 6e 20 74 72 65 65 20 61 6e 64 20 66 6f 75 72 20 70 69 70 65 73 2e<\/p>\n<p>Solo Diving, So Cal Buddy Diving, night diving, off of John&#8217;s Zodiac<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 500 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 35 feet<br \/>\nWaves: 1-2 foot swells, pretty calm<br \/>\nVisibility: 15-20 feet, pretty clear<br \/>\nWater Temperature: Cool<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 45 minutes<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a little congested and the ocean conditions have reportedly sucked in the last few days, so I&#8217;ve been out of the water for the last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Island Diver went out Saturday night and reported conditions were  &#8220;worse than bad, but there were lobsters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John and Jim went out last night, Sunday, for a  one tank dive and reported calm and clear conditions.<\/p>\n<p>We boarded the mighty Zodiac and sped off to our secret spot.<\/p>\n<p>We were in the water around 9:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>John had to do some minor repairs on his rig, but soon were all in the chilly but clear water submerging in to the 35 foot dark abyss in search of lobster.<\/p>\n<p>I headed toward the shore and got to 15 feet;  I had not spotted a single lobster.<\/p>\n<p>I turned around and headed toward deeper waters.<\/p>\n<p>I ran across John and Jim, neither had anything in their bags.<\/p>\n<p>I knew the lobsters were there someplace, obviously not in the shallows.<\/p>\n<p>I spotted a few small lobsters around 25 feet and caught a legal one at 30 feet.<\/p>\n<p>I came across another one, but it was hiding under a rock.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed for it, it shot out the back, turned and ran into me.<\/p>\n<p>It got away.<\/p>\n<p>I hung out in that area and scooped up two more, one was like grabbing a small football.<\/p>\n<p>I came across John and Jim again and then the anchor line.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing I was under the boat, I breathed down to 500 psi looking for more.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed at one but it got away.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up catching three, John four, Jim two.<\/p>\n<p>Another great lobster dive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 6e 20 74 68 65 20 68 69 6c 6c 20 6f 66 20 67 72 65 65 6e 20 74 72 65 65 73 20 62 65 74 77 65 65 6e 20 61 20 66 6c 61 74 20 72 6f 63 6b 20 61 6e 64 20 44 6f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,7,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}