{"id":669,"date":"2007-11-14T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2008-02-11T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T02:37:41","slug":"logged-dive-261-lobster-hunting-off-the-island-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #261 – Lobster Hunting Off The Island Diver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 52 6f 75 6e 64 20 42 65 61 63 68 2c 20 31 30 20 6d 69 6e 75 74 65 73 20 6f 75 74 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 62 72 65 61 6b 20 77 61 74 65 72 20 6c 69 65 73 20 61 20 66 61 72 6d 20 6f 66 20 70 69 70 65 73 2e<\/p>\n

Night Diving, Solo Diving – So Cal Buddy Diving with the Divevets off of the Island Diver boat<\/p>\n

In With: 2900 psi
\nOut With: 400 psi
\nMax depth: 90 feet plus, maybe even more
\nWaves: Pretty damn flat
\nVisibility: 20 feet plus
\nWater Temperature: Cool
\nTotal Bottom Time: 30 minutes
\nNotable Event: Came close to running out of air, skipped safety stop, not good
\nLobsters caught: 3<\/p>\n

This boat was billed as the “last chance for lobster before Thanksgiving.”<\/p>\n

I think the lobsters might be going deeper now, so I bought my ticket early.<\/p>\n

Six divers, two DMs, Captain Dick and a Captain in training left around 7:30 PM to try our first deep lobster dive of the season.<\/p>\n

I was one of the first ones off the boat.<\/p>\n

There was a current going towards the North, but the ocean was pretty flat.<\/p>\n

I made it down the anchor line to 85 feet.<\/p>\n

There was another diver that was following me for a while with a huge, brightly lighted video rig.<\/p>\n

I swam against the current and spotted a few bugs, all too small.<\/p>\n

Then I came across a nice one, pinned it and bagged it!<\/p>\n

I caught my second one shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

I was at 90 feet and feeling pretty damn good; I was narced but composed.<\/p>\n

I usually feel OK after some time passes and this was the case on this dive, but I always felt sort of dingy.<\/p>\n

I then came across a pretty large lobster and pinned it.<\/p>\n

It’s tail started to flip in a vain attempt to flee, but I had a firm grip on it.<\/p>\n

I picked it up and fumbled with my bag.<\/p>\n

The damn thing was trying to hold my bag closed as I was trying to open it!<\/p>\n

The struggle ensued for a few minutes, but I successfully put the critter into the “lobster liberation bag.”<\/p>\n

I looked at my gauge, I was at 90 feet with 700 psi of air left… and looking at my watch – I had run out of bottom time!<\/p>\n

Fuck!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I headed for the surface.<\/p>\n

I kicked and kicked and kicked….<\/p>\n

My depth gauge still read “90 feet.”<\/p>\n

Did I have that much lobster weighing me down?<\/p>\n

I banged on my gauge a few times and the needle fell to 60 feet.<\/p>\n

Up and up… crap, I don’t know what it was, but I spent an awful long time getting to the surface.<\/p>\n

My air was rapidly running out.<\/p>\n

I broke surface maybe three minutes after starting; I had skipped the safety stop, which I don’t like to do.<\/p>\n

The boat was down current, but over some, about 80 yards away.<\/p>\n

I started the surface swim.<\/p>\n

The boat crew spotted me and shinned the brightest light at me – brighter than a Police searchlight.<\/p>\n

For a minute I wasn’t sure if I was heading to the boat or was in the process of dieing.<\/p>\n

All I saw was a bright light… go towards the light…<\/p>\n

I was the first back.<\/p>\n

I only remeasured one; the rest were way legal.<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy<\/p>\n

Jimmy The Bagman brought up a huge lobster and compares it with a legal one.<\/p>\n

Jimmy dumped the lobster back in the water to spawn more tasty bugs.<\/p>\n

\"Divers<\/p>\n

Divers unload their lobster bags… Whoa! Man! I’m seeing trails, maybe I’m still narced?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 52 6f 75 6e 64 20 42 65 61 63 68 2c 20 31 30 20 6d 69 6e 75 74 65 73 20 6f 75 74 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,8,18,16,7,23,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}