{"id":901,"date":"2008-01-09T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=901"},"modified":"2008-02-11T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T06:58:31","slug":"logged-dive-270-lobster-hunting-with-the-divevets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #270 – Lobster Hunting With The Divevets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 90 feet or so
\nWaves: Pretty Flat
\nVisibility: 15 feet, but dive bombing sea lions stirred the bottom
\nWater Temperature: Cold
\nTotal Bottom Time: 20 minutes
\nLobsters caught: 3<\/p>\n

The boat a couple weeks ago was canceled due to conditions; but another boat that went out a few days before came back full of lobsters.<\/p>\n

We pulled out of the deck a little after 7 PM.<\/p>\n

While slowly moving through the wake free zone of the harbor, the Captain spotted a HUGE fish floating on the surface.<\/p>\n

He turned around and his deck hand gaffed it and dragged it aboard.<\/p>\n

\"Dragging<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

It was a 110 pound Grupper.<\/p>\n

I asked the deckhand, “What are you going to do with it?”<\/p>\n

“It’s still breathing, so we’re going to fillet it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Isn’t that like eating road kill?” I responded.<\/p>\n

“No, he’s still alive, a boat probably just hit him,” he responded.<\/p>\n

The divers were wondering if we should throw it overboard to attract lobsters during our surface interval; but we were just joking.<\/p>\n

I was the first one off and cried as the 54 degree water ran into my wetsuit.<\/p>\n

I slowly went down the anchor line and went South; I stayed mostly in 80 feet of water.<\/p>\n

After five minutes I had caught two lobsters and thought I wouldn’t have a problem limiting on this dive.<\/p>\n

At 10 minutes I turned around and went back over the barren sand and pipes and caught my third one of the night.<\/p>\n

I surfaced slowly, making a three minute safety stop at 20 feet.<\/p>\n

When I broke surface, I could not see the boat, but I soon realized that a current had taken me further South when I was surfacing and the boat lights blended with the city lights on shore.<\/p>\n

I had a nice 80 yard surface swim back to the boat.<\/p>\n

A group of sea lions circled and bombed the divers.<\/p>\n

\"Divers<\/p>\n

The rest of the divers followed in with a moderate amount of small, but legal lobsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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