{"id":940,"date":"2008-01-23T23:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2008-01-25T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T00:58:26","slug":"logged-dive-272-lobster-hunting-off-the-island-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #272 &#8211; Lobster Hunting Off The Island Diver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 74 68 65 20 63 6f 61 73 74 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 52 65 64 20 42 65 61 63 68 20 6c 69 65 73 20 61 20 72 65 65 66 20 6f 66 20 74 6f 69 6c 65 74 20 62 6f 77 6c 73 2e<\/p>\n<p>Off the Island Diver Boat<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 600 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: About 90 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Calm at first, but became increasingly choppy<br \/>\nVisibility: 25 feet<br \/>\nWater Temperature: Cold!<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 20 minutes<\/p>\n<p>So Cal Buddy Diving With Bob from the Divevets<\/p>\n<p>It has been raining for the last few days and was raining pretty hard on the way King Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>The wind was mild and there was no small craft advisory,\u00a0 so the trip was a go.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was delayed for 30 minutes while we waited for two divers who were stuck in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Bob and I were the first ones over and down the anchor line.<\/p>\n<p>I trolled for a few minutes before pinning my first lobster.<\/p>\n<p>The lobster was just barely legal, but I had to wrestle the thing from holding my console; Bob later commented that he thought that I grabbed a huge one from the amount of sediment that was kicked up.<\/p>\n<p>We eventually went our own separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed a second lobster a few more minutes thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>I found it hard to propel myself; there was a strong current that went one way on the surface and another way at depth.<\/p>\n<p>I figured twenty minutes at 90 feet would be safe, so I started heading back after fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I crossed paths with another group of divers from the boat before making a slow ascent to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>I did a short twenty yard surface swim to the boat in water that was becoming extremely rough.<\/p>\n<p>I was the first one back and carefully climbed up the bouncing stairs.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the Captain why wasn&#8217;t there was a small craft advisory.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;They issued one just as we were leaving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dan and his dive buddy were thrown a current line and hauled back; they were tangled in reel line.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Dan&#8217;s buddy got disoriented and didn&#8217;t know which way was up.<\/p>\n<p>Dan grabbed the diver and started an ascent, but they got wrapped up in the line from a surface buoy they were towing.<\/p>\n<p>Bob ended up with a bug and so did a few other divers.<\/p>\n<p>I think total on this boat, out of seven divers, we caught a total of five or six just legal lobsters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/12346.jpg\" alt=\"The boat tossed in the waves, and so did a diver.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The boat tossed in the increasing swells as Dan made the decision that we needed to try someplace a lot shallower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 74 68 65 20 63 6f 61 73 74 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 52 65 64 20 42 65 61 63 68 20 6c 69 65 73 20 61 20 72 65 65 66 20 6f 66 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,8,7,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}