{"id":942,"date":"2008-01-23T23:30:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T06:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2008-01-25T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T01:11:19","slug":"logged-dive-273-we-tried-the-shallows-for-lobster-off-the-island-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #273 &#8211; We tried the shallows for Lobster off the Island Diver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 52 65 64 20 42 65 61 63 68 20 62 72 65 61 6b 20 77 61 74 65 72 20 74 68 65 72 65 20 69 73 20 61 20 73 68 61 6c 6c 6f 77 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 61 20 77 61 72 6d 20 72 65 73 74 61 75 72 61 6e 74 20 65 78 68 61 75 73 74 20 70 69 70 65 20 73 75 70 70 6f 73 65 64 6c 79 20 65 6d 69 74 73 2e<\/p>\n<p>Off the Island Diver Boat<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 1200 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: About 35 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Very choppy, boat was dragging anchor<br \/>\nVisibility: 15 feet or worse<br \/>\nWater Temperature: Cold!<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 40 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Solo Diving<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/12347.jpg\" alt=\"The boat rocks as we gear up to try the shallows.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We anchored about 200 yards off a rocky shoreline in about 35 feet of water.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was, since the depths have been crappy lately for lobsters, that they must be moving shallower.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s suppose to be some sort of pipe in this site.<\/p>\n<p>I was the first one over board;  Dan commented to the other divers, &#8220;He&#8217;s jumping off first to get all the lobsters &#8211; what a fag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I went down the anchor and attached the strobe for the other divers.<\/p>\n<p>I trolled over endless stretches of pure, white sand.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, except for a few guitar fish and a Pacific Electric Ray, that&#8217;s all I saw &#8211; sand!<\/p>\n<p>I got as shallow as 15 feet, then went back out and ran across some sort of concrete flat.<\/p>\n<p>I swam back towards the boat over the barren landscape and was going to head back in after twenty minutes until I spotted a short lobster.<\/p>\n<p>I had hope, so I followed a sparse trail of small fish, a few crabs and two more shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Then&#8230; still nothing.<\/p>\n<p>After 40 minutes, I thought a beer sounded better so I headed in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But where the hell was the boat?<\/p>\n<p>I had peaked a few times during my dive, and with the swells, it was really hard to go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The boat kept getting farther and farther away;  it was dragging anchor and had moved about 200 feet towards the rocky shore.<\/p>\n<p>I swam under water back to the boat;  the others who did a second dive soon followed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/12345.jpg\" alt=\"I pose with my catch for the night - two lobsters from the last dive.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I pose with my catch for the night &#8211; two lobsters from the last dive.<\/p>\n<p>No lobsters here and we all agreed &#8211; this place sucks!<\/p>\n<p>Debriefing took place in the parking lot as usual but only lasted until midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Location: 4f 66 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 52 65 64 20 42 65 61 63 68 20 62 72 65 61 6b 20 77 61 74 65 72 20 74 68 65 72 65 20 69 73 20 61 20 73 68 61 6c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,7,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}