We got our diving pictures back from our trip to St Croix, USVI. You can find them all of them posted here, but below is a handy selection, as well as my overdue self-portrait. I had forgotten to turn on the camera before I put it in its underwater case for our night dive, so Kelly was not able to get a shot of me collecting this fine specimen for dinner at 75 feet down. The diving we did was our best ever. The north side of St Croix drops off suddenly to 13,000 feet deep, and we dove this wall 3 times, once at night. The dropoff continues to over 28,000 feet in the Puerto Rican Trench, which is the deepest part of the Atlantic.
I love the progression of the lobster's last few moments from being in a (slightly terrifying) self-portrait to being in a pot. It's a powerful, emotional story. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteI really like the pot shot. The antennae and tail sticking out of the pot... priceless. How'd he taste? Was it worth the effort? Do you recommend that if we should come upon one of these critters, we should eat it?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, catch and eat one. They are just like Maine lobster, without the claws. In the USVI, as long as you are a US citizen, you take take any lobster that doesn't have eggs (under the tail). The lobster snare was key.
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