Lobster claws - what for?

[southlonder]

Originally Posted by Marineboy

Although I regularly see lobsters during dives I don't take any home for the pot. This was one I bought from a commercial fisherman in Mousehole in Cornwall. I had it in a large tank in the living room, with sea water cooled using a beer cooler. Favourite food - squid.
It had been destined for a pot of boiling water, but after several molts it started getting too big and I had to let it go, so I took it to Brixham in Devon. Much to the amusement of holiday makers I marched down a busy beach at the breakwater in full scuba gear with a big lobster in a clear plastic bag, acclimatised it very slowly amidst comments of a culinary nature, and took it for a dive. Four years after saving it from a pot of boiling water, it was great to find it a suitably deep crevice to let it go.

Sounds an interesting experience - you should write it up for a journal or something.

[Marineboy]

Usually I might question whether a thread on good dive sites might be useful in this forum, but having dived with divers who want to do the scuba equivalent of the 4 minute mile, it might have a valid place amongst some of us here. There are numerous diver forums on line but I can't imagine many would give much thought to diving a rockpool! I will dig out my dive log book and post some of my memorable UK sites.

[Billabong Karen]

Thanks - I'd be really interested, not from a technical diving point of view, but from what can be seen where - no matter how small!

[STYRBJORN]

One of the quarries in Swithland in Leicestershire is 400feet deep. Just thought I'd mention it.