Cute Lobster Hunter

Ron Scubadiver · Mar 5, 2011

This South African girl is a scuba diving instructor. She speared the lobster on a breath holding or free dive with a simple spear. A simple spear is a sharp stick with a big rubber band on one end. I got to eat part of this lobster a few nights ago. The image is not tack sharp because the boat was rocking.

jadlh · Mar 9, 2011

I'd say edible! Love the accent too.

56 Chevy · Mar 9, 2011

Nice shot

Ron Scubadiver · Mar 9, 2011

Thank you jadlh, CBags04 and Art. They caught a bunch of these big lobsters and they wound up in a pot on the last day of the trip.

sprdv1 · Mar 20, 2011

Still a great pic, and cute too

Ron Scubadiver · Mar 20, 2011

Thank you sprdv1.

raygun · Mar 20, 2011

Huge lobster! Must be close to 6 or 7 pounds? What I notice is that there are no claws like the New England species. The tail is full of meat though, as you well know!

Ron Scubadiver · Mar 20, 2011

Thank you raygun. Probably more like 3.5 lbs. This is a spiny lobster. It is a warm water species that lacks claws. Only cold water lobsters have claws. There is a difference in how they taste, with the cold water lobsters being more sought after. Whenever one orders steak and lobster and receives only a lobster tail, that is a warm water lobster tail.

Remember, she killed this thing the hard way.

paulkerlin · Mar 20, 2011

Great Pic and nice lobster. The hard way to kill it, would be to grab it with your
hands and avoid all the spines along the sides of tail ... been there .. done that ... it hurts ..

Ron Scubadiver · Mar 21, 2011

Paul, that would be hard, but only if it was on a breath hold dive. I did a night dive with this dive instructor from Belize. He grabbed a big lobster that way. We did not have a bag, and were not supposed to be hunting anyway. It wiggled away and went about 15 feet on a single kick of it's tail.

aesop · Mar 21, 2011

YUMMY, As lobster eating lover - you make me very jealous!

olshroom · Mar 21, 2011

That is one juicy looking big bug. Bring on the garlic butter and french bread.

Ron Scubadiver · Mar 21, 2011

Thank you aesop and Jim. Someone once told me they saw a lobster walking on the bottom with a cup of melted butter under one of it's arms. A bit fanciful, don't you think.

jadlh · Mar 28, 2011

Your shot reminds me of one I took of my wife more than a couple of years ago:

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Ron Scubadiver · Mar 28, 2011

jadh, that looks like one of those really wonderful days we divers have out on the water.