THRILL FOR DIVERS

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume 4185, Issue 4185, 20 November 1934, Page 7

THRILL FOR DIVERS

SPORT WITH LOBSTERS Bridlington, in Yorkshire, has discovered a sport providing as many thrills as tunney fishing at Scarborough, twenty miles away. It is undersea fishing for giant lobsters in the south end of the bay. Several of the shellfish, weighing between nine and ten pounds, and measuring nearly three feet long, were lately landed by a steamer. The lobsters are caught by divers on the sea bed by a rod about five feet long and with a snare at the end. The fish are found in empty bomb cases dropped by aeroplanes. The cases are about three feet high, and in these the lobsters live like dogs in a kennel, the outside being strewn with crab shells and other debris. When the diver snares a lobster out of its kennel he signals to the boat above, a rope is lowered, and the lobster is hauled up to the boat. One diver, Jack Murphy, had to back away from a lobster advancing toward him. He caught it, though. Its claws were eight inches long. Such claws could tear a hole in a rubber diving suit, and a nip from one of the claws would sever the diver’s air pipe line as quickly as a razor.