Just last Saturday October 18th we held our 14th annual URT LOB OFF at Garbage Beach in Point Loma. This is our yearly freedive lobster grab competition in Point Loma’s reef structures to kick off the lobster season. Divers had an hour and a half to catch as many legal bugs as possible. Lobsters were then taken to the weighing table to see how big their bugs were.
We had sunny weather and relatively good conditions to welcome 45 divers… the most competitors in the history of the event! After the allotted time of 1 and a half hours 17 lobsters were caught by 13 people. Here were the final results:
1ST PLACE: Allan Fenton : 3 lobsters (533g, 767g, 526g, for a total 1,826g)
2ND PLACE: Mark Arthurs: 2 lobsters (772 g and 865g, for total 1,637g)
3RD PLACE: Al Hansen: 2 lobsters: (819g, and 624g, for a total 1,443g)
Elijah Rush 762g
Wylie: 724g
Ross Talnik 696g
Jad Carruthers : 655g
David Murline : 649g
William Dick : 644g
Lucas Binder 602g
Ashton Stjean 520g
Richard Cardet 469g
Ni Joy Yingqi : 435 g
GREAT JOB TO ALL OUR DIVERS!!!
Our BIG BUG award went to Mark Arthurs at 865g.
Thank you again to all our competitors for coming out this year and also to San Diego Freedivers for making an appearance at our event. What a great way to kick off the lobster season!!











