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To: Jon K. who wrote ()	11/6/1999 9:51:00 AM
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My favorite place for the Giant Spider crab is a beach dive off of Redondo Pier in Redondo Beach, CA. If you do this dive you need to bring a flashlight as a minimum (even in the day) because the pier sits on the edge of a natural submarine canyon dropping down to 1500 feet. Usually around 60-80 feet depth you enter the thermocline (black soup layer). Under that layer, its like a night dive. the spider crabs down there have a length from leg to leg of about 14 feet. If you are hungry, one diver can distract the crab and the other can go behind and rip off a leg. I've never done it, but I've known people who have. They are huge and quite scary the first time you see them. Then if you head south on the canyon at about the 80 feet level, right where the canyon makes a sharp west turn, you can often find $20 bills. just floating free... They get stuck there cause of the eddy at the bend. I have a theory where they come from but not for certain. Essentially people come to the pier, its hot and often just jump in with their clothes on. I'm guessing thats the source of the bills, but uncertain. There is also a diamond safe that fell down the canyon that was never found (when the pier burned down). So someday someone will find it and become a very wealthy person.

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