Crab pots — hard to see, hard to avoid.

There are crab pots to be encountered almost constantly from the Delaware down to the Keys.   It would be nice if they were easy to see, set up in lines, and never in the channel, but that is never the case.  It seems that the choppier the water, the darker they are in color.  Can you spot the pot in this photo?  This was crossing the Albermarle in a pretty good chop.  This guy decided to save money by cutting most of his floats in half, making them even harder to see.  Helped a catamaran to tie up at our current dock in Elizabeth City, who had to then dive on the bottom of his boat to remove two of them that wrapped around his running gear, stopping one engine.