{"id":1335,"date":"2008-06-29T22:18:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T05:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2008-06-30T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:22:53","slug":"logged-dive-288-another-great-day-diving-at-the-old-marineland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Logged dive #288 – Another great Day Diving At The Old Marineland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Point (aka The Old Marineland), Palos Verdes, California<\/p>\n

Solo Diving, So Cal Buddy Diving<\/p>\n

In With: 2200 psi
\nOut With: 700 psi
\nMax depth: About 50 feet
\nWaves: Small swells, but with a few predictable surprises
\nVisibility: 20-25 feet
\nWater Temperature: 64 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 35 minutes<\/p>\n

I arrived at Long Point about 30 minutes late; I was able to park in the last remaining illegal spot in the tiny lot.<\/p>\n

The parking lot was jammed with divers – regulars and new comers.<\/p>\n

Reverend Al said that he was going to try The Point; I didn’t check conditions for myself, but nobody was holding beers in their hands, so I geared up and followed Reverend Al and his group to the boulder entrance.<\/p>\n

\"It's<\/p>\n

\"WARNING:<\/p>\n

WARNING: Boulder entries are potentially dangerous and should be reserved exclusively for macho divers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Others<\/p>\n

I made it out with no problem.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/p>\n

We waited for everyone else to make it out.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

I looked underwater to preview the visibility…<\/p>\n

\"Vis<\/p>\n

…it looked spectacular!<\/p>\n

I had used my tank previously to clean my regulator, so I went diving with a short filled tank.<\/p>\n

I told reverend Al that I was going to follow the group to the Pinnacle, and then take off on my own after five minutes.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

We descended; I had a hard time equalizing, but managed to follow the group down with the great visibility.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Pinnacle – Underwater architecture at its best.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

I hung out around the Pinnacle for maybe 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Divers<\/p>\n

\"Fish<\/p>\n

There were a lot of fish here!<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A diver at Long Point with a deco bottle?<\/p>\n

He later told us, he wants to practice carrying it.<\/p>\n

If he needs practice carrying gear back up the hill, he can carry mine!<\/p>\n

I broke away from the group and started towards the cove for an exit.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

There was some weird kind of nudibrach that I had never seen before – it looked like a bleached Spanish Shawl.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Another Sun Star!<\/p>\n

Just think, two years ago, I had never seen one; now they’re all over the place!<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An abundance of kelp is returning to Long Point.<\/p>\n

I was running low on air and did a surface swim of about 100 yards to the cove.<\/p>\n

I used about 200 psi of air looking for a lost fin from last week – no luck.<\/p>\n

\"Exiting<\/p>\n

Juan Twenty was nice enough to be the unofficial Dive Master upon exit, while Cyber the attack dog kept watch.<\/p>\n

\"Diver<\/p>\n

After another macho walk up the switchback trail, the divers heavily debriefed with an assortment of domestic and imported beers.<\/p>\n

Another perfect day of diving at the Old Marineland!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long Point (aka The Old Marineland), Palos Verdes, California Solo Diving, So Cal Buddy Diving In With: 2200 psi Out With: 700 psi Max depth: About 50 feet Waves: Small swells, but with a few predictable surprises Visibility: 20-25 feet Water Temperature: 64 degrees Total Bottom Time: About 35 minutes I arrived at Long Point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}