{"id":213,"date":"2004-05-31T21:57:57","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T04:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2008-01-13T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T20:51:14","slug":"logged-dive-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #50 Ship Rock, Catalina, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ship Rock, Catalina, CA<\/p>\n<p>Boat Diving!<\/p>\n<p>Diving off the &#8220;Bottom Scratcher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dove with Nick<\/p>\n<p>Okay, finally this is my fist boat dive!<\/p>\n<p>We left Pier C in Long Beach around 6:45 AM.<\/p>\n<p>We were all given a number to reconcile who was still underwater; I was lucky number 13.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/p5310852.jpg\" alt=\"Me looking macho off of Ship Rock.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stopped at Ship Rock around 10:30 AM; that is NOT snow on those rocks.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the Dive Master Sean what &#8220;the trick&#8221; was to Ship Rock.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Watch the current and you can go deep very quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/p5310858.jpg\" alt=\"Me off of the Bottom Scratcher.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick and I entered shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>We went down to the bottom just off the back end of the boat.<\/p>\n<p>We touched bottom at about 80 feet; the anchor was at 110 feet.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote to Nick on the clip board that I wanted to touch 100 feet.<\/p>\n<p>He waited while I swam toward the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/p5310866a.jpg\" alt=\"Going down to 100 feet off of Ship Rock.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/p5310868.jpg\" alt=\"I touched 103 feet down.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I touched 103 feet and swam back up to 80.<\/p>\n<p>We made our way slowly up the embankment, observing and taking pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/p5310861a.jpg\" alt=\"Fish swarm off of Ship Rock.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/p5310876a.jpg\" alt=\"A kelp forest off of Ship Rock\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/p5310879a.jpg\" alt=\"I don\u2019t know what these are, but they look cool.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once on the surface, I signaled to the boat that we were okay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bubba&#8221; the chase boat pulled us back to the boat.<\/p>\n<p>I was cool, but the captain explained that he picked us up because of the women on board.<\/p>\n<p>In with: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut with: 600 psi<br \/>\nMaximum depth: 103 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Insignificant, 0 feet<br \/>\nVisibility: 50 feet<br \/>\nWater temperature: Cold at 103 feet, warm above 40 feet.<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 30 minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ship Rock, Catalina, CA Boat Diving! Diving off the &#8220;Bottom Scratcher.&#8221; Dove with Nick Okay, finally this is my fist boat dive! We left Pier C in Long Beach around 6:45 AM. We were all given a number to reconcile who was still underwater; I was lucky number 13. We stopped at Ship Rock around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}