{"id":3256,"date":"2014-09-14T23:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2014-09-15T06:33:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:33:42","slug":"storms-rearrange-the-terranea-resort-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"Storms Rearrange The Terranea Resort Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last several weeks, huge waves have been battering the coast from two hurricanes in Mexico. <\/p>\n

I had checked on conditions two weeks ago, and the dive at Terranea Resort was quickly cancelled.<\/p>\n

The only diving around was at Veterans Park – so, I went home.<\/p>\n

Today is another day, and the swell maps gave promise to some good diving.<\/p>\n

Nice Bob and Mike had checked out the conditions and reported, “The Point is do-able as long as you time it right.”<\/p>\n

As long as I time it right?<\/p>\n

Dennis G. asked if I would join him for a dive at the cove. <\/p>\n

I accepted.<\/p>\n

\"Rocky
\nHuge waves rearranged the rocky beach, pushing many rocks further up, and taking out the staircase.<\/em><\/p>\n

I also heard that the path to the Point was washed out.<\/p>\n

\"Sandy
\nThere is now a great sandy beach for entry and exit.<\/em><\/p>\n

We made an easy entrance and swam out.<\/p>\n

\"The
\nThe new face of the Cove.<\/em><\/p>\n

We swam to the rocky finger off of Pigeon Shit Cave and submerged.<\/p>\n

Logged SCUBA Dive #473<\/p>\n

Dove with Dennis G.<\/p>\n

The Cove off of Terranea Resort<\/p>\n

In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 750 psi
\nMax depth: 42 feet
\nWaves: Pretty flat
\nVisibility: 10 to 15 feet
\nWater Temperature: 64 degrees
\nAir Temperature: 85 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 44 minutes<\/p>\n

Visibility sort of sucked – like five feet initially, until we got to 120 reef where it opened up to 10 to 15 feet.<\/p>\n

I looked at my camera and noticed a few drops of water inside may case.<\/p>\n

Hmm, it is a little warm for condensation… fuck, my camera housing was flooding!<\/p>\n

The camera was already wet, so turning back would have been useless.<\/p>\n

We surfaced, I opened my camera case, emptied the water and resealed it; that didn’t help any.<\/p>\n

We circled around 120 reef; Dennis broke open several sea urchins to feed the fish.<\/p>\n

It’s nice to see the fish coming back – it was getting real barren a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

After 35 minutes, we started heading back.<\/p>\n

The water was pretty warm except for a strange cold blast that hit us as we were coming in; it only lasted a few moments.<\/p>\n

There was a group of people at the Cove cheering a swimmer that was approaching the beach. <\/p>\n

“You can do it! Go! Go! You can do it!,” they were cheering.<\/p>\n

A large boat followed; there was a kayaker beside the swimmer.<\/p>\n

We came to find out that the guy had swam all the way from Catalina and had been swimming for the last 11 hours.<\/p>\n

Well, if he started from Catalina and made it this far, I think he’s going to make it.<\/p>\n

He crawled up on the beach and made it to the dry rocks.<\/p>\n

And to top that off, he was 47 years old and fat – I have hope for myself now.<\/p>\n

Thank you Chipper for the following photograph:<\/p>\n

\"Todays
\nToday’s diving group – Randy is kneeling, from the left is Chipper, yours truly, Mike, Eric and Dennis G.<\/em><\/p>\n

I dried my camera on the dashboard of my truck during debriefing.<\/p>\n

A couple of people almost got into a fight over parking – I still prefer watching M.M.A. though.<\/p>\n

\"Camera<\/p>\n

At home, I washed my camera in 90% alcohol to wash the salt residue out before putting it in instant rice to leach all the moister out.<\/p>\n

The battery and memory card is still good; if my camera works again, it will be a miracle.<\/p>\n

This is the 3D camera that I have used to document my diving for the last three years – I’m sad to see the probable end to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the last several weeks, huge waves have been battering the coast from two hurricanes in Mexico. I had checked on conditions two weeks ago, and the dive at Terranea Resort was quickly cancelled. The only diving around was at Veterans Park – so, I went home. Today is another day, and the swell maps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}