Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA

Dove with Instructor John, his friend Jim and John’s Harbor Police Open Water students as part of my Dive Master training.

In With: 1800 psi
Out With: 1100 psi
Max depth: 20 feet
Waves: 4-6 feet
Visibility: 3-10 feet
Water Temperature: 65 degrees Fahrenheit
Total Bottom Time: 10-15 minutes

I really don’t know if I should count this as a dive, but obviously I am.

John gave the students the option to cancel this dive.

One of the Police students had a tooth problem and called it quits; John turned back another student.

When we were ready to continue from our meeting spot once submerged, John gave me one of his students to take in – he was running out of air – he was breathing hard and his backup second stage started free flowing upon entry.

The student kept floating up – probably because of apprehension.

We all made it back in with no problem.

Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA

Dove with Instructor John, his friend Jim, John’s Harbor Police Open Water students and two other certified Harbor Police Officers as part of my Dive Master training.

In With: 2700 psi
Out With: 1800 psi
Max depth: 30 feet
Waves: 4-6 feet
Visibility: 3-10 feet
Water Temperature: 55 – 65 degrees Fahrenheit
Total Bottom Time: 21 minutes

John gives the dive briefing to his Harbor Police Students.

I don’t know any of the students names, so I won’t even bother giving fake names.

We did the initial Open Water “skin dive” that was pretty challenging.

The waves were really big, four to six feet.

The Officers didn’t have snorkels because they don’t use them.

One Officer couldn’t breathe well and was going to cancel until John had him remove his hood.

Jim and I submerged first followed by a chick and three guys; John had a hard time getting another student down.

After six minutes or so, John and the remaining student made it down.

We all went towards the shelf, but a student signaled to me that he was getting really cold.

I let John know before we went over the shelf.

We turned back and all went in.

The two regular Harbor Police Officers who were diving with us had intercoms and were talking to each other; the two later said how wonderful the visibility was.

The thing is, as crappy as it was, they weren’t joking coming from the crap that they dive in.