Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA

Dove with Instructor John and his Open Water students Franklin and Eleanor.*

In With: 3000 psi
Out With: 2000 psi
Max depth: 50 feet
Waves: 1-4 feet
Visibility: 5-10 feet, getting clearer
Water Temperature: About 60 degrees Fahrenheit and getting warmer.
Total Bottom Time: 24 minutes
*Note: Student names have been changed.*

Franklin kept floating up; he had a tough time equalizing.

Eleanor made it to the bottom at 20 feet; I followed her.

Franklin was still having problems for a while but eventually we all made it.

John lead, the couple followed, and often held hands.

Talk about buddy diving!

I took up the rear.

Franklin stopped at the lip of the shelf… he was still having problems equalizing.

Eleanor of course stopped and waited; John had to swim back and find us.

Was this a boring dive?

Not really.

I would rather look at students diving than look at nothing – nothing is often what is seen here off of Redondo.

There is a really hot diving instructor that I saw; maybe she’s from Sea D Sea?

Visibility was better on this dive than on my earlier two.

I was first on shore and helped the couple onto the sand; they were exhausted.

Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA

This was a “fun dive” with Instructor John and his Open Water students Stan The Macho Man and Tuasopo.*

In With: 2400 psi
Out With: 1000 psi
Max depth: 60 feet
Waves: 1-4 feet
Visibility: 5-8 feet
Water Temperature: About 55 degrees Fahrenheit
Total Bottom Time: 30 minutes or so.
*Note: Student names have been changed.*

This is the students’ last dive before certification.

Not much to this dive.

We followed John down the shelf to about 60 feet; we then headed back.

Stan the Macho Man strayed away from the group a few times.

“Stan” is the typical wanna-be “macho” SCUBA diver.

During the whole course he kept bragging to the group about his death defying feats including sky diving – something that he apparently did only once.

We came ashore with no problems; Franklin and Eleanor had been resting during our dive.