{"id":1116,"date":"2008-02-28T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2008-02-28T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T02:23:15","slug":"the-swells-are-high-so-ive-decided-to-just-stay-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"The Swells Are High, So I&#8217;ve Decided To Just Stay Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days have produced nothing more than high surf advisories to the point where piers were closed and warnings were posted for both fishermen and surfers.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of fishermen were swept off some rocks earlier this week and presumably drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday&#8217;s <em>Press Telegram<\/em> had a front page photo of someone riding a huge wave\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/surfupdude.gif\" title=\"Surf\u2019s Up! Cowa Bunga Dude!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/surfupdude.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"Surf\u2019s Up! Cowa Bunga Dude!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s High Surf Advisory was probably great news to the local surfers.<\/p>\n<p>312 AM PST TUE FEB 26 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS<br \/>\nMORNING&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MEANS THAT HIGH SURF WILL AFFECT BEACHES IN THE<br \/>\nADVISORY AREA&#8230;PRODUCING POWERFUL RIP CURRENTS AND BEACH EROSION.<br \/>\nSWIMMING OR SURFING IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR ANYONE DURING THIS HIGH<br \/>\nSURF EVENT. IT IS DANGEROUS TO FISH OR OBSERVE WAVES FROM EXPOSED<br \/>\nCOASTAL STRUCTURES&#8230;ROCKS OR JETTIES DURING HIGH SURF. VERY LARGE<br \/>\nWAVES CAN SUDDENLY SWEEP ACROSS PREVIOUSLY DRY AREAS AND PULL<br \/>\nONLOOKERS INTO THE OCEAN.<\/p>\n<p>The swells looked like they were calming down somewhat yesterday, but thinking that the vis still sucked I declined Instructor John&#8217;s invitation to do a lobster dive off of his zodiac.<\/p>\n<p>On the Divevets&#8217; message board, the conditions at Veteran&#8217;s Park last night were reported as &#8220;Surf 1-3 footers, viz about 5-7 feet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s another week staying dry.<\/p>\n<p>John and I might try a lobster dive Saturday night, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy Ron T. sent me the following funny cartoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/funny1.jpeg\" alt=\"Did you name the boat after me like you said you would?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you know the original source, please post so they can get credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days have produced nothing more than high surf advisories to the point where piers were closed and warnings were posted for both fishermen and surfers. A couple of fishermen were swept off some rocks earlier this week and presumably drowned. Last Tuesday&#8217;s Press Telegram had a front page photo of someone riding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}