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<\/p>\nVeteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
Dove With Angelshark<\/p>\n
In With: 2900 psi
\nOut With: 700 psi
\nMax depth: 85 feet
\nWaves: Mild swells
\nVisibility: 20 feet
\nWater Temperature: Comfortably cool, but chilly at depth
\nTotal Bottom Time: 45 minutes<\/p>\n
This was some sort of unofficial bay “clean up dive” where divers bring ashore a bag of trash and then party in the park to celebrate.<\/p>\n
I took Angelshark up on the offer to buddy up with her; we met in the crowded Vet’s Park parking lot a little after 7:40 AM.<\/p>\n
She and other chick divers admired the Duster; it’s hard not to.<\/p>\n
This was Angelshark’s first ocean dive in a dry suit – that sort of made me nervous, as I have no experience with them.<\/p>\n
She briefly explained how they work; it’s just like operating a BC jacket, except the suit is one big air jacket.<\/p>\n
Angelshark has been diving for three years and has over 600 logged dives!<\/p>\n
“I go diving four times a week, sometimes two or three times a day,” she said.<\/p>\n
We walked out, put our fins on and swam about 50 yards out before submerging.<\/p>\n
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Me and Angelshark prepare to submerge.<\/p>\n
We descended in 25 feet of water; I followed her over the shelf.<\/p>\n
I wasn’t sure where we were headed, just down to pick up trash.<\/p>\n
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I kept accidentally bumping into her, not knowing where exactly we were going.<\/p>\n
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We picked up trash at 85 feet, I was getting a little narced.<\/p>\n
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A crab hides in a fox hole.<\/p>\n
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We went up the shelf; this is what Angelshark looks like underwater.<\/p>\n
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There’s still plenty of trash above the shelf.<\/p>\n
I followed her back down the shelf to 80 feet.<\/p>\n
We both had 80 cubic feet tanks, but she has smaller lungs.<\/p>\n
I pointed out that I had 1200 psi and we were at 80 feet; I started heading in and she followed.<\/p>\n
Up the shelf and after a nice slow swim and safety stop in, we were in shallow water.<\/p>\n
Angelshark took a fin off before she could touch bottom.<\/p>\n
“I take one fin off first so I can just worry about the other one when I can feel the bottom,” she said.<\/p>\n
I tried that approach and did not like the lack of control while being in the surf zone.<\/p>\n
I again, as always, tripped over the one foot sand step.<\/p>\n
Angelshark helped me up and on my next step tripped over my trash bag.<\/p>\n
A non-macho exit in front of a hot chick is hard to live down.<\/p>\n
Angelshark accidentally caught an octopus, which crawled out of a piece of trash; she had to argue with a Korean woman about why she was “throwing food” back into the ocean.<\/p>\n
“It was so small, why would she want to eat it?” Angelshark asked.<\/p>\n
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My bag of trash; Vet’s Park is a lot cleaner now than in previous years.<\/p>\n
Wrinkles from the Old Marineland site greeted me; I had brain fade because I didn’t place the face outside of that spot.<\/p>\n
I apologized and said that I must be getting Alzheimer’s.<\/p>\n
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