{"id":1368,"date":"2008-07-27T23:30:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2008-07-29T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T01:01:17","slug":"logged-scuba-dive-294-scuba-diving-the-palawan-wreck-redondo-beach-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Logged SCUBA Dive #294:  SCUBA Diving the Palawan Wreck, Redondo Beach, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Palawan Wreck, Redondo Beach<\/p>\n<p>Diving With Mike C. from the Divevets.<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 1100 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 120 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Pretty damn calm<br \/>\nVisibility: 30 to 50 feet, spectacular!<br \/>\nWater Temperature: Sort of cold at depth<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 25 minutes<\/p>\n<p>To stay in practice and make sure I still know how to boat dive, I signed up on the Island Diver for a half day of wreck diving.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the depth and current at the Palawan, the boat was limited to the people with Advanced Certification whom the Divemasters knew.<\/p>\n<p>I got a good laugh when someone pointed out a liability release form who listed the relationship of the diver&#8217;s emergency contact as &#8220;bitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My dive computer was still set to metric measurements.<\/p>\n<p>I told Dan, &#8220;So I shouldn&#8217;t go any deeper than 130 meters?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dan looked at it and was able to figure out how to change my dive computer to feet and Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>Who the hell thinks in metric anyway?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0494pwav.jpg\" alt=\"Think gas is expensive on land?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Think gas is expensive on land?<\/p>\n<p>But look, you get a 20 cent discount if you buy $4100 worth of diesel fuel!<\/p>\n<p>There were no chicks on this boat as very few women are macho enough to do such a deep cold water dive.<\/p>\n<p>I buddied up with Mike C. who had dove this wreck before.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0497pwav.jpg\" alt=\"Self portrait off the back of the Island Diver.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A self portrait off the back of the Island Diver.<\/p>\n<p>Down the anchor line, we saw practically the entire ship at a depth of 70 feet; the visibility was spectacular and there was no current at that depth.<\/p>\n<p>I started taking pictures of the ship and other divers when I noticed they were all fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0504pwav.jpg\" alt=\"My camera had fogged up!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The air temperature was almost 80 degrees and humid and when I descended to that depth and 62 degree water temperature, my camera had fogged up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuck!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We headed to the bow; Mike even penetrated the hull a little ways.<\/p>\n<p>The visibility and scenery was spectacular, but unfortunately, my camera was rendered useless due to the condensation.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, thanks to the buddy system, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/mikecarlson1\/iWeb\/Palawan%207_27_08\/Palawan.html\" target=\"_new\">see Mike&#8217;s pictures of the dive here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent a total of 12 minutes at 120 feet before heading to the anchor line for a slow ascent to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>I spent three minutes at 50 feet and five minutes at 15 feet to out gas.<\/p>\n<p>A great dive!<\/p>\n<p>Captain Dick asked us where the anchor landed.<\/p>\n<p>Someone said, &#8220;You did a great job, the anchor landed right inside the wreck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inside the wreck?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0511pwav.jpg\" alt=\"The anchor is stuck.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is probably the reason that the anchor got stuck.<\/p>\n<p>So now, the joke was, &#8220;Dick can&#8217;t get it up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0509pwav.jpg\" alt=\"Dan and Bob geared up to go down and free the anchor.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dan and Bob geared up to go down and free the anchor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0510pwav.jpg\" alt=\"Within 10 minutes, the anchor was freed.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Within 10 minutes, the anchor was freed and we were on our way to the Avalon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palawan Wreck, Redondo Beach Diving With Mike C. from the Divevets. In With: 3000 psi Out With: 1100 psi Max depth: 120 feet Waves: Pretty damn calm Visibility: 30 to 50 feet, spectacular! Water Temperature: Sort of cold at depth Total Bottom Time: About 25 minutes To stay in practice and make sure I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368"}],"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=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}