{"id":1402,"date":"2008-09-06T23:09:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T06:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2008-09-08T05:48:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:48:21","slug":"logged-dive-300-scuba-diving-the-palawan-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #300 &#8211;  SCUBA Diving The Palawan Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Palawan Wreck, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n<p>Solo Diving<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 700 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 120 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Sort of choppy<br \/>\nVisibility: 40 feet plus, but sort of dark<br \/>\nWater Temperature: 62 degrees on the surface, 53 at depth<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 22 minutes<br \/>\nNotable Event: This is my 300th dive and I am still alive.<\/p>\n<p>There were two cancellations from a deep diving class on the Island Diver;  I took one of the vacancies.<\/p>\n<p>It was the typical stag boat except for a newer member of Divevets &#8211;  &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; a blonde hot chick.<\/p>\n<p>After a short ride to the wreck, I realized that the entire boat, except for me, was part of the class.<\/p>\n<p>I made sure my spare air was filled, and was the first one overboard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0790pal09.jpg\" alt=\"Me at the anchor line\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went down the anchor line;  the anchor rested in 130 feet of water with the Palawan in sight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0792pal09.jpg\" alt=\"Lots of fish off the Palawan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize at first how good the vis was;  the Palawan is 44 feet across and I could see from one side to the other.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0801pal09.jpg\" alt=\"A ladder on the Palawan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though I put in one of those moisture absorbing packets in my camera case (aka &#8220;Do Not Eats&#8221;), I still had a slight problem with condensation forming on the lens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0793pal09.jpg\" alt=\"A ladder on the Palawan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did a tour around the ship and descended into the hull;  the top deck is off, so this was not a penetration dive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0810pal09.jpg\" alt=\"Me at 120 feet.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what I look like, sort of narced, at 120 feet; sort of too dark, I know.<\/p>\n<p>After 15 minutes at the wreck, I easily found the anchor line and started the journey back up;  stopping at 50 feet for two minutes, then four minutes at 15 feet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0817pal09.jpg\" alt=\"A tank without a diver\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During my safety stop, I saw a tank, without a diver pass by.<\/p>\n<p>I thought, &#8220;I&#8217;ve found fins and knives before, but I really scored today!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, it was safety and training equipment being lowered for the class; their dive was just starting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0819pal09.jpg\" alt=\"The Island Diver off of Redondo Beach\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hung out with Captain Dick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0820pal09.jpg\" alt=\"Diver's Bubbles\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and observed what I could of the class.<\/p>\n<p>I figured I would be the first to out-gas for the second dive and the first one finished for the day;  if all worked out, I could drink most of the beer before the class finished their second dive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palawan Wreck, Redondo Beach, CA Solo Diving In With: 3000 psi Out With: 700 psi Max depth: 120 feet Waves: Sort of choppy Visibility: 40 feet plus, but sort of dark Water Temperature: 62 degrees on the surface, 53 at depth Total Bottom Time: About 22 minutes Notable Event: This is my 300th dive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,16,23,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"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=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}