{"id":1403,"date":"2008-09-06T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2008-09-08T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:21:41","slug":"logged-scuba-dive-301-diving-toilet-bowl-reef-redondo-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Logged SCUBA Dive #301 – Diving “Toilet Bowl Reef” Redondo Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toilet Bowl Reef, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n

Solo Diving<\/p>\n

In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 1000 psi
\nMax depth: 122 feet
\nWaves: Sort of choppy
\nVisibility: 30 feet plus
\nWater Temperature: 62 degrees on the surface, 55 at depth
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 20 minutes<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

After the class finished their deep dive at the Palawan, I had already been up for twenty minutes.<\/p>\n

We slowly made our way to the next spot, “Toilet Bowl Reef.”<\/p>\n

Toilet Bowl Reef is a spot off of Redondo Beach near the edge of the canyon; Dive N Surf dumped a bunch of toilets from a hotel that was being remodeled to form an artificial reef.<\/p>\n

The toilet bowls actually look like sea encrusted boxes.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The anchor was at 112 feet, with the chain dipping to 122 feet; I followed the line down to 122 feet and then swam up to the toilets that rest at 90 to 100 feet.<\/p>\n

\"Ohh,<\/p>\n

Ohh, Ahh, A spanish Shawl.<\/p>\n

I again had problems with my camera case fogging; few pictures came out.<\/p>\n

I checked the toilets for hiding lobsters; there weren’t any and I don’t think lobsters come here at all during the season anyway.<\/p>\n

Vis was clear enough to easily find my way back to the anchor line for the slow ascent to the surface.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/p>\n

Me at the anchor line.<\/p>\n

I surfaced as the class was descending and hung out again with Captain Dick; after all, where the hell else am I going to go?<\/p>\n

Knowing we had a limited supply of beer, I drank as many beers as I possibly could before the class emerged.<\/p>\n

About twenty minutes later, the deep diving class was back on board with a few newly certified “deep” divers.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Debriefing started immediately for the rest and continued in the parking lot afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toilet Bowl Reef, Redondo Beach, CA Solo Diving In With: 3000 psi Out With: 1000 psi Max depth: 122 feet Waves: Sort of choppy Visibility: 30 feet plus Water Temperature: 62 degrees on the surface, 55 at depth Total Bottom Time: About 20 minutes After the class finished their deep dive at the Palawan, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,16,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}