{"id":155,"date":"2004-04-09T23:43:02","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/dev\/?p=155"},"modified":"2007-12-29T21:07:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T04:07:33","slug":"logged-dive-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #37 Veteran’s Park, CA – Night Diving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran’s Park
\nRedondo Beach, CA
\nNight Diving<\/p>\n

Notable Event: First Night dive, narced, confused and didn’t realize that my buddy was on the brink of panic.<\/p>\n

Dove With Nick<\/p>\n

I had the urge to go night diving.<\/p>\n

There was a group going night diving last Wednesday, but today is payday and I couldn’t buy a flood light until now.<\/p>\n

I met Nick and Instructor Ed at Veteran’s park at 7:20 PM.<\/p>\n

Ed was concerned about the wind.<\/p>\n

Two divers coming up the stairs rated the environment as “visibility is good but it’s really dark.”<\/p>\n

We suited up and entered the water probably around 8:30 PM.<\/p>\n

\"Ed<\/p>\n

Some onlookers watched us enter with bewilderment.<\/p>\n

The waves were up, about four feet, but the swells were really big once out.<\/p>\n

I had my new light cannon, Nick had my flashlight; Ed had his own light.<\/p>\n

Once out, Ed had problems with his BCD jacket — it kept inflating uncontrollably — and had to turn back.<\/p>\n

\"There\u2019s<\/p>\n

There’s me, sort of exhausted from making it out.<\/p>\n

\"Nick<\/p>\n

Nick and I rested a bit, riding the swells — which bothered Nick.<\/p>\n

We submerged and descended to an initial 26 feet.<\/p>\n

We stayed side by side; Nick gave my the “OK” sign.<\/p>\n

We followed the floor — visibility was 10 feet and really<\/strong> dark.
\n\"A
\nWe saw small horn sharks, local crab and a fish I had never seen before.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

I think this is a rock fish.<\/p>\n

\"We<\/p>\n

We went over the shelf and in to the canyon.<\/p>\n

It got really cold.<\/p>\n

The visibility didn’t improve.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Is Nick frightened or nervous here? I think he would signal if he was?<\/p>\n

It got to the point where the only thing I could see was sediment that was floating in the water.<\/p>\n

This freaked Nick out and he gave me the predesignated “I’m scared let’s go up” sign.<\/p>\n

I looked at my compass and started going West.<\/p>\n

I felt my ears pinch, looked at my gauge — we were at 75 feet and going the wrong way.<\/p>\n

I made this mistake before — and was pissed at myself.<\/p>\n

Nick gave me the “up” sign. I acknowledged.<\/p>\n

I swam up to surface, but Nick didn’t go anywhere.<\/p>\n

I was starting to get concerned about Nick panicking.<\/p>\n

He signaled to ask which way was shore. I looked at my compass and took a while to get my bearings — which further frightened Nick.<\/p>\n

I pointed in the direction of shore, he swam, got to the shelf and darted up.<\/p>\n

I followed, but became extremely dizzy — I had to slow down.<\/p>\n

In warmer water at 30 feet, Nick calmed down.<\/p>\n

We swam toward shore; Nick finally signalled to “go up.”<\/p>\n

We ascended.<\/p>\n

The first thing Nick said to me was “I didn’t like that, let’s go in.”<\/p>\n

We made it to shore without incident.<\/p>\n

Nick swam in really<\/strong> fast.<\/p>\n

Nick later told me that he wasn’t upset at me, but at himself.<\/p>\n

He just wasn’t ready for a dive like that.<\/p>\n

I should have detected his concern earlier — I have doubts that I could ever be an instructor.<\/p>\n

I think I really<\/strong> like solo diving.<\/p>\n

In with: 2800 psi
\nOut with: 1400 psi
\nMax depth: 75 feet
\nWaves: Four feet (big swells)
\nVisibility: 10 feet\/soupy
\nWater temperature: Cold at depths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veteran’s Park Redondo Beach, CA Night Diving Notable Event: First Night dive, narced, confused and didn’t realize that my buddy was on the brink of panic. Dove With Nick I had the urge to go night diving. There was a group going night diving last Wednesday, but today is payday and I couldn’t buy a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,16,7,23,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}