{"id":1575,"date":"2009-04-05T23:45:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T06:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2009-04-06T04:14:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T11:14:27","slug":"sunday-services-at-malaga-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Services At Malaga Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logged SCUBA Dive #339<\/p>\n<p>Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA<\/p>\n<p>Dove With Reverend Al<\/p>\n<p>In With: 2900 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 1500 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 21 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Slight rolling waves, but pretty flat on the surface<br \/>\nVisibility: 5 to 10 feet in some spots but silty<br \/>\nTemperature: 56 degrees<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 40 minutes<\/p>\n<p>I checked out Honeymoon Cove expecting the displaced Old Marineland divers to be there, but the only one who showed up was Reverend Al.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions apparently sucked all along the hill yesterday, so maybe word had gotten out?<\/p>\n<p>Al and I checked Christmas Tree Cove;  both Honeymoon and Christmas Tree looked descent and diveable, but the question was posed, &#8220;How much work do you want to do today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both coves have long goat trails leading to the water.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the trails down and the fact that Malaga Cove has more sea life, we headed over there.<\/p>\n<p>Malaga Cove was pretty flat and you could see the submerged rocks in the shallows &#8211; it was a no brainer, &#8220;Let&#8217;s do the dive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0033mc09.jpg\" alt=\"Reverend Al off of Malaga Cove.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After an uneventful entrance and surface swim, Reverend Al and I submerged in 15 feet of water.<\/p>\n<p>We headed towards Flat Rock before turning around to head back for a beach exit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0038mc09.jpg\" alt=\"A deadly horn shark off of Malaga Cove.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A deadly horn shark off of Malaga Cove.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0040mc09.jpg\" alt=\"Reverend Al collects a perfect rock for his aquarium.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reverend Al collected a perfect rock for his aquarium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0042mc09.jpg\" alt=\"The specimen is bagged and tagged.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The specimen is bagged and tagged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0050mc09.jpg\" alt=\"There were some patches of decent visibility today.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were some patches of decent visibility today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0052mc09.jpg\" alt=\"A horn shark patrols Malaga Cove.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A horn shark patrols Malaga Cove.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0055mc09.jpg\" alt=\"The sunlight and the shallow depths made for an OK dive, despite the silt in the water.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sunlight and the shallow depths made for an OK dive, despite the silt in the water.<\/p>\n<p>As we got closer to the sandy beach, the visibility went down to only a few feet and the surge was tremendously annoying.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/PICT0059mc09.jpg\" alt=\"We ascended right by a fishing boat and made a surface swim to the beach to avoid the underwater surge.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We ascended right by a fishing boat and made a surface swim to the beach to avoid the underwater surge.<\/p>\n<p>We finally met FrankPro1 and SPKelpDiver from the Divevets&#8217; board; they were heading in, as we were coming out.<\/p>\n<p>Not So New Chris had finished his dive and was in the parking lot; he remarked, &#8220;Those horn sharks must have an awfully good night life because all of them were sleeping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Low key debriefing ensued for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I have my diving fill in for the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logged SCUBA Dive #339 Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA Dove With Reverend Al In With: 2900 psi Out With: 1500 psi Max depth: 21 feet Waves: Slight rolling waves, but pretty flat on the surface Visibility: 5 to 10 feet in some spots but silty Temperature: 56 degrees Total Bottom Time: About 40 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"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=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}