{"id":1591,"date":"2009-05-30T23:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T06:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2009-05-31T06:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:45:40","slug":"the-scuba-show-at-the-long-beach-convention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"The SCUBA Show At The Long Beach Convention Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s once again time to check out the annual SCUBA Show at the Long Beach Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to stay away from the lectures this year unlike last year, as I did not find them too interesting for a destitute, local beach diver who can&#8217;t afford to travel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0103scubashow2.jpg\" alt=\"The Scuba Show.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The SCUBA Show banner is green &#8211; probably to resemble the crappy conditions here lately.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0114scubashow2.jpg\" alt=\"Lots of floor space.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was pretty easy to get lost &#8211; lots of displays.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0106scubashow2.jpg\" alt=\"California Wreck Divers.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cawreckdivers.org\/\">The California Wreck Divers<\/a> had a booth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0105scubashow2.jpg\" alt=\"A little display from the Newbern wreck off of Old Marineland.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little display from the Newbern wreck that&#8217;s off of Old Marineland<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0110scubashow2.jpg\" alt=\"An Ocean themed art gallery.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An impressive ocean themed art gallery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0111scubashow2.jpg\" alt=\"The SCUBA theater.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The SCUBA theater.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0112scubashow2.jpg\" alt=\"A little native flavor adds to a travel display.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little native flavor adds to a travel display.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/Pict0117scubashow2.jpg\" alt=\"A new feature in dive safety - a LED lighted Diver Down flag.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new feature in dive safety &#8211; a LED lighted Diver Down flag.<\/p>\n<p>Dive equipment, dive travel packages, SCUBA charities and various other odd booths, like beef jerky and hand lotion, covered the enormous convention floor.<\/p>\n<p>I saw many of my old and new diving friends, so beyond the $12 entrance fee, $10 parking and $7 beers I would say it was worth it to kill a few hours here again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s once again time to check out the annual SCUBA Show at the Long Beach Convention Center. I decided to stay away from the lectures this year unlike last year, as I did not find them too interesting for a destitute, local beach diver who can&#8217;t afford to travel. The SCUBA Show banner is green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}