{"id":1592,"date":"2009-05-31T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T05:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2009-05-31T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T05:36:05","slug":"another-pre-opening-dive-at-terranea-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Another Pre-Opening Dive At Terranea Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning was gloomy and it sprinkled on and off; but, once at Terranea Resort, it was apparent that conditions were going to be spectacular.<\/p>\n

It was low tide, the ocean was as flat as a lake and we could see submerged rocks from the cliff.<\/p>\n

Since I hate crawling over slimmy and barnacle encrusted boulders at low tide, I was planning an entrance at the cove, but when I heard a woman was going to enter the Point on her first dive here, I decided to follow the group.<\/p>\n

Logged SCUBA Dive #342<\/p>\n

Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA<\/p>\n

SoCal Buddy Diving With The Sunday Morning Divevets Crew<\/p>\n

In With: 3200 psi
\nOut With: 1000 psi
\nMax depth: 53 feet
\nWaves: As flat as a lake
\nVisibility: 15 to 20 feet
\nTemperature: 58 degrees, colder at depth
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 45 minutes<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

We all made a very careful and uneventful entry over the slimmy boulders.<\/p>\n

We swam out to try and find the statue; I told Reverend Al that I would try and follow him, but I was technically going solo, so “Don’t worry about me.”<\/p>\n

Al had two other divers that he was escorting.<\/p>\n

\"Vis<\/p>\n

Vis was pretty damn good!<\/p>\n

Ten divers were in the water, so it wasn’t too long before I became seperated from Al; I went off on my own.<\/p>\n

I could not find the statue on this dive.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An orange sea blob.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

I really need to buy an external flash; I’ve been going flashless lately to avoid the “scatter back” from internal flash photography that occurs underwater.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, under the massive kelp beds, the light was pretty dim; my camera had to take longer to expose and by that time a surge or current had moved me and the camera.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Visibility was good enough to practice some macro shots of the reef.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

This area is what makes Southern California beach diving so great!<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

I spotted another sunstar on the way back to the cove.<\/p>\n

After 45 minutes, I made an uneventful exit at the rocky cove.<\/p>\n

\"Mean<\/p>\n

Mean Bob was nice enough to DM the exit.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Professional Debriefer Paul showed up to test our new “Debriefing Limits” with Terranea Resort.<\/p>\n

\"Debriefing<\/p>\n

With a slight rain and a few “Soft Opening” guests at the resort, we drank beer and even barbecued with no hassle.<\/p>\n

This may be Diver Todd’s last dive here before moving to Florida – he’s another victim of California’s shitty economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning was gloomy and it sprinkled on and off; but, once at Terranea Resort, it was apparent that conditions were going to be spectacular. It was low tide, the ocean was as flat as a lake and we could see submerged rocks from the cliff. Since I hate crawling over slimmy and barnacle encrusted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}