{"id":1658,"date":"2009-09-06T23:55:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T06:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2009-09-08T07:38:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:38:53","slug":"conditions-have-been-great-all-along-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Conditions Have Been Great All Along The Coast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the delay in this post, but my 486 that I use at home is on it&#8217;s last leg of life; it&#8217;s so old I can&#8217;t even catch a virus &#8211; security by obscurity.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions have been improving a lot, so after I returned Dennis G&#8217;s knife that I found a couple weeks ago, in return for a warm 18 pack of Budweiser, I geared up and followed the group for a dive off the cove.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions seemed perfect for a dive off the Point, but for whatever reason we headed out of the Cove and to the right.<\/p>\n<p>Logged Dive #348 &#8211; Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA<\/p>\n<p>Dove With SCJoe<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3100 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 400 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 54 feet, although most of the dive was kept at 35 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Flat<br \/>\nVisibility: 15 to 20 feet, pretty bitchin&#8217;!<br \/>\nWater Temperature: About 64 degrees<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 55 minutes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0076arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"The Divevets Off Of Terranea Resort.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The entrance was the easiest I can remember &#8211; no waves to speak of at all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0078arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"A diver in kelp.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visibility was the best that I&#8217;ve seen in a long time!<\/p>\n<p>Rather than take even more pictures of the same reefs, I decided to try my hand at underwater video; it will take a while I&#8217;m sure for me to post my epic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0080arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"I followed the other divers through the kelp.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I followed the other divers through the kelp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0082arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"Vis was maybe more than 20 feet in some spots.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vis was maybe more than 20 feet in some spots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0085arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"Abundant sea life.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We must have swam half way to the Point before turning around.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0088arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"Abundant sea life.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We surfaced about 60 yards from the exit point; during the surface swim back, SCJoe noticed that he had sacrificed his light to the sea gods.<\/p>\n<p>There were some free divers around the Cove with Hawaiian Slings &#8211; one of them had shot a fish about the size of a goldfish.<\/p>\n<p>The exit was extremely easy &#8211; probably like exiting a lake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0101arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"Washing off at Terranea Resort.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I must have peed in my wet suit at least three times on this dive; I rinsed off really well before heading up to the car.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0103arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"Debriefing was quickly under way.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Debriefing was quickly under way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0104arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"SCJoe brought some Ouzu from Greece to debrief with.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SCJoe brought some Ouzu from Greece to debrief with; it&#8217;s a black licorice liquor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0106arfdive.jpg\" alt=\"We could see the scorched earth from one of the recent fires up here in Palos Verdes.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We could see the scorched earth from one of the recent fires up here in Palos Verdes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the delay in this post, but my 486 that I use at home is on it&#8217;s last leg of life; it&#8217;s so old I can&#8217;t even catch a virus &#8211; security by obscurity. Conditions have been improving a lot, so after I returned Dennis G&#8217;s knife that I found a couple weeks ago, [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"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=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}