{"id":1797,"date":"2010-01-17T23:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T06:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2010-01-18T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:19:21","slug":"terranea-resort-dive-condition-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Terranea Resort Dive Condition Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is suppose to be three storm fronts moving in, which probably accounted for the light diver turnout at Terranea Resort.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0031jan172010.jpg\" alt=\"The Cove at Terranea Resort.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The water looked a little green and the surf zone had three to four foot swells between the calms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s rough but doable,&#8221; I was told.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than prove that I can make it in and make it out alive, and hopefully not hurt, for a dive that was sure to be low vis, I decided to start debriefing early.<\/p>\n<p>Seven divers, in three teams made it out of The Cove.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0014jan172010.jpg\" alt=\"Instructor Ed and Crazy Ivan enjoy a red cup beverage at the Cove.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instructor Ed and Crazy Ivan joined me at the Cove for a red cup breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0022jan172010.jpg\" alt=\"The first divers emerged, reporting seven to ten feet of visibility.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first divers emerged, reporting seven to ten feet of visibility.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of free divers entered during our debriefing period.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0027jan172010.jpg\" alt=\"The tourists felt safe, since I wore my German Police shirt.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tourists felt safe, since I wore my German Police shirt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0023jan172010.jpg\" alt=\"The second group emerged from SCUBA diving.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second group emerged from SCUBA diving &#8211; &#8220;You didn&#8217;t miss much, I would say five to seven feet at best..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0033jan172010.jpg\" alt=\"Debriefing was light.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a skeleton debriefing crew &#8211; Crazy Ivan, Instructor Ed, TwinDuct, Eric and me.<\/p>\n<p>We broke out the ghetto grill to cook some spicy sausages, but nobody had any matches.<\/p>\n<p>After 20 minutes of trying to flame tissue paper with a car lighter and rubbing two sticks together, it looked like we were going to go hungry.<\/p>\n<p>I dug down to the third layer of treasures in the Duster&#8217;s trunk, and found a book with four matches still in it.<\/p>\n<p>I split them in half giving us eight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0032jan172010.jpg\" alt=\"We barbecued at a secret, undisclosed location.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We barbecued at a secret, undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p>Debriefing wrapped up a little afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Instructor Ed suggested that we go to the best and friendliest bar in San Pedro &#8211; Rebel&#8217;s Cocktails.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0036jan172010.jpg\" alt=\"Instructor Ed tells Eric and TwinDuct how fat I was before he taught me to SCUBA dive.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instructor Ed tells Eric and TwinDuct how fat I was before he taught me to dive and made them both promise to never quit SCUBA diving.<\/p>\n<p>It is suppose to be stormy all this week &#8211; massive rain, thunder and lightning.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound like I will be getting in much lobster hunting in this month, but I hope to hit the end of the season hard.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, after all these storms, where are the lobsters going to be?<\/p>\n<p>Deeper, I know, but how deep?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is suppose to be three storm fronts moving in, which probably accounted for the light diver turnout at Terranea Resort. The water looked a little green and the surf zone had three to four foot swells between the calms. &#8220;It&#8217;s rough but doable,&#8221; I was told. Rather than prove that I can make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,19,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}