<\/p>\nTrying to keep a personal promise of diving at least once a week while psycho bitch packs her stuff – at least I’m waiting for her to start packing – I made it down to the beautiful Terranea Resort for a Sunday Services dive.<\/p>\n
Small turnout for such a great day – it was just me, Reverend Al and Nice Bob; a few other divers were there, but we didn’t know them.<\/p>\n
Logged SCUBA Dive #375<\/p>\n
Off The Point At Terranea Resort
\nRancho Palos Verdes, CA
\nDove with Reverend Al and Nice Bob<\/p>\n
In With: 2800 psi
\nOut With: 400 psi
\nMax depth: 60 feet
\nWaves: Pretty mellow with a few surprises
\nVisibility: 10-15 feet
\nWater Temperature: 55 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 50 minutes<\/p>\n
My reserve second stage free flowed; I was sure it just needed to get wet, so I kept the air off until I entered the water.<\/p>\n
The tide was low, so we entered in a different spot than usual.<\/p>\n
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The spot had a big rock that kept us sheltered from the big waves – fins on, wait for a wave, and ride it out.<\/p>\n
The thought of making an entrance at The Point usually scares the shit out of me, because I have seen divers get hurt here – some divers call The Point “wounded knee.”<\/p>\n
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It worked great and none of us had issues getting out.<\/p>\n
Nice Bob turned my air on and my regulator didn’t leak.<\/p>\n
Nice Bob was going to lead the way, Reverend Al and I would follow.<\/p>\n
Since all three of us were experienced divers here, it was decided that if we separated, it would be “every man for himself” – meaning, there would be no attempt to find one another.<\/p>\n
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We looked for lobsters – not even seeing any under the rocks.<\/p>\n
I sort of followed blindly, hoping Bob knew where he was going.<\/p>\n
Visibility was sort of silty; on a great day like this I would have expected better.<\/p>\n
Lots of fish and the colorful reefs always make this an enjoyable dive…<\/p>\n
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A lingcod pets a starfish.<\/p>\n
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A starfish practices yoga.<\/p>\n
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I forgot what these are called, but they look cool.<\/p>\n
I dive with a smaller tank than the other two, plus I’m an air hog, so I surfaced about 50 minutes into the dive with 400 psi left in my tank; Reverend Al and Nice Bob continued on.<\/p>\n
I made a surface swim of about 100 yards to the rocky cove.<\/p>\n
I took my fins off too soon, but was patient enough to get pushed ashore to a perfect exit.<\/p>\n
However, I tripped over my game bag and I fell in full gear on the rocky beach; luckily, my shin cushioned the landing by getting smashed against a rock.<\/p>\n
It really didn’t hurt – probably because my years of training to become a cage fighter has rendered me immune to pain – but when I got to the parking lot, I noticed it was sort of swelling up.<\/p>\n
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That is my shin, not my knee cap.<\/p>\n
Small scale debriefing took place with the King Of Beers and the Rev’s beverage assortment, all flavored with home grown lemon.<\/p>\n
Later on, my shin really started to swell up; I’ll try ice and DMSO to bring it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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