{"id":2074,"date":"2011-08-06T22:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T05:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2011-08-07T06:56:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T13:56:58","slug":"scuba-diving-veterans-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2074","title":{"rendered":"SCUBA Diving Veterans Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was called into work last Sunday morning and was unable to attend Sunday Services.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to dive at least once a week now that Psycho Bitch is gone, so this is my weekly dive.<\/p>\n

Veterans Park in Redondo Beach<\/p>\n

There were a lot of Divers here, most of them students.<\/p>\n

I was determined to find this so called “Monument,” also known as, “a pile of cinder blocks;” I was told to go off the stairs, dive to 50 feet and go South.<\/p>\n

Logged SCUBA Dive #386<\/p>\n

Solo Diving
\nVeterans Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n

In With: 2700 psi
\nOut With: 1100 psi
\nMax depth: 70 feet
\nWaves: Pretty flat
\nVisibility: 15 feet plus
\nWater Temperature: 59 degrees, colder at depth
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 40 minutes<\/p>\n

Entrance was easy – it was harder to avoid the students thrashing around in the surf zone than the actual waves.<\/p>\n

I descended in 20 feet of water and swam West.<\/p>\n

The canyon edge.<\/p>\n

At 40 feet, the edge of the canyon appears – you just see black as it falls to 85 feet, really quickly.<\/p>\n

Attack crabs lie in wait…<\/p>\n

Attack crab.<\/p>\n

Deadly attack crab.<\/p>\n

I didn’t find the blocks, and the visibility was pretty good.<\/p>\n

Scuba divers practice their skills.<\/p>\n

Scuba divers practice their skills.<\/p>\n

I don’t leave my camera on all the time while I dive, so I didn’t get a picture of the nurse shark that swam past me as I was coming back up the canyon.<\/p>\n

It scared the shit out of me – the shark probably was only four feet long, but water magnifies things by 25 percent, and my imagination magnifies sharks by 300 percent.<\/p>\n

Well, Veterans Park is really not a very exciting place to dive, scenery wise, so I headed in after 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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