<\/p>\nHere again is my once a year opportunity to dive underneath the Redondo Beach Pier and collect what people have dropped over the side for the last 12 months.<\/p>\n
For a few hours, they prohibit fishing off the pier and let SCUBA divers clean the “garbage” underneath.<\/p>\n
I arrived a little late, so my dive buddy TwinDuct and I were one of the last divers to enter the water and head for the pier.<\/p>\n
Upon entry, a wave knocked me flat on my ass, and to make things worse, I couldn’t get up – a wave would hit me, and I would try and get up, or at least try and float out to waist level water, but I ended up flailing in the surf zone until TwinDuct and my arch Divevets rival Airborne helped me to my feet.<\/p>\n
Thank God there were no witnesses or pictures, as I did not look very macho.<\/p>\n
We swam out and headed for the pier.<\/p>\n
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We descended and went towards the pier.<\/p>\n
Logged SCUBA Dive #389<\/p>\n
Dove with TwinDuct
\nOff of and Under Redondo Pier, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
In With: 2800 psi
\nOut With: 800 psi
\nMax depth: 70 feet
\nWaves: Big in the surf zone, calm once out
\nVisibility: 15 feet at best
\nWater Temperature: 62 degrees, colder at depth
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 40 minutes<\/p>\n
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We passed over a community of sand dollars; I’ve always wondered, where the hell do sand dollars come from and what is their purpose in the ecology, anyway?<\/p>\n
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It looked like all the good stuff was already picked up – in previous years, guns, hoop nets, a skull and a variety of weird stuff has been found.<\/p>\n
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All around the pier, the remains of dead sea creatures litter the ocean floor.<\/p>\n
We headed South and then down the canyon – there’s usually trash there.<\/p>\n
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We came across a baby electric ray.<\/p>\n
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TwinDuct found a cool snorkel; I found a fishing knife and nice diving mask.<\/p>\n
I thought I was narced or something, but TwinDuct confirmed what I saw – a duck, swimming around our area at 70 feet underwater.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t turn my camera on quick enough to catch a picture of the duck.<\/p>\n
We went back up the canyon and did one last pass under the pier before heading in.<\/p>\n
I made a perfect exit, except for tripping on my bag in six inches of water.<\/p>\n
After being told to crawl by a DM, I just got up and walked ashore – now that is macho.<\/p>\n
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TwinDuct and I display our bags of trash.<\/p>\n
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Less trash was collected than ever before, and nothing super cool was pulled up either.<\/p>\n
What amazed me, was what was given to the people who cleaned the surface of the beach…<\/p>\n
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Everyone got a plastic bag to put trash in – the liberals hate plastic bags so much, they’ve pretty much banned them all over the South Bay and Long Beach area – but they give the clean up crew evil plastic bags?<\/p>\n
Amazing! What a double standard!<\/p>\n
My thanks goes to Heal and Bay<\/a> and Dive N Surf <\/a> for this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here again is my once a year opportunity to dive underneath the Redondo Beach Pier and collect what people have dropped over the side for the last 12 months. For a few hours, they prohibit fishing off the pier and let SCUBA divers clean the “garbage” underneath. I arrived a little late, so my dive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}