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<\/a><\/p>\nThis place is the famous “Cardiac Hill.”<\/p>\n
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We geared up and walked down to a fork in the path. <\/p>\n
Straight lead to a narrow path down to the rocks where Nick’s diving book said were the best conditions.<\/p>\n
After going right on the switch-back, the path is absolutely terrifying to walk down fully geared. <\/p>\n
It’s very narrow and at one point there’s a big rock that jets out of the cliff and the path underneath was only a foot and a half wide.<\/p>\n
The trail didn’t bother Nick; he wanted to go back up that way because there were no surges West of the rocks.<\/p>\n
Nick was concerned about walking too far back. <\/p>\n
I was concerned about getting killed on the trail back.<\/p>\n
We entered the water around 10:30 AM or so. <\/p>\n
Nick didn’t want to swim “too far.” <\/p>\n
I’m thinking, “Crap, we’re here to dive….?”<\/p>\n
Neither of us were hunting or talking pictures.<\/p>\n
We slowly submerged and went East. <\/p>\n
This is a very shallow dive. <\/p>\n
We didn’t get deeper than 20 feet the whole time. <\/p>\n
We surfaced a few times to get our bearings.<\/p>\n
Around the kelp near the middle rocks, Nick pointed out a Bat Ray – a BIG Bat Ray!<\/p>\n
It was on the bottom minding its own business.<\/p>\n
It startled me; I hear those things can sting badly.<\/p>\n
The bottom reminded me of Shaw’s Cove but without the shells; actually, it’s a lot like White Point.<\/p>\n
We hung around that area for the remainder of the dive.<\/p>\n
There’s a small rocky beach exit just to the East, but Nick didn’t want to walk back that far.<\/p>\n
Shit, sometimes I really prefer solo diving.<\/p>\n
We went in just underneath the end of the trail to the East. <\/p>\n
It’s very shallow; add a few waves and it’s hazardous.<\/p>\n
Up Cardiac Hill was a bitch. <\/p>\n
It was a 15 minute walk – it seemed like forever.<\/p>\n
In with: 3100 psi
\nOut with: 1600 psi
\nMaximum depth: 20 feet
\nWaves: 1-2 feet
\nVisibility: 15-20 feet
\nTemperature: about 60 degrees F
\nTotal Bottom Time: 45 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pt Vicente Fishing Access, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (aka Cardiac Hill) Dove with Nick I met Nick at Malaga Cove around 8 AM. This is high tide and we were planning to dive there. The conditions didn’t look too promising. It was shallow, the water looked murky. We checked out Pt. Vicente; it’s West of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/218"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}