{"id":2207,"date":"2012-01-14T23:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T06:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2012-01-16T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:51:00","slug":"redondo-beach-saturday-scuba-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2207","title":{"rendered":"Redondo Beach Saturday SCUBA Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to a wild party tonight, so I doubt that I will be making the Sunday Services dive and debrief.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to make good on a New Year&#8217;s Revolution &#8211; a dive once a week &#8211; I stopped by Redondo Beach for a quick exercise dive.<\/p>\n<p>I have NEVER seen Redondo Beach so flat!<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/calmredondo667w8.jpg' alt='I have NEVER seen Redondo Beach so flat!' \/><\/p>\n<p>What surprised me was the lack of divers;  there probably wasn&#8217;t more than a dozen in the parking lot or in the water.<\/p>\n<p>I geared up and made the easiest entrance I think I&#8217;ve ever made &#8211; including some boat dives.<\/p>\n<p>Logged SCUBA Dive #401<\/p>\n<p>Solo Diving<br \/>\nVeterans Park, Redondo Beach, CA USA<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 1500 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 89 feet<br \/>\nWaves: Flat &#8211; the flattest I&#8217;ve ever seen<br \/>\nVisibility: 15 feet<br \/>\nWater Temperature: 56 degrees<br \/>\nAir Temperature: 67 degrees<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 28 minutes<\/p>\n<p>I had my game bag with me to collect lost gear, so I submerged in 10 feet of water and went West.<\/p>\n<p>Sand dollars, sand and trash&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Down the canyon I went.<\/p>\n<p>At 89 feet I found a nice snorkel!<\/p>\n<p>I turned around and came across a shovel head &#8211; no, not a shark, an actual shovel head from a hardware store.<\/p>\n<p>A crab was living under it, so I just left it.<\/p>\n<p>Coming back up the canyon, it suddenly turned really dark, almost like a night dive.<\/p>\n<p>Looking up, I saw a massive school of mackerel that blocked the sunlight; it quickly passed.<\/p>\n<p>I made my way back up the canyon and slowly back to an extremely easy exit &#8211; as a matter of fact, &#8220;the sand step&#8221; that was so common at the surf zone appears to be gone.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/found_snorkel21123.jpg' alt='Score! If you think it\u2019s yours, contact me with specifics and it shall be returned.' \/><\/p>\n<p>Score! If you think it&#8217;s yours, contact me with specifics and it shall be returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to a wild party tonight, so I doubt that I will be making the Sunday Services dive and debrief. Trying to make good on a New Year&#8217;s Revolution &#8211; a dive once a week &#8211; I stopped by Redondo Beach for a quick exercise dive. I have NEVER seen Redondo Beach so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207"}],"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=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}