{"id":2596,"date":"2013-07-01T06:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2013-07-01T06:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:45:57","slug":"sea-d-sea-to-close-forever-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Sea D Sea To Close Forever Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seadsea.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Sea D Sea Dive Shop,<\/a> a local icon of the diving community for the last 44 years will officially close today.<\/p>\n<p>With an average of 85% of new students quitting diving within their first year, diving shops have never really been a great investment idea; and even with the enticement of reduced rent to keep it a dive shop, nobody bought it.<\/p>\n<p>So today is the last day before it turns into some kind of a boutique or gift shop, as rumor has it.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 10 years, I&#8217;ve always gone in for a quick air fill or a deal on gear. <\/p>\n<p>Crazy Ivan used to teach out of the shop, and had yours truly help with some of his classes.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped in a couple of weeks ago, when I heard the news of Sea D Sea closing &#8211; there wasn&#8217;t much inventory left, but I did walk away with a $110 light for $60.<\/p>\n<p>Barry and Sea D Sea will truly be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your retirement Barry, and thank you for the many great years of service!<\/p>\n<p>There is a interesting article by the <em>Daily Breeze<\/em> on Barry and Sea D Sea: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/ci_23521916\/sea-change-redondo-beach-scuba-shop-close-after\" target=\"_new\">Sea change: Redondo Beach scuba shop to close after 44 years<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea D Sea Dive Shop, a local icon of the diving community for the last 44 years will officially close today. With an average of 85% of new students quitting diving within their first year, diving shops have never really been a great investment idea; and even with the enticement of reduced rent to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596"}],"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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}