{"id":2870,"date":"2013-11-11T22:39:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2013-11-11T22:39:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:39:36","slug":"sunday-services-at-terranea-resort-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Services At Terranea Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 10, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

I haven’t been diving with the Sunday morning Terranea crowd since I got back from diving in Poland.<\/p>\n

I have no valid reason for missing so many weekends, and I was thinking of excuses that I could make to not show up today.<\/p>\n

But why?<\/p>\n

What else would I be doing, if I didn’t go?<\/p>\n

I could ride my bike to breakfast and have my traditional Denver Omlette and beer, which never starts out any of my productive weekend days.<\/p>\n

I have no excuses, and not diving makes me old, so I headed to good ol’ Terranea Resort for some diving.<\/p>\n

Local conditions have been really good these past couple of weeks, and I was surprised when only four other divers showed up – Reverend Al, Eric, Ben and a new-to-the-group diver named Jon P.<\/p>\n

Jon has been diving here before and has 150 dives in three years – that was music to our ears, as we were confident we didn’t have to worry too much about him.<\/p>\n

He also brought beers for afterwards, and that made him that much more cooler.<\/p>\n

We went off the Point, and I must say it was one of the easier, low tide entrances that I could have hoped to make.<\/p>\n

I sat on a rock, feet in the water and waited for a gentle swell to pick me up and carry me out.<\/p>\n

\"Entry<\/p>\n

The water was so clear – in some parts, the visibility must have been 30 feet.<\/p>\n

We surface swam 100 yards out to drop on the pinacle.<\/p>\n

Everyone had larger tanks than my Aluminum 80, so I told everyone that I would follow someone until I got low, and would take off from the group.<\/p>\n

We descended…<\/p>\n

Logged SCUBA Dive #456<\/p>\n

Followed Reverend Al and Jon P.\/SoCal Buddy Diving<\/p>\n

Terranea Resort, Off The Point
\nRancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA<\/p>\n

In With: 2800 psi
\nOut With: 400 psi
\nMax depth: 62 feet
\nWaves: Pretty flat
\nVisibility: 15 to 30 feet in most places
\nWater Temperature: 63 degrees
\nAir Temperature: 74 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 35 minutes or so<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

We toured around the pinnacle for about ten minutes before taking a zero heading to shallower water, and a 30 heading to the cove.<\/p>\n

We lost the other two divers, Ben and Eric.<\/p>\n

\"Part<\/p>\n

\"Vis<\/p>\n

\"Part<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/p>\n

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\"Another<\/p>\n

\"White<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

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About 25 minutes into the dive, we ran accross the other two, who were also heading back.<\/p>\n

When I was down to 1000 psi, I split from the group. <\/p>\n

At 500 psi, I ascended and broke the surface – I had about a 150 yard surface swim to reach the cove.<\/p>\n

But, that didn’t really bother me, as the visibility was so good, it made for a nice snorkel home.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

I made an easy exit and was the first one back; ten minutes later, the rest came ashore with no problems.<\/p>\n

\"We<\/p>\n

The guy who maintains the pools gave us and our equipment a ride back to the parking lot – the suggested tip is $5.<\/p>\n

\"Reverend
\nReverend Al, Eric, Jon P, Ben and me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Traditional debriefing ensued – beer, potato chips and some interesting conversation.<\/p>\n

I need to start making Sunday mornings a habit again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 10, 2013 I haven’t been diving with the Sunday morning Terranea crowd since I got back from diving in Poland. I have no valid reason for missing so many weekends, and I was thinking of excuses that I could make to not show up today. But why? What else would I be doing, if […]<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870"}],"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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}