Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
\n(aka The Old Marineland)<\/p>\n
Diving with John H.<\/p>\n
In With: 2900 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 45 feet
\nWaves: 1-4 feet, swooping
\nVisibility: 5-10 feet
\nWater Temperature: Cool to cold
\nTotal Bottom Time: 45 minutes<\/p>\n
My instrument panel on the Duster is screwed up, so I decided to go diving after realizing that replacing the instrument regulator didn’t fix anything.<\/p>\n
I called John H to let him know that I’d be down at Long point around 8:30 AM.<\/p>\n
I took the “long way” around Palos Verdes and was there at 8:30 AM – so was John H.<\/p>\n
It was about high tide and the waves were rolling in, long and sweeping over the rocks.<\/p>\n
We were about to call it off, until John H. found out that the surfing conditions sucked too.<\/p>\n
John H said, “I’ll go if you are up for diving.”<\/p>\n
My machismo kicked in; we went.<\/p>\n
We tried to find the lobster trap that I’ve been keeping tabs on.<\/p>\n
It was too soupy, 5 to 10 feet; we were close, I could tell.<\/p>\n
I motioned to John that I would follow him.<\/p>\n
John H shot a 15-inch Sheephead.<\/p>\n
I followed him around, losing him once when he took “a shot at something big with fins.”<\/p>\n
He swears it wasn’t me.<\/p>\n
I surfaced and followed the bubbles back down to him.<\/p>\n
He shot an even bigger sheephead afterwards.<\/p>\n
We went to the kelp bed on the “other” side of Pigeon Shit cave.<\/p>\n
It was too soupy, so we headed back.<\/p>\n
We saw lobsters in deep holes.<\/p>\n
Easy out, but a little challenging.<\/p>\n
I crawled up behind “friendship rock.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (aka The Old Marineland) Diving with John H. In With: 2900 psi Out With: 500 psi Max depth: 45 feet Waves: 1-4 feet, swooping Visibility: 5-10 feet Water Temperature: Cool to cold Total Bottom Time: 45 minutes My instrument panel on the Duster is screwed up, so I decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}