Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
Dove With Instructor John and his Basic Open Water class.<\/p>\n
In With: 3100 psi
\nOut With: 1700 psi
\nMax depth: 70 feet
\nWaves: 1-4 feet (Red Tide)
\nVisibility: 5 feet at best – It sucked because of Red Tide.
\nWater Temperature: 60 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 24 minutes<\/p>\n
It has been raining on and off for a solid month.<\/p>\n
The whole Southern California has been drenched.<\/p>\n
Landslides, floods, people dieing have all been in the news.<\/p>\n
I have been taking a SCUBA Rescue Course through Instructor John; two weeks ago the ocean work was canceled due to the poor conditions.<\/p>\n
The last leg of the Rescue Course is scheduled today at 10:30 AM; I showed up at 7:30 to watch John teach his class.<\/p>\n
Jake from the Rescue Course was there, too.<\/p>\n
John was teaching four students from “Pelican,” the flashlight company.<\/p>\n
I made it out first in the 2-3 foot red tide surf; two students followed.<\/p>\n
The third student turned back.<\/p>\n
John rescued the fourth student who was hyperventilating.<\/p>\n
John took him back through the surf and pulled him to shore with the help of the other student.<\/p>\n
John made it back out with the rest of us.<\/p>\n
We submerged to 20 feet and followed John down the shelf to 70 feet.<\/p>\n
It was extremely dark; a student turned his flashlight on – a flashlight that I later recovered for him when he dropped it.<\/p>\n
Then we headed back.<\/p>\n
I was the first one on shore.<\/p>\n
We helped one of the students back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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