{"id":3109,"date":"2014-06-22T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2014-06-24T06:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:56:55","slug":"beginning-of-summer-dive-bat-rays-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=3109","title":{"rendered":"Beginning Of Summer Dive – Bat Rays Spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"

My apologies to my four loyal readers – I had been sick with congestion and some kind of weird lung infection for about a month; obviously, I’ve had to stay out of the water.<\/p>\n

But, with my recovery and the first day of Summer, I had decided to get back in the water at Terranea with a barbecue afterwards.<\/p>\n

I posted on Divevets<\/a> that I would be bringing the ghetto grill and some tube steaks – yeah, times are hard for me right now.<\/p>\n

I pulled in to the public lot at Terranea Resort to find the lot packed with cars – I have never seen anything like it.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to have scored a spot – other divers had to park on the street near the old public access lot.<\/p>\n

I geared up and started the walk to the Point with Mean Bob and the other Dennis. <\/p>\n

An ultralight aircraft buzzed by the coast on our way down to the shore.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what it is – I always get nervous when entering off the Point.<\/p>\n

There’s big boulders that you have to climb over and you have to time it right so you ride a swell out; any mistake means you could get beached on a rock, or slammed against the boulders by an incoming wave.<\/p>\n

Luckily, the swells were gentile, and I entered without issues.<\/p>\n

However, once I swam out, I was with Reverend Al and his group – Mean Bob was nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

The kelp was leaning in the opposite direction of the Cove – our exit point.<\/p>\n

I told Al that I would follow his group, but I would leave early to fight the current back, and not to worry.<\/p>\n

\"Off<\/p>\n

We descended. <\/p>\n

Logged SCUBA Dive #467<\/p>\n

Dove with: Reverend Al, Chipper and others, solo the second half<\/p>\n

Terranea Resort (a.k.a. Old Marineland)
\nRancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA<\/p>\n

In With: 2800 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 61 feet
\nWaves: Pretty calm, gentle, rolling swells
\nVisibility: 10 feet
\nWater Temperature: 72 degrees
\nAir Temperature: 81 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 43 minutes<\/p>\n

\"Vis
\nVisibility sort of sucked.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A
\nA Cabezon, I think?<\/em><\/p>\n

At 1500 psi I cut from the group and headed towards the Cove.<\/p>\n

The highlight of my dive…<\/p>\n

\"Bat
\nA Bat Ray!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Bat<\/p>\n

Either this Bat Ray made the rounds, or there were many in the water at the time, but over debriefing, most divers saw at least one Bat Ray.<\/p>\n

\"A
\nThe light and visibility got better once I got shallower.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A
\nSomething must have really been hungry to take a bite out of a Starfish! <\/em><\/p>\n

I surfaced at 500 psi, about 150 yards from my exit.<\/p>\n

I surface swam to the Cove.<\/p>\n

\"A
\nI passed over a Sheep Crab.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Paddle
\nPaddle Boarders<\/em><\/p>\n

I made an easy exit to the watchful eyes of the Pacific Wilderness Dive Club.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Calm
\nPerfect conditions to exit!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Debriefing<\/p>\n

Traditional debriefing started – announce that you are bringing a grill…<\/p>\n

\"Donna<\/p>\n

…and food starts showing up from all over the place.<\/p>\n

\"Group
\nToday’s group.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Tube
\nTube steaks.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Buffet
\nThe buffet – Tube steaks, mustard, buns, potato chips, fruit salad, macaroni salad, pie and chocolate brownies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing like burning 800 calories beach diving to consume 1000 calories at the debriefing!<\/p>\n

An excellent day back in the water – I am hoping this Summer will be full of diving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My apologies to my four loyal readers – I had been sick with congestion and some kind of weird lung infection for about a month; obviously, I’ve had to stay out of the water. But, with my recovery and the first day of Summer, I had decided to get back in the water at Terranea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109"}],"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=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}