{"id":311,"date":"2005-03-27T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T02:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-01-20T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T19:59:55","slug":"logged-dive-109-lions-head-catalina-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #109, Lion’s Head, Catalina, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Easter Day Diving Off The Bottom Scratcher Boat
\nLion’s Head, Catalina, CA<\/p>\n

Solo Diving<\/p>\n

In With: 2700 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 100 feet and some change
\nWaves: 0
\nVisibility: 35 feet
\nWater Temperature: Cold at 100 feet
\nTotal Bottom Time: 45 minutes<\/p>\n

After an hour surface interval, I did my second dive, bringing my camera.<\/p>\n

I went back to look for a giant sheep crab that I had seen.<\/p>\n

I didn’t find it, but I had gotten so deep, that I decided to hit 100 feet.<\/p>\n

I posed a few times with my gauges.<\/p>\n

My camera had problems working; the flash didn’t work sometimes and I couldn’t hear the camera advance.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/p>\n

But after a few tries, I took a self portrait of me at 100 feet.<\/p>\n

I’m soooo macho!<\/p>\n

I was sort of pissed; I paid $40 for the camera and housing and after two years the thing is starting to go on me!<\/p>\n

I fumbled around with my camera for a few minutes and then headed up to shallower depth.<\/p>\n

I saw a bat ray or a shovel nosed guitarfish that in my narced state, thought was a diver in trouble.<\/p>\n

It just looked surreal, like a scene from a weird movie – a diver struggling in kelp turns into a fish!<\/p>\n

It was distant and I really do need glasses, but it looked like a diver screaming for help underwater – really weird!<\/p>\n

Staying at 40 to 50 feet for the rest of the dive, I squeezed the rest of my air to a 45-minute total dive.<\/p>\n

\"More<\/p>\n

Two divers from Kansas ended up getting caught in the current; they were thrown a current line from the boat and hauled in with the help of several divers on board.<\/p>\n

Bubba the chase boat wasn’t feeling well today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easter Day Diving Off The Bottom Scratcher Boat Lion’s Head, Catalina, CA Solo Diving In With: 2700 psi Out With: 500 psi Max depth: 100 feet and some change Waves: 0 Visibility: 35 feet Water Temperature: Cold at 100 feet Total Bottom Time: 45 minutes After an hour surface interval, I did my second dive, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,16,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}