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<\/p>\nThe weather was overcast, but warm; diving reports from Wednesday from Veterans Park were of dismal conditions, including large rolling waves.<\/p>\n
I was really thinking about staying home, but I had good feelings about today.<\/p>\n
I got to Terranea Resort about 20 minutes late, but parking was no problem.<\/p>\n
Reverend Al, Steve and Donna the Hot Biker Chick were walking back from a conditions check.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“It looks a little green, so we’re going off the Point and deep,” I was told.<\/p>\n
We geared up and walked to The Point; we were the only divers there today.<\/p>\n
Entering off The Point was a little tricky, and we got surprised by some pounding rouge swells.<\/p>\n
I waited patiently for the swells to subside and made it out with no issues.<\/p>\n
Donna was a little winded when she made it out – I think she had to fight against an incoming swell; Eric looked like he nearly missed playing pinball against some rocks.<\/p>\n
We swam around and under the kelp before meeting again and doing our final descent. <\/p>\n
Logged SCUBA Dive #468<\/p>\n
Dove with: Reverend Al, Donna The Hot Biker Chick, Eric and Mike<\/p>\n
Terranea Resort (a.k.a. Old Marineland)
\nRancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA<\/p>\n
In With: 2900 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 62 feet
\nWaves: Generally calm with some big rolling waves on shore
\nVisibility: 8-10 feet, silty
\nWater Temperature: 68 degrees
\nAir Temperature: 81 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 46 minutes<\/p>\n
In three words – visibility sucked ass.<\/p>\n
I followed Reverend Al, the rest followed us. <\/p>\n
Believe it or not, but Al found the statue at the pinnacle; it is heavily encrusted with sea growth, but still recognizable. <\/p>\n
We started to head to The Cove after five minutes; there was a strong current going the other way.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t a bad dive, but the visibility just sort of sucked.<\/p>\n
Mike apparently spotted a few lobsters.<\/p>\n
I didn’t see anything really cool – like a shark or something; it was a typical, low vis non-dramatic dive.<\/p>\n
I broke away from the group at 500 psi and surface swam about 150 yards to a perfect exit.<\/p>\n
The five of us talked about how we sometimes scare off some would-be divers wanting to join us here.<\/p>\n “I just want people to know, this is a rocky entrance and exit – do we really need to rescue someone who isn’t ready for a dive like this?” I asked.<\/p>\n We then went over some scenarios if a diver did get injured while making an entrance off The Point.<\/p>\n Those scenarios were scary to think about.<\/p>\n Debriefing ended well before noon.<\/p>\n The weather was overcast, but warm; diving reports from Wednesday from Veterans Park were of dismal conditions, including large rolling waves. I was really thinking about staying home, but I had good feelings about today. I got to Terranea Resort about 20 minutes late, but parking was no problem. Reverend Al, Steve and Donna the […]<\/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\/3136"}],"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=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Parking](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/OML629DSCF5786.jpg\")
\nLight debriefing ensued.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/OML629sundayscrew.jpg\")
\nToday’s diving crew – Me, Donna The Hot Biker Chick, Mike, Reverend Al and Eric<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"