Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
Dove as a safety diver with Instructor John and his Open Water students Stan The Macho Man, Tuasopo, and a married couple Franklin and Eleanor.*<\/strong><\/p>\n In With: 3200 psi This was the first time Franklin and Eleanor had been underwater.<\/p>\n We did the traditional “skin dive” to get them accustomed to the waves before dawning our SCUBA gear to go out again.<\/p>\n The surf pounded, but everyone made it out; I was the last one.<\/p>\n Stan The Macho Man and Tuasopo went under for their checkout dive with John.<\/p>\n Franklin and Eleanor were with me attempting to submerge.<\/p>\n Eleanor had some last minute questions on how some of the equipment worked.<\/p>\n John came up to help Franklin down; Eleanor had problems sinking.<\/p>\n I think John put more weight on Franklin.<\/p>\n Once we were all down, we did the traditional “follow John” routine.<\/p>\n I was the first one ashore and helped the couple out of the water; they were amazed at how difficult beach diving can be.<\/p>\n They were exhausted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA Dove as a safety diver with Instructor John and his Open Water students Stan The Macho Man, Tuasopo, and a married couple Franklin and Eleanor.* In With: 3200 psi Out With: 2400 psi Max depth: 55 feet Waves: 1-4 feet Visibility: 5-10 feet Water Temperature: About 56 degrees Fahrenheit Total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 2400 psi
\nMax depth: 55 feet
\nWaves: 1-4 feet
\nVisibility: 5-10 feet
\nWater Temperature: About 56 degrees Fahrenheit
\nTotal Bottom Time: 20 minutes or so.
\n*Note: Student names have been changed.*<\/strong><\/p>\n