Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
I dove as a safety diver with Instructor John’s Open Water class of five and returning students, Bonnie and Clyde, who were there for “more experience.”*<\/strong><\/p>\n In With: 2800 psi We did the traditional skin dive and what not.<\/p>\n The students:<\/p>\n Pedro – An older man who is taking diving because he desires to go dredging for Gold.<\/p>\n Lurch – A huge guy that Bonnie and Clyde seem to know.<\/p>\n Green Horn – Young guy, skinny and fit.<\/p>\n Leeza – An older woman who desires to dive, but had a friend drowned in the ocean when she was younger.<\/p>\n Young Hottie – A young and petite girl who probably weighs 100 pounds and, like all the other students, is required to carry the 60 pounds worth of SCUBA gear.<\/p>\n We did our traditional “feel the bottom” dive; the students dawned their weight belts and BCD for the buoyancy check.<\/p>\n As we were floating around outside of the surf zone, Pedro mentioned to me, “I think I lost my weight belt.”<\/p>\n I asked, “You think? Did you drop it?”<\/p>\n “I must have.”<\/p>\n John turned Leeza back as she was too nervous.<\/p>\n After John and the rest joined us, it was decided that I would go back to shore, gear up and look for Pedro’s weight belt.<\/p>\n We did not have a spare belt.<\/p>\n I was putting my gear on; Leeza asked what I was doing and said I was going diving to look for a weight belt.<\/p>\n She warned me about diving alone.<\/p>\n I explained that I was just going to be out in the surf zone in shallow water.<\/p>\n Leeza retorted, “Man, you’re psycho.”<\/p>\n I thought, “Psycho solo diver, huh?”<\/p>\n I went out and did a zigzag pattern along the bottom where we entered the surf.<\/p>\n I couldn’t find Pedro’s weight belt.<\/p>\n This whole dive was looking for Pedro’s weight belt.<\/p>\n I surfaced and asked Pedro, “Are you sure you brought your weight belt with you?”<\/p>\n “Uh, I think so,” he responded.<\/p>\n “Do you think you might have left up by your car?”<\/p>\n “I could have.”<\/p>\n Everyone went back on shore.<\/p>\n John and Pedro went to the parking lot to look; I decided to go out one last time where we entered… and tripped over Pedro’s weight belt in two feet of water!<\/p>\n Bonnie and Clyde waited on shore for their turn to dive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA I dove as a safety diver with Instructor John’s Open Water class of five and returning students, Bonnie and Clyde, who were there for “more experience.”* In With: 2800 psi Out With: 2100 psi Max depth: 20 feet Waves: 1-3 feet Visibility: 10 feet Water Temperature: Warm Total Bottom Time: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,23,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 2100 psi
\nMax depth: 20 feet
\nWaves: 1-3 feet
\nVisibility: 10 feet
\nWater Temperature: Warm
\nTotal Bottom Time: 15 minutes
\nNotable Event: This was the dive that gave the the idea for my nickname, “Psycho Solo Diver.”
\n*The names of students have been changed, probably because I don’t remember them to begin with.<\/strong><\/p>\n