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: 2100 psi So now the students get to SCUBA dive.<\/p>\n Leeza turned back in because of nerves.<\/p>\n There was a strong current going North towards the pier; it usually goes the other way.<\/p>\n All but Leeza made it through the surf zone.<\/p>\n I was the first to submerge; the rest were suppose to follow.<\/p>\n Lurch, Young Hottie, Bonnie and Clyde made it down.<\/p>\n John was having problems getting Pedro and Green Horn down.<\/p>\n We were all waiting in pretty crappy visibility that was getting worse because the students were stirring the bottom up.<\/p>\n After ten minutes of waiting, I signaled for everyone to surface.<\/p>\n John called the dive because of the current; we were getting closer and closer to the pier.<\/p>\n Pedro was trying to dog paddle against the current.<\/p>\n I told him that I would tow him; he rolled over on his back; I grabbed his tank and started towing him.<\/p>\n After a minute, Pedro yelled, “Stop! Stop! I can’t breath when you do that!”<\/p>\n I let go.<\/p>\n Pedro started to dog paddle against the current, floating towards the pier.<\/p>\n I said, “I need to tow you if you can’t beat the current, you’re going in to the pier.”<\/p>\n I grabbed his tank again and started towing him.<\/p>\n Pedro yelled, “Please stop that! I’m having trouble breathing when you do that!”<\/p>\n By this time, John had made sure everyone else was on shore and dove back in the water and swam over to Pedro.<\/p>\n John grabbed Pedro and started towing him.<\/p>\n Pedro did his, “Oh, stop please I can’t breathe!” routine.<\/p>\n John held on to him and yelled, “God damn it Pedro! Don’t you dare panic on me! Do exactly as I say.”<\/p>\n John continued to tow him.<\/p>\n Once close to shore John yelled instructions to Pedro, who was sort of combative.<\/p>\n I was exhausted.<\/p>\n I think it was a combination of no breakfast and a hang over.<\/p>\n John later told me, “When someone who is near panic won’t respond to a calm and rational voice, just start cussing at them.<\/p>\n “Maybe they’ll be more afraid of you than drowning.”<\/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: 2100 psi Out With: 1900 psi Max depth: 20 feet Waves: 1-3 feet Visibility: 10 feet but getting shittier Water Temperature: Warm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,18,23,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 1900 psi
\nMax depth: 20 feet
\nWaves: 1-3 feet
\nVisibility: 10 feet but getting shittier
\nWater Temperature: Warm
\nTotal Bottom Time: 10 minutes or so
\nNotable Event: Dealing with a diver near panic, unable to swim against a current.
\n*The names of students have been changed, probably because I don’t remember them to begin with.<\/strong><\/p>\n