Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
I dove as a safety diver with Instructor John’s Open Water class.*<\/strong><\/p>\n In With: 2600 psi John canceled the July 31st trip to Catalina due to an illness.<\/p>\n Young Hottie, Green Horn, Pedro and three other students from another class were in attendance.<\/p>\n We did the traditional “get wet and feel the bottom” and skin dive routine.<\/p>\n Class moved fairly quickly.<\/p>\n On this dive, Pedro canceled the dive because he had “sand in the latches of his fins.” <\/p>\n John swam over and jokingly asked if I had sabotaged his fins.<\/p>\n I submerged first, everyone else followed except for one of the new students. <\/p>\n The student had some kind of a sinus problem; his eyes were as big as golf balls, so John sent him back in.<\/p>\n With everyone down, I took up the back, John lead. <\/p>\n New divers! <\/p>\n They breathe heavy, crawl on the bottom and bicycle kick; I must have done the same thing when I was learning.<\/p>\n One of the new students developed an ear problem – as he told me later – at forty feet and started to ascend; his buddy followed him, and I followed them. <\/p>\n He tried to submerge again, but couldn’t make it.<\/p>\n Rejoining John and his group at this point would have been a long shot.<\/p>\n We floated towards the stairs and started to exit just as the rest of our group was doing the same several yards away from us. <\/p>\n John accidentally dropped his weight belt helping Young Hottie out of the surf.<\/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.* In With: 2600 psi Out With: 2000 psi Max depth: 40 feet Waves: 1-3 feet Visibility: 5-10 feet Water Temperature: Cold at 40 feet Total Bottom Time: 15 minutes or so *The names of students have been changed. […]<\/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\/435"}],"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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 2000 psi
\nMax depth: 40 feet
\nWaves: 1-3 feet
\nVisibility: 5-10 feet
\nWater Temperature: Cold at 40 feet
\nTotal Bottom Time: 15 minutes or so
\n*The names of students have been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n