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<\/p>\nHaving not been able to put a SCUBA diving trip together for several years, I stumbled onto the diving trip of a life time.<\/p>\n
It is a group tour in July 2017 that originates in Vladivostok, Russia… and after eight days, ends back in Vladivostok, Russia.<\/p>\n
I wired my deposit last week.<\/p>\n
Other than that, I really shouldn’t say anything else – but I’m sure it will be an adventure.<\/p>\n
Lobster season is coming up, and I’m doing my final preparations – renewing all by licenses, making sure my lights are good and practicing my lobster death grip.<\/p>\n
I’ll be on the Bottom Scratcher this Friday night – yeah, I don’t like big boats for lobster hunting, but it’s slim pickings this year.<\/p>\n
Having stayed the night in Palos Verdes, it was easy for me to show up right on time at 8 am in the public spot of Terranea Resort.<\/p>\n
We went down and checked the conditions.<\/p>\n
Reverend Al and I would have easily made it out from the Point, however, it was high tide and the receding swells and the pounding waves were intimidating.<\/p>\n
Since we didn’t want to perform any rescues, we decided to go off the Cove.<\/p>\n
The crew consisted of Me, Reverend Al, Nice Bob, the other Jeff, Rob and Blue Steel.<\/p>\n
On the way down, Rob blew an O-ring and had to turn back.<\/p>\n
It was an easy entrance and visibility looked promising…<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Logged SCUBA Dive #502<\/p>\n
Dove with Nice Bob and the other Jeff<\/p>\n
120 Reef, Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA<\/p>\n
In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 1500 psi
\nMax depth: 43 feet
\nWaves: Flat with some extreme rouge waves
\nVisibility: 10 feet with some silt
\nWater Temperature: 64 degrees
\nAir Temperature: 80 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 31 minutes<\/p>\n
We swam to the rocky finger just off of the cave and submerged.<\/p>\n
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I followed Nice Bob and the other Jeff.<\/p>\n
![\"The](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/sept2016dafsr3.jpg\")
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Visibility was not great and there was a large amount of surge on the bottom.<\/p>\n
After touring the 120 reef for about 20 minutes, Bob started leading us back.<\/p>\n It was an all-sand dive similar to Veterans Park; the visibility really sucked – 5 feet at best.<\/p>\n But, Bob lead us right to the Cove; we all made easy exits.<\/p>\n As we were walking back, a HUGE rouge wave started towards the beach and crashed into the rocks; every rock on that beach was wet.<\/p>\n If we were delayed by five minutes, someone would have gotten hurt during their exit.<\/p>\n Two minutes later, some people who were sitting on the rocks came up soaking wet.<\/p>\n We did our traditional debrief in the parking lot…<\/p>\n Let’s get ready for Lobster Season!<\/p>\n Happy Hunting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having not been able to put a SCUBA diving trip together for several years, I stumbled onto the diving trip of a life time. It is a group tour in July 2017 that originates in Vladivostok, Russia… and after eight days, ends back in Vladivostok, Russia. I wired my deposit last week. Other than that, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356"}],"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=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Throwing](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/sept2016dafsr4.jpg\")
\nThrowing a pass with a sea hare.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Diving](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/sept2016dafsr5.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![\"Rouge](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/sept2016dafsr6.jpg\")
\nA second smaller wave started to form and I was able to get a picture of that one.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Group](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/sept2016dafsr7.jpg\")
\nThe other Jeff, Me, Nice Bob, Reverend Al and Blue Steel.<\/em><\/p>\n