Casino Point, Catalina, CA<\/p>\n
Dove with Instructor John and his Open Water students Pedro, Leeza, Cheech and his two advanced students.* <\/strong><\/p>\n John’s wife Rebecca came along to bubble watch.<\/p>\n In With: 2000 psi The idea was to go to the barge with the group.<\/p>\n I went down first, the rest followed. <\/p>\n Cheech was a little lost getting down, it took him a little over a minute.<\/p>\n John lead, I took up the back.<\/p>\n Leeza’s fin fell off; I put it back on.<\/p>\n We followed John through some kelp down to a sandy portion of the floor at 60 feet.<\/p>\n Leeza just stopped, kneeling on the sandy bottom.<\/p>\n She didn’t seem panicked, maybe just tired.<\/p>\n I gave her the “Are you OK?” sign.<\/p>\n No response.<\/p>\n I asked again.<\/p>\n No response.<\/p>\n She opened her eyes a little, looked over, raised up her middle towards me and gestured “up” – maybe she was just giving me the finger?<\/p>\n I grabbed her by the BC shoulder strap and started slowly dragging her towards the surface.<\/p>\n I had to kick hard, but was happy to see the bottom get smaller. <\/p>\n It seemed like the longest swim to the surface that I can remember.<\/p>\n Once we broke the surface, I noticed we were outside the park.<\/p>\n I told Leeza to put air in her jacket; I thought she did.<\/p>\n I asked her if she wanted to go in – that was a stupid question! <\/p>\n I won’t ask next time in a similar situation.<\/p>\n “Yes, let’s go in,” she said.<\/p>\n The class had continued without us.<\/p>\n I lifted the buoy line up and towed Leeza under the park’s border.<\/p>\n I then continued to tank tow her to the stairs.<\/p>\n “We need to go in right now!” she yelled.<\/p>\n I said calmly, “We’re going there; it’s just going to take a few minutes.”<\/p>\n As we approached the stairs, the rest of the class was climbing out.<\/p>\n “John!” I yelled.<\/p>\n He looked over, as he was looking for us.<\/p>\n “How’s Leeza?” John asked.<\/p>\n “She’s really tired.”<\/p>\n We helped her out and up the stairs; she was exhausted.<\/p>\n Leeza later explained that she was nauseas. <\/p>\n The only thing that she had to eat was a cup of coffee for breakfast.<\/p>\n John thinks she’s hyperglycemic and is requiring her to eat before she dives from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Casino Point, Catalina, CA Dove with Instructor John and his Open Water students Pedro, Leeza, Cheech and his two advanced students.* John’s wife Rebecca came along to bubble watch. In With: 2000 psi Out With: 1200 psi Max depth: 60 feet Waves: 1 to 2 feet, insignificant Visibility: 25 feet Water Temperature: Cool Total Bottom […]<\/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\/448"}],"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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 1200 psi
\nMax depth: 60 feet
\nWaves: 1 to 2 feet, insignificant
\nVisibility: 25 feet
\nWater Temperature: Cool
\nTotal Bottom Time: 15 minutes
\n*Student names have been changed.<\/strong>
\nNotable Event: Dealt with a tired and panicked diver.<\/p>\n