{"id":465,"date":"2005-11-13T20:44:40","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T03:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2008-01-26T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T17:11:13","slug":"logged-dive-161-long-point-sort-of-buddy-diving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #161 &#8211; Long Point Sort Of Buddy Diving&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA<br \/>\n(aka The Old Marineland)<\/p>\n<p>Dove with Ed, well, sort of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In With: 2900 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 700 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 45 feet or so<br \/>\nWaves:  1-3 feet<br \/>\nVisibility: 15-20 feet<br \/>\nWater Temperature: cool, but not cold<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 50 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Ed is trying to get back in to diving; he has had a lot of stress running his bar, but he&#8217;s realizing that he will always have stress with that place he bought.<\/p>\n<p>We made it down to the Cove about 8:40 AM.  <\/p>\n<p>Dennis, Al and the rest of the regulars were already in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Nick came down to check out the conditions, but he wasn&#8217;t planning on diving because of back problems.  <\/p>\n<p>He would have reconsidered if he knew Ed was going to bring a dolly to carry his gear.<\/p>\n<p>To me, Ed looked a little uncomfortable getting into the water.<\/p>\n<p>We got out a few dozen yards past the surf zone and Ed said to me, &#8220;Go on, I&#8217;m just going to practice (diving) here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I stayed with him for a few minutes, but figuring he could handle himself, I went on my way.<\/p>\n<p>I went East looking for lobsters, but ended up collecting about 10 Sea Urchins &#8211; Uni &#8211; that ended up having very little meat in them.<\/p>\n<p>I came across a huge bat ray that was just sleeping on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>I made it out with no problems;  Ed was already on shore.<\/p>\n<p>The regulars were having a beer party when we got back;  they&#8217;re a great bunch of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (aka The Old Marineland) Dove with Ed, well, sort of&#8230; In With: 2900 psi Out With: 700 psi Max depth: 45 feet or so Waves: 1-3 feet Visibility: 15-20 feet Water Temperature: cool, but not cold Total Bottom Time: 50 minutes Ed is trying to get back in to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}