Casino Point, Catalina, CA<\/p>\n
Dove with Instructor John, his ex-private OW student (see dives #126<\/a> and ), and his Open Water class of students: a mother and daughter team – Kathy and Paris, General Custer and Dr. Smith*<\/strong><\/p>\n In With: 3200 psi We did the usual pre-SCUBA skin dive with all four students. <\/p>\n His ex-private student also came to watch.<\/p>\n The women found free diving a lot easier when they deflated their BCD jackets.<\/p>\n On the SCUBA dive, I submerged first and waited at the bottom for the others to follow. <\/p>\n Paris and General Custer had a hard time getting down, but eventually everyone did!<\/p>\n Kathy and Paris did their basic skills checkout dive.<\/p>\n John fed the fish frozen peas and then we followed him down to the casino point, catalina.<\/p>\n Dr. Smith pointed out that he had only 500 psi – John had me take him in. <\/p>\n He unnecessarily apologized to me for running low on air. <\/p>\n “Don’t worry,” I said.<\/p>\n This was a perfect student dive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Casino Point, Catalina, CA Dove with Instructor John, his ex-private OW student (see dives #126 and<\/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\/516"}],"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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 2000 psi
\nMax depth: 45 feet
\nWaves: 1 foot at most, insignificant
\nVisibility: 20 feet plus
\nWater Temperature: 57 degrees Fahrenheit
\nTotal Bottom Time: 29 minutes
\n*Student names have been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n