{"id":5176,"date":"2019-09-30T17:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2019-09-30T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:45:05","slug":"dive-number-six-off-the-pacific-star-eagle-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=5176","title":{"rendered":"Dive Number Six Off The Pacific Star – Eagle Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

September 22, 2019*<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After last night’s dive, there was some debate about where we should dive once we reached Catalina Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\n were suppose to do the back side, something that I have never \nexperienced, but the conditions were reported to be green and crappy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Captain Dave said that he would anchor on the backside and move if conditions were bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between the beer, the mountains of food and the boat moving constantly for the last 24 hours, I developed what felt like acid re-flux disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not sleep very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At around 4 o’clock in the morning, I heard these massive bangs on the side of the boat as we rocked back and forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t smell smoke and I wasn’t wet, so I was determined to sleep through, or try and sleep through, the disturbance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After what seemed like an hour of bang, slosh, bang, slosh, the engines fired back up and the boat took off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m only going to guess that we were anchored on the back side, and that we were now on our way to the front side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\n woke up promptly at 6 AM to pound coffee and eat bread; First gate time\n was 7 AM and the real breakfast would be served afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were anchored outside of Two Harbors on the East side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to take a piss really bad, so I was ready to go when the gates opened at 7 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"This
This is what I look like when I pee in my wet suit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I descended…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logged SCUBA Dive #516<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solo Diving, SoCal Buddy Diving<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eagle Reef, Catalina Island, CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In With: 3000 psi
Out With: 500 psi
Max depth: 100 feet
Waves: Pretty calm with light chop
Visibility: 15-25 feet depending on where you were.
Water Temperature: 63 degrees, 55 at depth
Air Temperature: 71 degrees
Total Bottom Time: 47 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I reached bottom at 40 feet and proceeded East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was fairly dark and very green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Eagle
Eagle Reef.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Small
Small fish off of Eagle Reef.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Eagle<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I went all the way down the East side of the Reef and reached 100 feet in the sand – nothing to see, just bragging rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a big therocline at about 60 feet where the water temperature dropped into the 50’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A
A Garibaldi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I serenaded myself with some underwater rap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Heading
Heading back to the boat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I made an easy swim back to the boat, with just an easy exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Divers
Divers come up the swim step of the Pacific Star.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had a breakfast burrito to recharge for the next two dives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last two dives, coming soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n*Due to lack of internet access, and too much to do to write while it is\n happening, there has been a delay in these posts. Pretend you are in \n1990.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 22, 2019* After last night’s dive, there was some debate about where we should dive once we reached Catalina Island. We were suppose to do the back side, something that I have never experienced, but the conditions were reported to be green and crappy. Captain Dave said that he would anchor on the backside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,9,3,6],"tags":[56,58,50,45,47,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176"}],"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=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}