Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
Dove with Instructor John, Ron T. and John’s Open Water student Dr. Smith.*<\/p>\n
In With: 2900 psi Ron and I “Dive Mastered” (on shore) the first dive and sent Jake (A rescue student) out to rescue an orange signal sausage.<\/p>\n Jake went out for a swim before his “rescue” so he was too tired to make the second dive.<\/p>\n So for the second dive, Instructor John, Ron T., Dr. Smith and I submerged around 10:30 AM – I’m guessing.<\/p>\n John gave Dr. Smith his basic skills checkout. <\/p>\n When Dr. Smith did his emergency exit, everyone surfaced except me.<\/p>\n I was congested and was surprised that I didn’t have a problem getting down – I did take some Sudafed.<\/p>\n John and Dr. Smith went in, Ron came back down and I motioned to him that I would follow.<\/p>\n Annoying a few local crabs on the way down, I followed Ron to 100 feet.<\/p>\n Ron’s computer didn’t work; I think he forgot to turn it on.<\/p>\n We just took it slow, trying to find anything worthwhile.<\/p>\n All of a sudden, I heard this “Pop! pssst….pssst…”<\/p>\n “Oh fuck!,” I thought.<\/p>\n It sounded like a broken hose; I looked at Ron, he was OK and oblivious to what I had heard. <\/p>\n I looked at my gauges, they were fine – we were at 90 feet.<\/p>\n I was afraid to take a breath because I feared inhaling water – my cheeks kept inflating – my rig was free flowing!<\/p>\n I pressed the purge valve a few times and that stopped it.<\/p>\n My heart was about to jump out of my chest.<\/p>\n The rest of the dive went along pretty uneventful – that’s a good thing!<\/p>\n We slowly made it back up the shelf, spending more than enough time as a safety stop.<\/p>\n I walked ashore, slipping on the sand step; I picked myself back up.<\/p>\n We met John and Dr. Smith back in the parking lot. <\/p>\n Dr. Smith passed his OW class and invited us all out for a few drinks to celebrate. <\/p>\n We politely declined; that’s not something I would usually do, but I could not cut this day short.<\/p>\n We sat around and talked about how working for Hollywood sucks. <\/p>\n I believe Dr. Smith works as a grip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA Dove with Instructor John, Ron T. and John’s Open Water student Dr. Smith.* In With: 2900 psi Out With: 800 psi Max depth: 100 feet Waves: 1-4 feet Visibility: 10 feet, maybe 15. Water Temperature: Sort of cold. Total Bottom Time: 35 minutes Notable Event: My regulator started free flowing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,19,23,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 800 psi
\nMax depth: 100 feet
\nWaves: 1-4 feet
\nVisibility: 10 feet, maybe 15.
\nWater Temperature: Sort of cold.
\nTotal Bottom Time: 35 minutes
\nNotable Event: My regulator started free flowing at 90 feet.
\n *Open Water Student name has been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n