{"id":534,"date":"2006-04-29T21:59:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T04:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2008-01-27T09:05:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T16:05:39","slug":"logged-dive-178-diving-the-ruby-e-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #178 – Diving The Ruby E Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wreck Diving The Ruby E
\nOff the Lois Anne Boat
\nSan Diego, CA<\/p>\n

Dove with fellow DM student Ron T; Instructor John followed.<\/p>\n

In With: 3700 psi (Overfill!)
\nOut With: 2000 psi
\nMax depth: 70 feet
\nWaves: Insignificant
\nVisibility: 20 feet
\nWater Temperature: 51 degrees Fahrenheit
\nTotal Bottom Time: 20 minutes<\/p>\n

The Ruby E is a sunken Coast Guard Cutter.<\/p>\n

Vis on this dive was a little better than on the Yukon; but, maybe it just looked that way because we could see practically the whole ship – the Yukon is just too big.<\/p>\n

I again was the first one off the boat; we followed the mooring line down to the ship.<\/p>\n

\"Strawberry<\/p>\n

There was some kind of purple coral of the wreck – later identified as Strawberry Anemones.<\/p>\n

Ron and I swam through the wheelhouse…<\/p>\n

\"Ron<\/p>\n

\"Ron<\/p>\n

There are sharp points along the deck where the railing used to be.<\/p>\n

It was cold; I was getting an “ice cream” headache.<\/p>\n

John went in to the hull.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/p>\n

Ron motioned to me that we should go up. <\/p>\n

Ron was diving very conservatively; he may have been narced, but I didn’t think so.<\/p>\n

However a 20-minute dive at 70 feet after an hour surface interval seems pretty short to me.<\/p>\n

We did our safety stop and surfaced with no problem.<\/p>\n

A lot of the other divers were doing decompression diving. <\/p>\n

John said, “they put a lot of faith on theory.”<\/p>\n

A lot of the other divers were knuckleheads. <\/p>\n

I think a lot of it was the typical new diver syndrome – new equipment and big egos.<\/p>\n

As part of our Dive Master class, we talked extensively to the hot Dive Master, Anita.<\/p>\n

She said she gets frustrated with the divers who don’t listen or don’t respond.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The DM Anita, The Captain and John in the foreground.<\/p>\n

I said to Anita, “So if I stop breathing, you would give me mouth to mouth resuscitation?” <\/p>\n

The Captain interrupted, “I know CPR, too.”<\/p>\n

There was a fishing boat that kept following us; Anita had to “shoe them away.”<\/p>\n

After a short and beerless trip back to the harbor, John and I packed up and went to lunch with his nephew Michael Paul and his friend who are training to become Navy Seals.<\/p>\n

With gas prices over $3 a gallon, there were not many people on the road. <\/p>\n

At 4:30 AM, we made it to San Diego in an hour and a half – the same amount of time it took us to come back at 3 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wreck Diving The Ruby E Off the Lois Anne Boat San Diego, CA Dove with fellow DM student Ron T; Instructor John followed. In With: 3700 psi (Overfill!) Out With: 2000 psi Max depth: 70 feet Waves: Insignificant Visibility: 20 feet Water Temperature: 51 degrees Fahrenheit Total Bottom Time: 20 minutes The Ruby E is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}