Casino Point, Catalina, CA<\/p>\n
Dove with Instructor John, his friend Jim, and John’s Open Water students*<\/strong> Archie, Gloria and Young Biologist.<\/p>\n In With: 3200 psi Here’s a breakdown of John’s current Open Water students:<\/p>\n 1. One student couldn’t clear his mask in the pool, so he wasn’t allowed to go to Catalina – he cried.<\/p>\n 2. One student is on mental medication, but “not while diving;” this student is not on this Catalina trip.<\/p>\n 3. Brother of Young Biologist got sick the day before and couldn’t make this trip.<\/p>\n 4. Young Biologist, student of Marine Biology; probably 18 or 19 years old.<\/p>\n 5. and 6. Archie and Gloria, a father and daughter team that didn’t realize that setting up their gear is “hard work” – or so they said.<\/p>\n Jim’s wife and his kid came along for the ride.<\/p>\n John found a knife during the free dive; Young Biologist’s BC leaked from the inflator hose.<\/p>\n When the students were setting up their rigs, Gloria remarked to her father that “diving is a lot of work.”<\/p>\n He responded by saying, “Don’t worry, in Hawaii they do all this stuff for you.”<\/p>\n Young Biologist’s mask leaked, and kept leaking.<\/p>\n John had me bring her in and rejoin the group.<\/p>\n I got back down as they were heading off to the Jacques Cousteau memorial.<\/p>\n Jim and I kept an eye on the two students Archie and Gloria; I had to replace Gloria’s fin because it had fallen off.<\/p>\n Archie was doing a Stairmaster kick and crawling on the bottom.<\/p>\n Gloria was more buoyant, but had a lame kick.<\/p>\n We washed up with little problem.<\/p>\n The stairs were visible to the end of the rocks; it was extremely low tide.<\/p>\n Young Biologist as it turns out had her mask strap on lop-sided.<\/p>\n John took her out for a dive while we took a lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Casino Point, Catalina, CA Dove with Instructor John, his friend Jim, and John’s Open Water students* Archie, Gloria and Young Biologist. In With: 3200 psi Out With: 2000 psi Max depth: 40 feet Waves: Insignificant Visibility: 10-15 feet Water Temperature: Cool, maybe 60 degrees Fahrenheit Total Bottom Time: 24 minutes *Student names have been changed. […]<\/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\/549"}],"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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 2000 psi
\nMax depth: 40 feet
\nWaves: Insignificant
\nVisibility: 10-15 feet
\nWater Temperature: Cool, maybe 60 degrees Fahrenheit
\nTotal Bottom Time: 24 minutes
\n*Student names have been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n