{"id":550,"date":"2006-06-18T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T02:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2008-01-27T11:32:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T18:32:40","slug":"logged-dive-189-dmiting-an-ow-class-at-casino-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #189 &#8211; DMITing AN OW Class At Casino Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casino Point, Catalina, CA<\/p>\n<p>Dove with Instructor John, his friend Jim, and John&#8217;s Open Water students<strong>*<\/strong> Archie, Gloria and Young Biologist.<\/p>\n<p>In With: 2000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 1000 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 60 feet<br \/>\nWaves:  Insignificant<br \/>\nVisibility: 10-15 feet<br \/>\nWater Temperature: Cool<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 20 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>*Student names have been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I about flipped when Gloria took her wetsuit off during the surface interval.  <\/p>\n<p>We were trying to take an early boat out and I thought very early that this group was going to drag ass.<\/p>\n<p>After John and Young Biologist had their surface interval (lunch) we all went down to do the second dive of the day.<\/p>\n<p>We submerged and followed John.  <\/p>\n<p>John was his typical torpedo self.  <\/p>\n<p>The students tried to follow the best they could, dragging across the bottom and doing their &#8220;stairmaster&#8221; kick.<\/p>\n<p>I paid attention to Young Biologist as she was my &#8220;buddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing really out of the ordinary to report on this dive.<\/p>\n<p>We exited as the tide was coming up.<\/p>\n<p>We all packed up and left Casino Point with the hope of getting an early boat back.<\/p>\n<p>We ended up being on standby for the 2:05 PM boat. <\/p>\n<p>The students paid $10 more to get on the &#8220;Commodore&#8221; class &#8211; you sit on the middle deck and get a free drink and bag of chips.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us were able to wait and get on the same boat, Economy class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casino Point, Catalina, CA Dove with Instructor John, his friend Jim, and John&#8217;s Open Water students* Archie, Gloria and Young Biologist. In With: 2000 psi Out With: 1000 psi Max depth: 60 feet Waves: Insignificant Visibility: 10-15 feet Water Temperature: Cool Total Bottom Time: 20 minutes *Student names have been changed. I about flipped when [&hellip;]<\/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\/550"}],"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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}