{"id":551,"date":"2006-06-25T19:16:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T02:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2008-01-27T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T18:39:20","slug":"logged-dive-190-helping-with-an-ow-class-at-veterans-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #190 &#8211; Helping With An OW Class At Veteran&#8217;s Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran&#8217;s Park<br \/>\nRedondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n<p>Dove with Instructor John, his friend Jim, and John&#8217;s Open Water students Archie, Gloria, Young Biologist, and Young Biologist&#8217;s Brother.<strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In With: 2800 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 1900 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 40 feet<br \/>\nWaves:  1-3 foot ankle breakers<br \/>\nVisibility: 5-10 feet<br \/>\nWater Temperature: 62 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface, 54 degrees Fahrenheit thermocline.<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 25 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>*Student names have been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We geared up rather quickly compared to last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I was the first one through the surf zone.  <\/p>\n<p>I told the group, &#8220;I&#8217;ll make it past the line of death first;&#8221;  Gloria found the humor in that.<\/p>\n<p>Archie was tired and had to rest, Jim tank towed Gloria, unknowing to her at first.<\/p>\n<p>This was the &#8220;check out&#8221; dive.<\/p>\n<p>John was congested, so he had me go up with three of his students during their simulated emergency swimming ascent; I pointed out to Gloria that she needs to exhale as she ascends.<\/p>\n<p>We did a little touring once the basic skills were done.<\/p>\n<p>Coming ashore, I tried helping Archie out, but he was too tired to get up.  <\/p>\n<p>He crawled up on to the shore and I helped him take his fins off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran&#8217;s Park Redondo Beach, CA Dove with Instructor John, his friend Jim, and John&#8217;s Open Water students Archie, Gloria, Young Biologist, and Young Biologist&#8217;s Brother.* In With: 2800 psi Out With: 1900 psi Max depth: 40 feet Waves: 1-3 foot ankle breakers Visibility: 5-10 feet Water Temperature: 62 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface, 54 degrees [&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\/551"}],"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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}