Veteran’s Park
\nRedondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
Dove with Instructor John’s Open Water students Young Biologist, Young Biologist’s Brother and John’s friend Jim.*<\/strong><\/p>\n In With: 1900 psi Jim led the way; I checked both student’s air before we descended over the shelf. <\/p>\n There was a hell of a thermo-cline, it got really cold!<\/p>\n Once down to 63 feet, Jim checked the students’ air and pointed that we needed to go back.<\/p>\n We turned around and I lead the way towards shore.<\/p>\n We all surfaced about 30 yards out. <\/p>\n Jim said that Young Biologist only had 900 psi when we were at 62 feet. <\/p>\n She was really going through air fast; I’m glad Jim caught that!<\/p>\n Jim and the Young Biologist did a surface swim back to shore. <\/p>\n Her brother and I submerged for the swim; he wanted just to go ashore and not do any more touring.<\/p>\n We came across a Bat Ray; I hit its tail, but it didn’t move. <\/p>\n It was obviously dead. <\/p>\n The student later asked if we could have taken it. <\/p>\n I explained why it’s not a good idea to take fish that’s already dead.<\/p>\n This was a fairly quick dive; John’s group came in after us.<\/p>\n After talking to Archie and Gloria who apparently graduated today, they only plan to go resort diving “about once a year.”<\/p>\n To each his own…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran’s Park Redondo Beach, CA Dove with Instructor John’s Open Water students Young Biologist, Young Biologist’s Brother and John’s friend Jim.* In With: 1900 psi Out With: 800 psi Max depth: 62 feet Waves: 1-3 feet Visibility: 5-10 feet Water Temperature: 62 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface, 54 degrees Fahrenheit thermo cline. Total Bottom Time: […]<\/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\/552"}],"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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 800 psi
\nMax depth: 62 feet
\nWaves: 1-3 feet
\nVisibility: 5-10 feet
\nWater Temperature: 62 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface, 54 degrees Fahrenheit thermo cline.
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 20 minutes
\n*Student names have been changed.
\n<\/strong>
\nGloria had a short fill from the shop, so John turned Young Biologist and her brother over to dive with Jim and me.<\/p>\n