{"id":556,"date":"2006-07-22T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2008-01-28T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T01:38:16","slug":"safety-diver-for-the-los-angeles-sheriff-departments-gold-star-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Safety Diver for The Los Angeles Sheriff Department&#8217;s &#8220;Gold Star Dive.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my second year as a safety diver for this event and this time it&#8217;s part of my Divemaster course.<\/p>\n<p>Instructor John, fellow DM Student Ron and myself took the 7 AM boat over.<\/p>\n<p>As instructed, I just took free diving equipment.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have to take my weight belt, but I did some free diving before the event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/234.jpg\" alt=\"Registration and food!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Registration and food!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/329.jpg\" alt=\"The safety crew.  Pretty damn scary, huh?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The safety crew.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty damn scary, huh?<\/p>\n<p>The charity event started at 11 AM &#8211; John and I were in Kayaks;  Ron was in the water with a can.<\/p>\n<p>The whole event went without a hitch, thank God.<\/p>\n<p>I was getting so bored, I reached over to grab a piece of kelp &#8211; I was going to throw it on the kayak and watch it turn green in the Sun &#8211; but I fell over and into the water.<\/p>\n<p>Ron swam over and held the kayak as I climbed back on board &#8211; Ron wrote this down as his &#8220;rescue&#8221; for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Jake from American Diving swam over and dumped a chick that was in another Kayak;  Jake then had to free dive for her lost mask.<\/p>\n<p>This event had record attendance; I think 130 registered divers participated.<\/p>\n<p>We took the early boat back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my second year as a safety diver for this event and this time it&#8217;s part of my Divemaster course. Instructor John, fellow DM Student Ron and myself took the 7 AM boat over. As instructed, I just took free diving equipment. I didn&#8217;t have to take my weight belt, but I did some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,9,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}