{"id":604,"date":"2006-08-19T00:35:51","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T07:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2008-01-30T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T01:23:31","slug":"logged-dive-202-casino-point-solo-night-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #202 – Casino Point Solo Night Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casino Point, Catalina, CA<\/p>\n

Night time, Solo Diving<\/p>\n

In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 1200 psi
\nMax depth: 50 feet
\nWaves: Insignificant
\nVisibility: 15 feet, maybe 20
\nWater Temperature: Warm
\nTotal Bottom Time: 45 minutes<\/p>\n

After a great dinner at Steve’s Steakhouse and a walk down the pier with my family, I did a night dive.<\/p>\n

I carried all my crap from the hotel to Casino Point; my brother Paul, sister Kate and my father followed.<\/p>\n

There was a class in the water already. <\/p>\n

The eerie green glow of all their lights was predominant.<\/p>\n

Once in the water I descended near the buoys.<\/p>\n

It was really spooky – spookier than I thought it would be.<\/p>\n

I’ve dove Casino Point a lot and at night it looks totally different.<\/p>\n

Yes, fish do sleep – either that or a fish – a White Sea Bass – was dead at the bottom.<\/p>\n

Bigger fish kept following me around.<\/p>\n

Lobsters were all over the ground – none legal size, but it’s a game preserve anyway.<\/p>\n

I made it down to 50 feet and decided there was just as much to see at 30 or 40 feet.<\/p>\n

It was like touring a haunted kelp forest. <\/p>\n

My light hit kelp, rocks, and fish, with a pitch black background.<\/p>\n

I ran across the buoys again, but couldn’t find them on the way back.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

I surfaced, got my bearings and submerged again.<\/p>\n

I found the two buoys and swam to the staircase.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

My “safety crew” greeted me with a beer.<\/p>\n

We humped all my gear back to the Hotel and went out and partied with my brother and sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Casino Point, Catalina, CA Night time, Solo Diving In With: 3000 psi Out With: 1200 psi Max depth: 50 feet Waves: Insignificant Visibility: 15 feet, maybe 20 Water Temperature: Warm Total Bottom Time: 45 minutes After a great dinner at Steve’s Steakhouse and a walk down the pier with my family, I did a night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}