Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
\n(aka The Old Marineland)<\/p>\n
Solo Diving<\/p>\n
In With: 2900 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 40 feet
\nWaves: 1-2 feet, insignificant
\nVisibility: 10-15 feet
\nWater Temperature: Chilly at first, but slightly warmer once I peed in my wetsuit.
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 50 minutes<\/p>\n
Not only what a dive, but also what a day!<\/p>\n
I got up early – at 3:30 AM and went to Honeymoon Cove.<\/p>\n
It looked too choppy I thought, so I headed to Malaga Cove.<\/p>\n
Malaga looked diveable, but I didn’t want to waste my time there, so I headed home for a short nap.<\/p>\n
I was heading to Long Point at about 8:30 AM along Harbor Blvd. and got pulled over for rolling through a stop sign, excessive speed, a broken tail light and cited for having no proof of insurance.<\/p>\n
The Officer warned me on the speed and tail light and ticketed me for no insurance and the California stop at the stop sign.<\/p>\n
To top it off, one of the guys that was in the car was the person who piloted the boat when John, Jim and I were training the Harbor Police to dive back in June.<\/p>\n
The guy seemed oblivious to the fact that he knew me – or at least knew of me.<\/p>\n
The ticket was issued by the Harbor Police.<\/p>\n
I just wanted to go and drink afterwards – I might of canceled, but I thought to myself, “I’m not going to let the cops fuck up my day.”<\/p>\n
I entered the water around 9:15 AM – easy entry, but the water was a little chilly.<\/p>\n
I was warned about a hell of a current going towards the point.<\/p>\n
I swam East after submerging – ran across a bed of Sea Feathers and reefs that I had not seen before.<\/p>\n
I was swimming along in about 35 feet of water and out of the corner of my left eye I thought I saw a Guitar fish – I looked over and it was a Pacific Electric Ray!<\/p>\n
My heart jumped – those things had been known to be aggressive to divers.<\/p>\n
I swam away quickly; it didn’t follow. <\/p>\n
Phew!<\/p>\n
I zig-zagged through some strange reefs and saw a huge male Sheephead.<\/p>\n
I headed back when I got down to 1500 psi, or so.<\/p>\n
Luckily, I surfaced before I overshot my exit.<\/p>\n
I swam underneath to what I thought was the West side of Pigeon Shit cave.<\/p>\n
As I started to get washed up onto the rocks, I leaped back and swam as fast as I could as I was washing up on the rock jetty.<\/p>\n
I made it back around the rocks and ashore without further incident.<\/p>\n
Jake was there at the rocky shoreline with his truck – he was waiting for other divers to exit.<\/p>\n
But, those guys were under with 100 ft tanks and Jake didn’t feel like waiting, so he gave me a ride up to the locked gate.<\/p>\n
Jake tried going around by trying to climb a hill, but smashed the underside of his truck.<\/p>\n
One of the local divers came over and unlocked the gate and said, “the owners saw your truck and locked the gate. <\/p>\n
“They won’t allow anyone to dive here if you drive down.”<\/p>\n
It was Dennis G’s 500th dive and there was an ensuing party.<\/p>\n
Reverend Al introduced me as “Jeff No Nickname.”<\/p>\n
Now they’re trying to figure out who “Psycho Solo Diver” and “Local Diver And Board Troll” are.<\/p>\n
Mwahahaha!<\/p>\n
Someone named “Evil Jeff” told me, don’t worry there’s a lot of Jeffs, but we’ll find you a name.<\/p>\n
I said, “that’s great as long as it’s nothing stupid.”<\/p>\n
Evil Jeff said, “that’s it, your name is ‘Stupid Jeff.'”<\/p>\n
I took my nickname into my own hands at that point.<\/p>\n
Good and fun day except for the fucking ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (aka The Old Marineland) Solo Diving In With: 2900 psi Out With: 500 psi Max depth: 40 feet Waves: 1-2 feet, insignificant Visibility: 10-15 feet Water Temperature: Chilly at first, but slightly warmer once I peed in my wetsuit. Total Bottom Time: About 50 minutes Not only what a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}