{"id":632,"date":"2007-05-20T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2008-02-14T06:45:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T13:45:57","slug":"logged-dive-230-long-point-dive-and-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #230 &#8211; Long Point Dive and Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA<br \/>\n(aka The Old Marineland)<\/p>\n<p>Dove with Ron T.<\/p>\n<p>In With: 2800 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 1100 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 40 feet<br \/>\nWaves:  2-3 foot swells<br \/>\nVisibility: 15 feet<br \/>\nWater Temperature: Cool<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: 35 minutes<\/p>\n<p>I got to Long Point about 8:15 AM.<\/p>\n<p><img ALT=\"The ever changing Long Point.\" SRC=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc01366.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ron was scoping the shore out with Reverend Al and the Divevets.<\/p>\n<p>The Point was a little choppy, so the decision was made to go off the cove.<\/p>\n<p>Ron and I walked down to the cove.<\/p>\n<p>Old Marineland looks a lot different now than compared to years back.<\/p>\n<p>It was low tide &#8211; which is the main reason not to go off the point.<\/p>\n<p>We saw three divers go off the rocky beach near Pigeon Shit cave.<\/p>\n<p>I walked out and sloppily put my fins on in the surf zone.<\/p>\n<p>I hit a piece of submerged rebar &#8211; something that I had been warned about in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Ron and I met outside the surf zone.<\/p>\n<p>We both agreed that we would never go out in that spot again.<\/p>\n<p>We swam to the right, West, and submerged.<\/p>\n<p>Ron kept floating up.<\/p>\n<p>I surfaced and asked what was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;HUA, that&#8217;s a technical term for &#8216;Head Up Ass.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ron was not weighted for such a shallow dive and had a hard time staying down.<\/p>\n<p>We went closer to shore;  Ron dove down and grabbed a few large rocks until he came across one that was perfect.<\/p>\n<p>We continued our dive &#8211; Ron looked ridiculous holding a big rock for additional weight.<\/p>\n<p>We still had to go deeper.<\/p>\n<p>As Ron put it later, &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to go down, but hard to stay down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We toured the sandy part to remain deep and came across a field of sea feathers.<\/p>\n<p>Ron was burning a lot of air carrying that rock.<\/p>\n<p>We headed in and made it to shore without incident near friendship rock.<\/p>\n<p>We partied afterwards with beer and Bratwursts on the Barbecue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img ALT=\"Party at Long Point.\" SRC=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc01370trtr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We discussed what could have possibly happened to the asphalt that once covered the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p><img ALT=\"Party at Long Point.\" SRC=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc01371trtr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Group shot,\u00a0 looking towards the hills.<\/p>\n<p><img ALT=\"Party at Long Point.\" SRC=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc01372trtr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another group shot; the Catalina room used to be in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Point, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (aka The Old Marineland) Dove with Ron T. In With: 2800 psi Out With: 1100 psi Max depth: 40 feet Waves: 2-3 foot swells Visibility: 15 feet Water Temperature: Cool Total Bottom Time: 35 minutes I got to Long Point about 8:15 AM. Ron was scoping the shore out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}