{"id":633,"date":"2007-06-16T09:41:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=633"},"modified":"2008-02-03T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T19:12:29","slug":"freediving-at-malaga-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Freediving At Malaga Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA<\/p>\n

Free Diving\/Kayak Diving With Ed<\/p>\n

Max depth: 15 feet
\nWaves: 1-4 foot rolling swells
\nVisibility: 5-10 feet, sort of silty
\nWater Temperature: Cool
\nTotal Ocean Time: 30 minutes or so.<\/p>\n

There’s been red tide that’s kept me out of the water of a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Ed bought a two person inflatable Diveyak that has never been in the water.<\/p>\n

It’s been gathering dust for about a year.<\/p>\n

I picked Ed up and we split for Malaga.<\/p>\n

A lot of divers were there; Long Point is now closed for beach access.<\/p>\n

Revered Al, his buddies and a few other divers checked out Ed’s Diveyak.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/p>\n

We put our spears and the rest of the equipment in the kayak, carried it down to the rocks and launched it after a precarious walk over the rocks.<\/p>\n

When the Diveyak was in the water, the tubes started to cool and the boat started to sag.<\/p>\n

I pumped more air in with the “foot pump,” holding it against my chest.<\/p>\n

We paddled out, fighting a surface current that was running parallel to Rossler’s pool – or at least that’s what it used to be called.<\/p>\n

I hard a hard time sitting comfortably.<\/p>\n

Ed was in the front, I was in the back. The seat was in my way and I actually ended up sitting on top of it.<\/p>\n

We dropped anchor.<\/p>\n

SCUBA divers were all around.<\/p>\n

I thought to myself, “Why did we even take this kayak out here? We could have made it this far from shore.”<\/p>\n

I guess we just had to test the diveyak.<\/p>\n

We dove over and did our free diving.<\/p>\n

\"Me,<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/p>\n

I hunted; Ed didn’t buy a fishing license yet, so he just dove.<\/p>\n

Fish were scarce, the visibility wasn’t too great.<\/p>\n

Once back on the boat, we drifted and paddled to the sandy beach.<\/p>\n

\"Ed<\/p>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

I remember when my wetsuit held my beer gut in.<\/p>\n

I hoped out in waist deep water; a wave picked up and dumped Ed out of the boat.<\/p>\n

Luckily, everything was strapped in.<\/p>\n

\"We<\/p>\n

I had the bright idea of deflating the kayak to make it easier to carry.<\/p>\n

Even without air, that thing is heavy and cumbersome for one person.<\/p>\n

We eventually made it back up the hill for some beers and a barbecue at Ed’s place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA Free Diving\/Kayak Diving With Ed Max depth: 15 feet Waves: 1-4 foot rolling swells Visibility: 5-10 feet, sort of silty Water Temperature: Cool Total Ocean Time: 30 minutes or so. There’s been red tide that’s kept me out of the water of a couple of weeks. Ed bought a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}