North of Margate, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA
\nSouthern California Buddy Diving with John and Ron off of John’s Zodiac<\/p>\n
In With: 2900 psi
\nOut With: 1500 psi
\nMax depth: 40 feet
\nWaves: Minor chop
\nVisibility: 10-15 feet
\nWater Temperature: Cool
\nTotal Bottom Time: 35 minutes<\/p>\n
Wow, it’s great to have a friend with a boat!<\/p>\n
It was the same routine; I picked Ron up, met John at his boat and we were off.<\/p>\n
I took my spear gun just in case I needed to look macho in front of some chicks, but I had no intention of shooting anything unless I knew the ocean was crawling with White Sea Bass.<\/p>\n
During the ride to Margate, we hit a swell pretty hard and heard a big “wooshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” like an inner tube leaking, or something.<\/p>\n
My stomach sank; it would be a long surface swim from where we were if the boat was sinking.<\/p>\n
It ended up being the fire extinguisher spraying into the storage bag.<\/p>\n
CO2 was everywhere, but at least that’s what it was and not an inner tube.<\/p>\n
We anchored just North of Margate.<\/p>\n
I jumped over, fumbled with putting my BCD on and eventually submerged.<\/p>\n
It took a while for me to get down; I was sort of cold and my ears didn’t clear immediately.<\/p>\n
I trolled for scallops and Uni.<\/p>\n
I thought if there’s one thing that I can get, it is Uni, and being a fan of Sushi, I really would appreciate such a lunch with my post dive beers.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t find any scallops.<\/p>\n
I was the first one back to the boat.<\/p>\n
John complained that a seal was following him around on his dive.<\/p>\n
Ron came back shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North of Margate, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA Southern California Buddy Diving with John and Ron off of John’s Zodiac In With: 2900 psi Out With: 1500 psi Max depth: 40 feet Waves: Minor chop Visibility: 10-15 feet Water Temperature: Cool Total Bottom Time: 35 minutes Wow, it’s great to have a friend with a boat! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}