{"id":646,"date":"2007-07-15T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T23:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2008-02-16T17:19:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T00:19:18","slug":"logged-dive-243-pt-vicente-wall-from-the-island-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #243 – Pt Vicente Wall From The Island Diver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dive On the Point Vicente Wall off the Island Diver
\nPalos Verdes Peninsula, CA<\/p>\n

In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 2200 psi
\nMax depth: About 40 feet
\nWaves: choppy
\nVisibility: 10-15 feet
\nWater Temperature: 55 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 18 minutes
\nNotable Event: Distress Call From Another Boat<\/p>\n

Dove with Juan Twenty, Mirek and others.<\/p>\n

Should this be considered a dive?<\/p>\n

We all had made it back on board, but due to no current, nobody saw the wall.<\/p>\n

So the plan was to move to the small rock island off of the Point Vicente Lighthouse and go down for “a few minutes” to check it out.<\/p>\n

Well, only a few minutes… I mean really, I just got out of the water so I didn’t really have a surface interval.<\/p>\n

I mentioned to Juan Twenty that I only had 700 psi left in my tank.<\/p>\n

People were concerned, so I switched tanks and proudly exclaimed, “I’ve never run out of air and don’t intend on doing it today.”<\/p>\n

Laila seemed relieved.<\/p>\n

We jumped over, swam towards the rocks and submerged.<\/p>\n

I followed Juan, but pretty much we went as a group before breaking up in to two groups.<\/p>\n

Juan, Mirek and me looked around the wall.<\/p>\n

\"Just<\/p>\n

Photo By Juan Twenty<\/em><\/p>\n

Thousands of muscle shells littered the base of the wall.<\/p>\n

There was a sense that “not too many people have dove here.”<\/p>\n

Sea urchins, fish, a few octopuses – and then we came across a plaque that stated something along the lines of:<\/p>\n

“The Artist Of The Deep Blue”<\/p>\n

“_en Wayne Redding”<\/p>\n

“1961-1998”<\/p>\n

\"Artist<\/p>\n

Photo By Juan Twenty<\/em><\/p>\n

An internet search revealed nothing.<\/p>\n

We swam toward the direction of the boat and surfaced fairly close to it.<\/p>\n

The others who broke off from our group were shortly behind.<\/p>\n

I’m glad that I did switch tanks.<\/p>\n

I would have been really rushed for time.<\/p>\n

Once on board, we heard a distress call coming in over the emergency radio channel.<\/p>\n

With my recollection, along with a post on divevets.com from Max Bottomtime, here is a close transcription of the call:<\/p>\n

RADIO: We need immediate assistance!!!!<\/p>\n

Coast Guard: Were you the people yelling mayday a few minutes ago?<\/p>\n

RADIO: Yes!! We have three people down! Three people down!<\/p>\n

Coast Guard: What is your location?<\/p>\n

RADIO: We are at Rocky Point near the white lighthouse.<\/p>\n

Coast Guard: What are your GPS coordinates?<\/p>\n

RADIO: We are between Long Beach and Marina Del Rey at the breakwater near the white lighthouse!!!! Please help us! This is an emergency!!!<\/p>\n

Coast Guard: Which break water?<\/p>\n

RADIO: The Long Beach Break water!!!!<\/p>\n

Coast Guard: What is the nature of your emergency?<\/p>\n

RADIO: Our anchor is stuck and we have three people down! Three People Down!!!!!<\/p>\n

Coast Guard: What is the specific emergency?<\/p>\n

RADIO: They are sea sick and barfing all over my boat! We need assistance right now!!!<\/p>\n

(Long Pause)<\/p>\n

UNKNOWN VOICE: Be sure to kill them when you find them!<\/p>\n

Everyone listening just busted out laughing at such a ridiculous call!<\/p>\n

Max Bottomtime, who was listening on another boat, put in his post, “As soon as he said they were barfing we almost fell out of the boat laughing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dive On the Point Vicente Wall off the Island Diver Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA In With: 3000 psi Out With: 2200 psi Max depth: About 40 feet Waves: choppy Visibility: 10-15 feet Water Temperature: 55 degrees Total Bottom Time: 18 minutes Notable Event: Distress Call From Another Boat Dove with Juan Twenty, Mirek and others. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}