{"id":752,"date":"2007-12-15T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T04:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2008-02-17T10:06:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T17:06:38","slug":"logged-dive-267-underwater-christmas-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #267 – Underwater Christmas Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran’s Park
\nRedondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n

Solo Diving<\/p>\n

In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 90 feet
\nWaves: Flat!
\nVisibility: 20 feet, some silt
\nWater Temperature: Sort of cold
\nTotal Bottom Time: 45 minutes<\/p>\n

Nothing like a nice exercise dive in December water.<\/p>\n

Dive N Surf and Divevets were having their annual Christmas tree dive and toy run.<\/p>\n

Since I didn’t sign their waiver and didn’t know a lot of people there, I decided to not “officially” be part of the group.<\/p>\n

I just wanted to dive and observe.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

I entered the water a few minutes ahead of the Christmas group and dove down to 20 feet heading West.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

I came across the Christmas tree that they had anchored earlier and preceded down the shelf to water that was only slightly chillier.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

My ancient console served me faithfully.<\/p>\n

I headed West slowly making it down to 85 feet; I turned around after reaching 1800 psi.<\/p>\n

I navigated to the “monument” or “blocks” that rest at 65 feet just over the shelf.<\/p>\n

Every time I see this place, more junk has been added.<\/p>\n

\"More
\nSome kind of sound board was the newest edition.<\/p>\n

Back up the shelf I went and ran in to….<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

…The orange traffic cone!<\/p>\n

I was so excited!<\/p>\n

I trolled North a ways and then ran back in to the underwater Christmas party which was in full swing.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Divers decorate the underwater Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The photographer and crew get ready for pictures with Santa.<\/p>\n

\"Santa<\/p>\n

Last minute decorations…<\/p>\n

\"Last<\/p>\n

\"Santa<\/p>\n

Santa adjusts his garb.<\/p>\n

\"Divers<\/p>\n

Divers pose with Santa.<\/p>\n

\"Divers<\/p>\n

\"Santa<\/p>\n

I exited just off the stairs and quickly packed up.<\/p>\n

For some reason I didn’t stick around… maybe because of the lack of faces that I’m used to talking to.<\/p>\n

Next time I’ll have a few beers before heading over.<\/p>\n

A van parked behind me with a bumper sticker that really has more truth than most people want to admit…<\/p>\n

\"Abortion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veteran’s Park Redondo Beach, CA Solo Diving In With: 3000 psi Out With: 500 psi Max depth: 90 feet Waves: Flat! Visibility: 20 feet, some silt Water Temperature: Sort of cold Total Bottom Time: 45 minutes Nothing like a nice exercise dive in December water. Dive N Surf and Divevets were having their annual Christmas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"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=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}