And it's one of the most challenging, difficult, and dangerous beach entry/exits in the area.
Except on those rare "Lake Pacific" days, it requires experience, skill, strength, strong buddies, tenacity, wisdom, and brass gonads.
You're just tougher than you realize, Robert!
Please be reasonably cautious when introducing out-of-town divers to SoCal
beach diving. WE are used the surf and surge and the rocks and the urchins and the cliffs and the stairs....because we have to be to get in the water on many days/nights. Those that don't like it, boat dive
.
Some other areas of the country have much calmer "beach diving" environments, (often with no surf at all,) and visiting divers sometimes don't know what to expect.
Reasonable expectations make for safer diving and more fun all around.
omg... I think I'm channeling dearest Pasley :14: .
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Claudette
(I miss you, Melvin... be safe and come home on time.)