{"id":1494,"date":"2011-01-22T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesg.net\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2011-01-31T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:06:42","slug":"wreck-trek-with-parrot-island-scuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wreck Trek&#8221; with Parrot Island Scuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was already in the South Florida area, I couldn&#8217;t leave and not go diving.\u00a0 Cris had some friends of hers that were going out, so I decided to join them.\u00a0 After borrowing a set of LP85 doubles from a cave diving friend who lives in South Florida, I was ready to dive.\u00a0 We met Nate and Brian at Dennys for some breakfast before heading off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridabywater.com\/south-east-florida\/pompano-beach\/boat-ramps\/995-william-j-alsdorf-boat-launching-park\" target=\"_blank\">Wm. J. Alsdorf Boat Launching Park<\/a> where we would board with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parrotislandscuba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parrot Island Scuba<\/a>.\u00a0 As it turned out, everyone on the boat knew each other, so we were able to rent the boat out for $300, or $50\/person, which is a great deal!\u00a0 Furthermore, we got to choose where we would dive.<\/p>\n<p>After we talked it over, it was decided that our first dive would be on Wreck Trek, and the second would be on a reef.\u00a0 As odd as this might sound coming from a cave diver, wreck dives don&#8217;t really do much for me, but I do love reef dives.\u00a0 For the first dive, I brought my video camera along.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some video that I took-<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19233675?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19233675\">Wreck Trek<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2359644\">James Garrett<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was already in the South Florida area, I couldn&#8217;t leave and not go diving.\u00a0 Cris had some friends of hers that were going out, so I decided to join them.\u00a0 After borrowing a set of LP85 doubles from a cave diving friend who lives in South Florida, I was ready to dive.\u00a0 We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,224],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dive-log","tag-scuba-diving","tag-wreck-diving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}