{"id":12396,"date":"2019-09-27T18:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T01:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=12396"},"modified":"2019-10-01T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:47:46","slug":"new-friend-andy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2019\/09\/27\/new-friend-andy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our new friend Andy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two takeaways from day one of shark diving:<\/p>\n

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  1. Seven hours in the water with great whites will reduce your core body temperature to scary places, even in a 7mm wetsuit. Clearly only an idiot would spend that much time in the water; I hope my internal organs eventually thaw.<\/li>\n
  2. If a great white shark wants to eat you, you have no chance. Zero. After witnessing massive sharks appear out of nowhere to chomp bait, I can say with certainty that the only reason surfing is popular on the California coast is because the sharks choose to ignore the dudes riding waves.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Most of the time spent in the water today was awesome, but the last part of the day things got slow and the cages emptied out, so when Audrey and I climbed back in at 4:15 we had the water to ourselves and didn’t know the show that was in store. It was quiet for a bit, but when Andy the shark returned and started tearing bait apart and then smiling at us as he swam by, the day moved from memorable to unforgettable.<\/p>\n

    \"Andy<\/div>\n
    Andy in the background, terrified looking mackerel in the foreground.<\/div>\n
    \"Andy<\/div>\n
    In open water it’s hard to tell how big he is, but Andy was a healthy 14 feet long and put the other sharks on notice when he was around.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two takeaways from day one of shark diving: Seven hours in the water with great whites will reduce your core body temperature to scary places, even in a 7mm wetsuit. Clearly only an idiot would spend that much time in the water; I hope my internal organs eventually thaw. If a great white shark wants … Continue reading “Our new friend Andy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,30],"class_list":["post-12396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-isla-guadalupe","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12396"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12407,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396\/revisions\/12407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}