So tell me true, are you guys for Scuba?
Seriously though, any other T-Nation folk avid divers?
I was really into sport diving in my late teens/early 20’s. There’s world class (but cold water) diving where we live and I had some really awesome experiences. Then I got into it on the commercial side. It was still fun, but it was different. Got out of the commercial stuff when I met my wife and never really got back into it.
I think about getting back into the sport stuff as a hobby from time to time, but probably won’t in the immediate future. I highly recommend it to anyone though. Frickin love diving.
Where do you live? Aside from Gotham.
I used to when i was younger/had more money/not a poor student/lived closer to water.
Dove in the red sea, mediterranean and a few cold lakes in europe
I have always wanted to try it; that, and snorkeling. My friend Iron Dwarf was an avid snorkeler. It was hard form to find the right equipment though. He would typically just use one of those straws that come with a Hi-C juice box.
^^ hah!
Ive been diving for about 3 years now. See some crazy mother nature tear jerker crap underwater sometimes.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
^^ hah!
Ive been diving for about 3 years now. See some crazy mother nature tear jerker crap underwater sometimes. [/quote]
Yeah? Got any good stories to share?
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
^^ hah!
Ive been diving for about 3 years now. See some crazy mother nature tear jerker crap underwater sometimes. [/quote]
Yeah? Got any good stories to share?[/quote]
One time I swam up on a 7 foot nurse shark. Was laying in the sand with a giant bite taken out of its side. It was dying, had nothing left, i stayed there for about 5 minutes just watching it. This prehistoric killing machine, streamlined in everyway to be one of the ocean’s apex predators, and it was just helpless. I just watched it slowly die, in a strange way, it was absolutely beautiful. I still swear I heard ‘the circle of life’ playing in my head.
One of the coolest dives was a cenote in mexico. Swimming threw the cave seeing things that made me feel like i was in some lost world was something i still cant shake years later.
Tons of other stuff. I havent been on a dive in about 8 months, need to plan my next trip. Please my name is Steve. I still never get tired of people making a ‘damn you scuba steve!’ reference on every dive.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
^^ hah!
Ive been diving for about 3 years now. See some crazy mother nature tear jerker crap underwater sometimes. [/quote]
Yeah? Got any good stories to share?[/quote]
One time I swam up on a 7 foot nurse shark. Was laying in the sand with a giant bite taken out of its side. It was dying, had nothing left, i stayed there for about 5 minutes just watching it. This prehistoric killing machine, streamlined in everyway to be one of the ocean’s apex predators, and it was just helpless. I just watched it slowly die, in a strange way, it was absolutely beautiful. I still swear I heard ‘the circle of life’ playing in my head.
One of the coolest dives was a cenote in mexico. Swimming threw the cave seeing things that made me feel like i was in some lost world was something i still cant shake years later.
Tons of other stuff. I havent been on a dive in about 8 months, need to plan my next trip. Please my name is Steve. I still never get tired of people making a ‘damn you scuba steve!’ reference on every dive. [/quote]
Diving in caves sounds pretty awesome.
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
^^ hah!
Ive been diving for about 3 years now. See some crazy mother nature tear jerker crap underwater sometimes. [/quote]
Yeah? Got any good stories to share?[/quote]
One time I swam up on a 7 foot nurse shark. Was laying in the sand with a giant bite taken out of its side. It was dying, had nothing left, i stayed there for about 5 minutes just watching it. This prehistoric killing machine, streamlined in everyway to be one of the ocean’s apex predators, and it was just helpless. I just watched it slowly die, in a strange way, it was absolutely beautiful. I still swear I heard ‘the circle of life’ playing in my head.
One of the coolest dives was a cenote in mexico. Swimming threw the cave seeing things that made me feel like i was in some lost world was something i still cant shake years later.
Tons of other stuff. I havent been on a dive in about 8 months, need to plan my next trip. Please my name is Steve. I still never get tired of people making a ‘damn you scuba steve!’ reference on every dive. [/quote]
Diving in caves sounds pretty awesome.[/quote]
So awesome. This was the enterance to one of the cenotes i dove. After about 20 feet in there is no more opening up top, just cave, so it really is scary knowing you cannot surface at all. It is dark, but cracks in the top allow light to shine in making it look magical. There is also this thing called a halocline, basically where the salt and fresh water meet and everything turns blury. so trippy.
EDIT- also it goes for almost a mile, so once you are in, no turning back my friend. Each time you accidentally bump your tank on the ‘roof’ you get so scared you pee yourself, which is great, cause cenotes are really cold and peeing in your wetsuit is survival 101.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
^^ hah!
Ive been diving for about 3 years now. See some crazy mother nature tear jerker crap underwater sometimes. [/quote]
Yeah? Got any good stories to share?[/quote]
One time I swam up on a 7 foot nurse shark. Was laying in the sand with a giant bite taken out of its side. It was dying, had nothing left, i stayed there for about 5 minutes just watching it. This prehistoric killing machine, streamlined in everyway to be one of the ocean’s apex predators, and it was just helpless. I just watched it slowly die, in a strange way, it was absolutely beautiful. I still swear I heard ‘the circle of life’ playing in my head.
One of the coolest dives was a cenote in mexico. Swimming threw the cave seeing things that made me feel like i was in some lost world was something i still cant shake years later.
Tons of other stuff. I havent been on a dive in about 8 months, need to plan my next trip. Please my name is Steve. I still never get tired of people making a ‘damn you scuba steve!’ reference on every dive. [/quote]
Diving in caves sounds pretty awesome.[/quote]
So awesome. This was the enterance to one of the cenotes i dove. After about 20 feet in there is no more opening up top, just cave, so it really is scary knowing you cannot surface at all. It is dark, but cracks in the top allow light to shine in making it look magical. There is also this thing called a halocline, basically where the salt and fresh water meet and everything turns blury. so trippy. [/quote]
Don’t think I could do that. It would freak me out too much knowing there is no opening above me.
My grandfather was a Captain for TWA so growing up I had all the free airfare I wanted down to Florida to visit. I’ve snorkled and scuba dived all over the Gulf of Mexico and part of the Carribean before I was in middle school. Haven’t done it since then…they moved =(
It’s fucking awesome. Just make sure to be respectful and don’t pollute or damage the coral reefs.
Damn, so if you’re tank gets screwed with down there and you freak out basically a goner, I know in BUD/S for SEALS they shake up and mess with peoples tanks in a pool and you have to stay calm and fix it yourself, surfacing is a fail on the test called drown proofing, couldn’t imagine something like that happening down there…
I have my scuba cert. I’ve been to Bonaire, Curacao, Aruba, Cozumel, Belize, Turks and Caicos,Maui, local ravines, great lakes…
Bonaire was my favorite. Nearly everything worth seeing was in 60’ or less of water, shore diving was easy and plentiful, and the underwater diversity was tremendous.
I did my first night dive in Bonaire. The dive master neglected to tell us that there was a tarpon that would follow divers around and use the light of our flashlights to spot bait fish. I was in the water for about 7 minutes when I sensed this disturbance over my shoulder then saw a huge flash in front of me as the tarpon came in over me and grabbed a fish that was about 10’ in front of me. I sucked down the rest of my tank in about 3 minutes.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
Where do you live? Aside from Gotham. [/quote]
Vancouver Island, Canada.
Cenote diving sounds amazing. Colour me envious. I’ve done a few small swim-throughs but most of my overhead environment diving has been on/in wrecks. Really fun stuff. We’ve got a few decommissioned Navy ships that were deliberately sunk here to create artificial reefs. You can get some pretty decent penetration if you’re set up for it, both in terms of equipment and training. Great diving, especially in winter when the vis is really good.
My dad went diving in the Bermuda triangle a couple years back… I’m just surprised they found their way back home lol, I wish I had the extra cash for a certification, I am definitely going to get it soon enough, and plenty to see on the coast of CA I am sure…
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that. Especially that cenote shit. Fuuuuuuuuuck that. I’m a land animal. I haven’t been designed to be in the water like that for like a billion years. The ocean scares the shit out of me. Crazy motherfuckers.
usually a fear of the ocean involves a sort of Actualized reality for fear of the unknown for many many people… You never know what be swimming beneath that surface in the vast open sea… My brother stopped surfing for a while after a dolphin fin popped up five feet from his board lol
[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
Itsusually usually fear of the ocean involves a sort of Actualized reality for fear of the unknown for many many people… You never know what be swimming beneath that surface in the vast open sea… My brother stopped surfing for a while after a dolphin fun popped up five feet from his board lol [/quote]
Oh that’s exactly it. I enjoy the water, but in an environment i have more control over…like a pool.
That would be crazy to see some of that shit though.
Spearfish every weekend that weather permits.
Nothing beats getting underwater and gathering food.