Diver below 83
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So I remembered watching a local news piece about the Miami dade police divers being tasked with going under and visually scanning the bottoms of cruise ships for explosives etc in the port of Miami. This was a while ago and closer to 9/11 and cruise ships were expected to be the next target. They showed some clips and interviews of the divers going down the whole ship under water and checking out the propeller pods as well. Of course they were At the docks and the ships were not moving.
This got me wondering. Have any of you ever dove under a true “ship”? Clearly almost all of us have dove under a “boat” at some point but I’m talking full on ship? What’s it like, especially when you get near those giant propellers?
Then that got me thinking more. Has anyone been diving under a “shipping lane, jetty/port outlets etc where “ships” are actually moving above you visually in some way? I know this is going to be extremely rare because those types of places are not for typically divers, but I’m sure some of you on this board may have had a good reason(work, military etc).
Ok well thanks for letting me share my random thought. As a newer diver sometimes I just find certain things intriguing
This got me wondering. Have any of you ever dove under a true “ship”? Clearly almost all of us have dove under a “boat” at some point but I’m talking full on ship? What’s it like, especially when you get near those giant propellers?
Then that got me thinking more. Has anyone been diving under a “shipping lane, jetty/port outlets etc where “ships” are actually moving above you visually in some way? I know this is going to be extremely rare because those types of places are not for typically divers, but I’m sure some of you on this board may have had a good reason(work, military etc).
Ok well thanks for letting me share my random thought. As a newer diver sometimes I just find certain things intriguing