What's your "thing?"
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vokain
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Baby squid are really cool
You're right there! I admit, I was too lazy to do basic research in the early days and a lot of the old wrecks I saw left me cold. Not because they were uninspiring, more that I hadn't bothered to find out more about them. A simple Google search can transform a lump of twisted, rusty metal into something quite special.
The Cosmicist
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Great question, OP. Complex for some to answer... I was drawn to diving later in life than I would have liked. There are so many reasons to love it...
It is therapeutic and cathartic. This runs deep with me.
Exploratory. Educational and mind-opening... Raising your empathy for other humans, animals, and the earth.
It can be as intellectual as you make it. Diving requires attention to detail, planning, your interaction with mechanical and (sometimes digital) technology, study of physics and physiology, and a certain amount of danger must be accepted for dives beyond maybe 30 or 40ft (10-13m). All of that only increases the farther down the rabbit hole you go... And I will go as far as I possibly can.
Also, for me, diving in general is MY thing... No one in my family does it and I love that. In fact, they are all scared of it. I love that even more. I can get away from everyone and everything and let the water envelope me.
I liked diving when I first found it. But I started to love it when I discovered what "tech" diving is. That's right up my alley. I'm not there yet, but I can't wait to cave dive (primarily). I really love seeing wildlife and reefs, but I need to be challenged. I'm going into the earth's black holes.
I do also want to see the great wrecks before they fade away... U869, the Doria, Truk, Scapa Flow, and @Marie13 and @Tracy 's Great Lakes wrecks (they'll be there for awhile), etc.
So for me, cave and tech wreck diving is what I dream about (literally).
It is therapeutic and cathartic. This runs deep with me.
Exploratory. Educational and mind-opening... Raising your empathy for other humans, animals, and the earth.
It can be as intellectual as you make it. Diving requires attention to detail, planning, your interaction with mechanical and (sometimes digital) technology, study of physics and physiology, and a certain amount of danger must be accepted for dives beyond maybe 30 or 40ft (10-13m). All of that only increases the farther down the rabbit hole you go... And I will go as far as I possibly can.
Also, for me, diving in general is MY thing... No one in my family does it and I love that. In fact, they are all scared of it. I love that even more. I can get away from everyone and everything and let the water envelope me.
I liked diving when I first found it. But I started to love it when I discovered what "tech" diving is. That's right up my alley. I'm not there yet, but I can't wait to cave dive (primarily). I really love seeing wildlife and reefs, but I need to be challenged. I'm going into the earth's black holes.
I do also want to see the great wrecks before they fade away... U869, the Doria, Truk, Scapa Flow, and @Marie13 and @Tracy 's Great Lakes wrecks (they'll be there for awhile), etc.
So for me, cave and tech wreck diving is what I dream about (literally).
NeedsWater337
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OMyMy where you from? I’m in Franklin.
Love this question and some of the random responses it has evoked!
Some of mine:
The sound of a healthy, busy reef
Watching fish (esp antheas) scatter when I exhale
Getting checked out by other animals (especially oceanic mantas, hammers, and sea snakes)
Most juvenile animals. Adorable
Watching marine iguanas eat
Keeping one eye on titan triggerfish at all times
The Napoleon complex that's wired into clownfish
Swimthroughs, especially with fish around (love a glass fish swim through)
Feeling tiny against any sort of awesome topography — ridges, canyons, pinnacles, sea mounts (Roca Partida and Boiler!), wrecks
Pretending to be a fish
Ear infections. Kidding
Realising the dive just became a survival mission when a bitch of a current comes along (Alor, ahem)
Wondering how on earth some things evolved
Watching sea stars swim
Boxfishes — big fan of a pout
Watching any animal get cleaned — love a win-win
Watching dolphins and sea lions screw around with everything
When it goes dark because it's so fishy (Richelieu is king for this)
Schooling anything, other than schooling divers
Hot female divers (rare, but what a treat — I'm sure they'd also say hot male divers are rare)
Most pygmies
Seeing something for the first time and wondering what the hell it is
Coming out of a cold thermocline
Being 1 minute from my NDL for half the dive
Any kind of shark, ray, dolphin, or whale
Watching brilliant divers move (Khai Legend at SJ Sipadan — phenomenal, haha)
Any kind of cephalopod
Anything very colourful — to me, blue tangs are so vivid they must have lights in them
Shafts of light
Any kind of colourful soft coral
Galapagos sharks — absolute bosses, and the sharkiest sharks
Anything massive and gentle. Whale sharks and oceanic mantas FTW
Watching giant trevallies hunt their own kind
Good vis
Using a reef hook to watch the show
Diving in places where people don't bang their tanks and poke sea life with their pointers
Diving with people who love diving as much as I do
Probably time to get back to work — I could go on, but I'm getting carried away.
Some of mine:
The sound of a healthy, busy reef
Watching fish (esp antheas) scatter when I exhale
Getting checked out by other animals (especially oceanic mantas, hammers, and sea snakes)
Most juvenile animals. Adorable
Watching marine iguanas eat
Keeping one eye on titan triggerfish at all times
The Napoleon complex that's wired into clownfish
Swimthroughs, especially with fish around (love a glass fish swim through)
Feeling tiny against any sort of awesome topography — ridges, canyons, pinnacles, sea mounts (Roca Partida and Boiler!), wrecks
Pretending to be a fish
Ear infections. Kidding
Realising the dive just became a survival mission when a bitch of a current comes along (Alor, ahem)
Wondering how on earth some things evolved
Watching sea stars swim
Boxfishes — big fan of a pout
Watching any animal get cleaned — love a win-win
Watching dolphins and sea lions screw around with everything
When it goes dark because it's so fishy (Richelieu is king for this)
Schooling anything, other than schooling divers
Hot female divers (rare, but what a treat — I'm sure they'd also say hot male divers are rare)
Most pygmies
Seeing something for the first time and wondering what the hell it is
Coming out of a cold thermocline
Being 1 minute from my NDL for half the dive
Any kind of shark, ray, dolphin, or whale
Watching brilliant divers move (Khai Legend at SJ Sipadan — phenomenal, haha)
Any kind of cephalopod
Anything very colourful — to me, blue tangs are so vivid they must have lights in them
Shafts of light
Any kind of colourful soft coral
Galapagos sharks — absolute bosses, and the sharkiest sharks
Anything massive and gentle. Whale sharks and oceanic mantas FTW
Watching giant trevallies hunt their own kind
Good vis
Using a reef hook to watch the show
Diving in places where people don't bang their tanks and poke sea life with their pointers
Diving with people who love diving as much as I do
Probably time to get back to work — I could go on, but I'm getting carried away.
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