CT Sean
Contributor
The Self-proclaimed Dive Legend
Conversations about diving when on a liveaboard or in a beach bar in the evening are pretty much unavoidable and, if you can't stand talking about diving, you should probably be doing something else. However there are different types of conversations. There are interesting chats about ground-breaking conservation movements or unusual encounters or discoveries. In other words, interesting tales contain an element of novelty. Sadly, there are many divers who mistake their own banal and unexceptional anecdotes for something of interest e.g. 'Yeah and then on one trip in Thailand I saw not 1 but 2. 2 really big manta rays!!'
This one confuses me as well. As another new diver who hasn't seen seen the likes of even one manta ray, based on your opinion, I should say nothing at all? I don't know anywhere near enough to go on and on about groundbreaking conservation and I apparently have no unusual discoveries or encounters worth mentioning.