DiveLikeAMuppet
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Mexico is different… I have never been so hungry in Mexico as I get after a cold dive, when it’s freezing on the surface. I think it leads people into eating some really bad food.
Cold Water Diving Diet
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Day-old gas station sushi . . .
Eric Sedletzky
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Well, if Greenpeace shows up and tries to drag you back in the water when you’re trying to exit from a beach dive, then I’d say you’ve probably overdone it.Just have something reasonably decent available to eat after the dive ... a banana, some fast but not too fast carbs, sandwich, anything. Otherwise you will order the triple patty double bacon butty with cheese and end up looking like the local BSAC club, so much blubber it starts attracting the whaling ships.Just joking but not really.
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No No. Nothing raw.....Cooked they're great.
Eric Sedletzky
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Oh!!!
How could I have forgotten this??
UNI !!!
Eat raw sea urchin roe. Slurp that stuff down like your life depends on it!
But seriously, I was like any other normal person once upon a time until I became a freediver.
We used to freedive for hours on end off our kayaks for abalone and to spearfish along the Northern Califorinia Coastline. Some of those days were so peaceful and sunny and the ocean so nice. The swell gently rising and falling and the kelp swaying. The air was fresh and the water clean and brisk.
After several hours we would get low on energy so we would find a place where we would find big red urchins. This was before the purples invaded and the whole ecosystem here went to hell.
Anyway, we would pull about three or four of the biggest reds we could find and paddle into a protected cove that was as flat as a lake. Then we would hop off our kayaks in waist deep water and crack open those urchins using our kayaks as a work table and ocean water as our sink to rinse them (and to season them with natural sea salt). And then we would slurp down the roe. You need to crush the roe with your tongue up against the roof of your mouth to pop the caviar and let the flavors expand. The best ones have a sweet buttery nutty flavor with avacado, infused with flavors of the sea. It’s like kissing the ocean. After about 15 minutes it felt like someone gave you a shot of the most powerful energy boost one could imagine. We were back on our kayaks and back at it for another session.
I never felt such a rush of energy from any other food as I did from fresh urchin roe (uni).
It’s a superfood, and now available in the purples
in impossibly excessive amounts!
This is for real! all jokes aside.
How could I have forgotten this??
UNI !!!
Eat raw sea urchin roe. Slurp that stuff down like your life depends on it!
But seriously, I was like any other normal person once upon a time until I became a freediver.
We used to freedive for hours on end off our kayaks for abalone and to spearfish along the Northern Califorinia Coastline. Some of those days were so peaceful and sunny and the ocean so nice. The swell gently rising and falling and the kelp swaying. The air was fresh and the water clean and brisk.
After several hours we would get low on energy so we would find a place where we would find big red urchins. This was before the purples invaded and the whole ecosystem here went to hell.
Anyway, we would pull about three or four of the biggest reds we could find and paddle into a protected cove that was as flat as a lake. Then we would hop off our kayaks in waist deep water and crack open those urchins using our kayaks as a work table and ocean water as our sink to rinse them (and to season them with natural sea salt). And then we would slurp down the roe. You need to crush the roe with your tongue up against the roof of your mouth to pop the caviar and let the flavors expand. The best ones have a sweet buttery nutty flavor with avacado, infused with flavors of the sea. It’s like kissing the ocean. After about 15 minutes it felt like someone gave you a shot of the most powerful energy boost one could imagine. We were back on our kayaks and back at it for another session.
I never felt such a rush of energy from any other food as I did from fresh urchin roe (uni).
It’s a superfood, and now available in the purples
in impossibly excessive amounts!
This is for real! all jokes aside.
mr_v
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OP, you're overthinking it. I would not dive or perform any physical activity hungry or not properly hydrated. That's about it. Cold water diving comfort mostly depends on the undergarment and dry suit quality. Your attitude will also help: If you don't mind the cold, it does not matter.
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Middle of winter 8-12c no breakfast driving along the coast looking for a site that won't kill you
half the wetsuit on heater on, and back when there were no steps or rails just a track in full gear
That would warm you up, rIght off the point battling the swell and surge that would warm you up
You time it so the ocean spits you out fins strapped to chest and you run before it sucks you back
and straight back up the track if you stop you drop that would warm you up then you drive to the
other side of the peninsula, to the bay, the amenities block for a cold shower combined gearwash
The sun is shining and the people are peopleing and then grab a large pizza with the lot for lunch
Driving and munching on pizza to intermittent views like this, stereo on loud with muffled singing
but better
and another $5.50 large chunky chicken pieces, pizza cheffed by the cousin of the other shop for dinner
Tum tum full ready for some digestion and sleeping to get up at 0600hrs to try do it all again tomorrow
Lucky the pizzas, sometimes three, were cheep!
Lebanese people, the wife looked like "Shakira"
Magnificent!
half the wetsuit on heater on, and back when there were no steps or rails just a track in full gear
That would warm you up, rIght off the point battling the swell and surge that would warm you up
You time it so the ocean spits you out fins strapped to chest and you run before it sucks you back
and straight back up the track if you stop you drop that would warm you up then you drive to the
other side of the peninsula, to the bay, the amenities block for a cold shower combined gearwash
The sun is shining and the people are peopleing and then grab a large pizza with the lot for lunch
Driving and munching on pizza to intermittent views like this, stereo on loud with muffled singing
but better
and another $5.50 large chunky chicken pieces, pizza cheffed by the cousin of the other shop for dinner
Tum tum full ready for some digestion and sleeping to get up at 0600hrs to try do it all again tomorrow
Lucky the pizzas, sometimes three, were cheep!
Lebanese people, the wife looked like "Shakira"
Magnificent!
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