Dive Club coming to Netflix

[Ukmc]

I am a firm believer in the Palmer Inverse Skin Law. The Law states “the more skin visible is the inverse square of the crap I give about being technologically accurate”.

If you put Jessica Alba in a bikini and a scuba tank, I could give a crap about if she has clipped off her safe second properly or is depicted holding a safety stop at the end of a dive. Put her in a DUI drysuit and I want to see her dive plan and know which deco gas she is planning on using.

This is true for science fiction and police procedurals. With Erin Gray in spandex, I could care less about the physics of space travel. Batgirl in a Catsuit? Yeah, Joker can totally rob a bank and go unrecognized.

The problem with this show was not the depiction of diving, but the depiction of these women as girls. They could have used the exact same cast, setting and plot and created a really fun, mildly campy series.

Nobody complained about the age of “high school” actors in Greese or plenty of other productions. Personally, I thought the first season was great
Russian phrases/accents were pretty authentic for a change
wreck penetration scene was pretty lame, but overall, great show

 

[pauldw]

So, this is not a documentary about treasure divers?

 

[Scraps]

One of my OW students is the mother of one of the directors of this series.

 

[Rick Brant]

I'm not sure Grease is a good comparison as the two stars were well-known and were obviously not in high school. And I'm watching the series -- albeit slowly -- so despite my comments I do enjoy it.

Regarding jobs, early in the first episode one of the girls alludes to work surveying coral. The second girl seems disinterested but it does seem like they were doing some sort of underwater assignment.