Do you ever think about what you're swimming in?
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Kim:Actually Walter....the question they seem to be asking is..."What is this matter?"
Actually Kim, they are saying, "This is living matter."
xScubaStephx
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as long as i dont get some strange flesh eatting bacteria into my body.... haha, im okay.
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Not to worry, they only live in the springs...............
fairybasslet
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:lol: I never notice that mean streak before.Walter:
What mean streak?
I think about this a lot as of late... Been a lot of reports about the citys sewage department send millions of liters straight in the waters close to where I dive... Victoria BC is one of last places in BC to NOT treat their waste before sending it out to sea...
Finally something is getting done about it though...
Finally something is getting done about it though...
fairybasslet
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:lol:Walter:
caymaniac
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miketsp:There have been a few articles published recently about just how rich the oceans are in terms of life-forms.
"A recent CoML test showed at least 60,000 kinds of bacteria in a single liter of seawater. A single swallow of seawater (boccone) might contain more than 1000 forms of life!"
Not the sort of thing to keep thinking about while floating at the surface waiting for pick-up.
Quote from
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/CoMLVenice.doc
Did you realize that 90% of all living organisms live in the water, therefore, when you are at the surface and see an animal (dog, cat, ect.) you are only observing a part of the 10% of creation that lives where you normaly do?
When I had my Lasik surgery, my doctor talked to me about how long I had to wait before diving. His primary concern was infection. He said he was not so much worried about sea water--it was swimming pools he was afraid of. He gave me two dates for entering the water--sea water and pool water, and the sea water was first.
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