Does diving count as a workout day or a couch day?

[scubafit]

I beg to differ.
Come up here from Carlsbad one weekend and help us to collect purple urchins.
Those are work dives and a workout if there ever was one!

Hi Eric.

Curious about the purple urchins. Why are you collecting them?

There is always a way to train on dry land so that your activities underwater don't feel so challenging.

I might like to join you.

Gretchen

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Hi Eric.

Curious about the purple urchins. Why are you collecting them?

There is always a way to train on dry land so that your activities underwater don't feel so challenging.

I might like to join you.

Gretchen

We're doing purple urchin removal for kelp restoration.
In Sonoma, Mendocino, and Humboldt counties they've increased the limit from 35 purple urchins up to 40 gallons. There is a purple urchin overrun right now and there are vast areas of barrens. The DFW is encouraging people/divers to clear them so the bull kelp can grow back. We are working one particular cove, Stillwater Cove Regional Park in Sonoma County. We have about 100 people signed up as volunteers to do various operations from diving to shore support. Not all 100 people show up to each dive that's just how many are signed up, but we get between 6 to 24 people show up to our dives which are every Sunday weather dependent.
It's all mostly shallow work, but it is hard work, and at the end of the day you're spent. It's very fullfilling and satisfying to see our progress.
Urchin diving is like a combo of pulling weeds and popping bubble wrap. It's actually a lot of fun.
Divers new to purple urchin diving tell us how hard the work is, but we're used to it.
So far since 9/17/24 we have collected 21,231 lbs. in that one cove. The urchins go to people who eat them and the rest go to compost.
Urchin diving is definitely not a couch day, but the next day sure is!
Our Instagram page is @PURP_707

 

[Nemrod]

Should have been a survey . I am voting that most scuba diving is more akin to sitting on a couch and lifting a beer. A real workout , not.

I guess I am getting old, I had some sort of events, had atrial fibrillation and so they put a monitor on me for two weeks. I did have an event with a nearly 250 BPM. And my resting pulse is like 40. So the cardiologists eyes were as big as saucers and he referred me to a specialist, specialist. I am okay, think I was just having my third or fourth mid life crisis. Someday I may get old but not now. He did tell me that my lifelong fitness is why I have such a huge range in my heart rate. Though, I tell you, at 250 BPM, I was not feeling so good and had to sit down in the middle of a shopping center floor while it was going on. And nobody stopped to ask if I was okay, they just walked around me like cattle . After a while, I felt better and got up and went on about my day.