simonk999
Contributor
So I was at the bookstore the other day, and read through some of "Deep Descent" and "Last Dive"; both, as you probably know, are about deep tech/wreck diving. Both talk about the Andrea Doria as the "Everest" of diving. It got me to thinking: while the barrier to climbing Everest is such that only the physically elite do it regularly, it's only a matter of mental toughness, if that, (which of course, mountain climbers also have) for divers to go deep. In other words, the reason why most of us don't climb Everest is because we can't. Most of us don't dive the Andrea Doria because we don't want to. I mean, I know that a lot of training and experience is required to do deep dives, but nothing holds you back if you have the technical expertise. Now, I'm not knocking anyone who dives deep; what I am saying is that comparing the Andrea Doria to Everest isn't a fair comparison. A better comparison would be to say that deep free-dives are like climbing Everest. I'd compare diving the Andrea Doria to extreme base jumping.