Wall Diving Thoughts

[OE2X]

I will admit that I love diving walls. I have dove on shallow ones and deep ones. It seems that my favorite ones fall into inhuman depths. I have been some places where they drop 5,000' beneath my weightbelt.

Yesterday I found myself on a shallow wall - 150' - but the vis was only 20' or so.

I'm hovering at 80' and found myself being drawn to explore the depths. It wasn't because I was curious to know what was down there, but something perhaps a bit darker. My training kicked in and I only dropped an additional 2' beyond my max. I also reminded myself of my buddy, an admonishment from a dear friend to be safe and my children.

Was I narced? If so - barely. No it wasn't the sirens of Odysseus. It was more of a feeling...

 

[whatdecostop?]

I hear what you are saying.
There is, I'm sure, some medical/physco mumbo jumbo term for what you've described.
.....but for example when you are in a tall building (Empire or Sears) don't you think about what it's like to jump??? Not that you would but the thought crosses your mind. Just like the depths they call you but you don't go.

 

[Kim]

I love walls too. I know that feeling - but that's where it has to be left......just a feeling.

 

[BigBoB]

I have always prefered the bottom of walls to the middle for some reason......

 

[Charlie59]

Some people who want to go to the depths go crazy and buy twin 120s with 3 ponies and actually go to the depths, sort of. If you feel that the desire was pathologic then you probably were narced. Poor viz likely intensified feeling.

Stay safe.

 

[Wijbrandus]

I always want to see what's at the bottom of the wall. You never know what might be down there - someone's dive knife, or a few gold coins from pirate days, or something even older. The lure to check it out is very powerful.

It's not a problem when the wall bottoms out at 100' and you've planned for it, but if that wall's a few thousand feet deep, I wouldn't want to become a permanent part of the collection.

 

[Rick Inman]

Maybe if you would turn right-side-up!...

It's that natural calling of exploration into the unknown, that thing that makes us seekers of the new, the never been done, never been seen... because it's there.

When my wife and I go hiking, she says I always have, "Just-around-the-next-bend-itis." I've just got to see what's around the next bend, and the next, and the next...

That's a part of what makes us want to dive in the first place.

And a little narking added into the mix doesn't hurt, either.eyebrow

 

[TCDiver1]

It was more of a feeling...

Happens to me all the time on wall dives. The deeper the wall, the stronger the feeling and i don't have to be deep, aka narced, to get it. I think it's a natural response for many divers.

 

[OE2X]

Well we have found some of the most amazing walls that I have ever seen here in Tofino BC.

Looks like I'll be staring into the depths again today...

 

[beezwax]

The thing I love most about walls is that having the frame of reference to your side (and NOT having one beneath you) is the closest thing I've found in real life to those dreams where you can fly. A couple weeks ago I was diving a shear wall in a mine pit here. The silt hasn't settled out from meltdown yet-- it's hanging in a thick layer from 0-30 feet-- below that it's clear, but really dark since the silt blocks so much light. By the time we dropped down past 100 feet things were just black. I was above my two dive buddies, and as I watched their dive lights arcing through the blackness below me it felt like spacewalking. Too cool.