TSandM:
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the seals are the best thing about diving in the PNW!!!
that would be one of the few things that would get me in the water back there...
Getting photos of seals, octos, and wolfies....
What do you enjoy the most about your diving?
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:shakehead :shakehead
hahahaha
the seals are the best thing about diving in the PNW!!!
that would be one of the few things that would get me in the water back there...
Getting photos of seals, octos, and wolfies....
Not spending all my time looking at forums on computers!
Not spending all my time watching telly and getting fat!
Knowing that no idiot with a mobile phone is gonna ring me just coz he can!
Not getting crammed into as small as space possible cos seven hundred people want to be in my spot!
Not looking at the sea and thinking if conditions were better i could be in there!
Not sitting in an office sweat dripping into my nether regions while life constantly droning on around me and some idiot phoning the help desk asking where the on button on his computer his!
No kids screaming at me.
Feeling free
Feeling alive
Feeling weightless
Chatting to the fishes
Looking at the history
Thinking that thank god 90% of the population dont know what they are missing (selfish I know)
Being me
Peace
etc etc etc I could go on and on and on
Not spending all my time watching telly and getting fat!
Knowing that no idiot with a mobile phone is gonna ring me just coz he can!
Not getting crammed into as small as space possible cos seven hundred people want to be in my spot!
Not looking at the sea and thinking if conditions were better i could be in there!
Not sitting in an office sweat dripping into my nether regions while life constantly droning on around me and some idiot phoning the help desk asking where the on button on his computer his!
No kids screaming at me.
Feeling free
Feeling alive
Feeling weightless
Chatting to the fishes
Looking at the history
Thinking that thank god 90% of the population dont know what they are missing (selfish I know)
Being me
Peace
etc etc etc I could go on and on and on
The descent.
Slowly dropping into a world that will never be exactly the same every time - whether it's the first time at a site.......or I've been there often.
It's like opening presents. You don't know what you've got until you get the paper off and you can see it!
There's loads more I like.......but that's what I like the best.
Slowly dropping into a world that will never be exactly the same every time - whether it's the first time at a site.......or I've been there often.
It's like opening presents. You don't know what you've got until you get the paper off and you can see it!
There's loads more I like.......but that's what I like the best.
rob_za
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Just the fact that I'm underwater where it is peaceful and quiet and all the "crap" of daily life is left behind for a while. Doesn't matter whether it's warm or cold, strong currents and surges or not, good vis or bad, lakes, quarries or oceans, who cares, as long as I'm diving.
Totally into what is going on around me. I am here. This is now. Nothing else matters. Listening to me breathe. Feel the water through my hair (when diving without a hood), feel the current. Being one with the enviroment, wholly. I become at peace with the world and nothing is important anymore except here and now. I drift almost into a trance, still, relaxed, patient, slow.
Knowing that I am a fortunate person and am feeling, experienceing, seeing, touching, what a few other fortunate people on this planet can experience. I am an ambassador of the ocean, and I bring to the surface with me the wonders of the waterworld for others to live through me.
Knowing that I am a fortunate person and am feeling, experienceing, seeing, touching, what a few other fortunate people on this planet can experience. I am an ambassador of the ocean, and I bring to the surface with me the wonders of the waterworld for others to live through me.
I ask myself the same question...
I look out my office window and rain is whipping around, almost horizontal. The roads to our regular shoredives are flooded (so are some of the highways). All the shops have pulled up their boats for the winter. Both water and air are at around 9C (which is unseasonably warm).
I still find myself thinking about taking my gear down to a local beach and going for a shoredive this weekend...just to see what´s there and to enjoy the peace and quiet...because I haven´t made a dive in 2 weeks and I miss it...I think that for lots of reasons diving is addictive and I need my fix...
I look out my office window and rain is whipping around, almost horizontal. The roads to our regular shoredives are flooded (so are some of the highways). All the shops have pulled up their boats for the winter. Both water and air are at around 9C (which is unseasonably warm).
I still find myself thinking about taking my gear down to a local beach and going for a shoredive this weekend...just to see what´s there and to enjoy the peace and quiet...because I haven´t made a dive in 2 weeks and I miss it...I think that for lots of reasons diving is addictive and I need my fix...
brutus_scuba
Guest
For me it is being able to see things in a unique way it goes back to the weigthlessness you mentioned. I love being able to hover around something and see it from any angle I want, and getting as close as I want to examine anything or raising up a few feet above an object and take in something grand as a hole.
More generally though I like that there is no perfect diver and no matter what my reason for getting in the water or how bad the conditions are I know it will make me a better diver and I always like having something to work on. I'm a soccer player too, and I've kicked a ball into a wall thousands of times trying to get my shot just right, diving is the same way. I've spent countless hours in a pool trying to get trimmed out just right, and get my frog kick down and then slow it down and make it sharp. Always more to learn.
More generally though I like that there is no perfect diver and no matter what my reason for getting in the water or how bad the conditions are I know it will make me a better diver and I always like having something to work on. I'm a soccer player too, and I've kicked a ball into a wall thousands of times trying to get my shot just right, diving is the same way. I've spent countless hours in a pool trying to get trimmed out just right, and get my frog kick down and then slow it down and make it sharp. Always more to learn.
no faxes, phones, cell phones, emails, customers, bosses, spouses, needy college kids
ohh wait, that's year round!!! so, OK now we have great viz, slower moving critters, great apres dive drinks, snacks, meals and the priceless look on peoples faces when we tell them we just decorated a Xmas tree underwater
ohh wait, that's year round!!! so, OK now we have great viz, slower moving critters, great apres dive drinks, snacks, meals and the priceless look on peoples faces when we tell them we just decorated a Xmas tree underwater
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