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Why do you SCUBA dive and not spend your weekends playing tennis, or growing orchids, or painting etc.etc.?
I know others have asked a similar question but I'm looking for a slightly different discussion.
I think I know why most of you physically dive, but why did you choose diving from an emotional and pyschological perspective? It isn't the safest past time and it certainly isn't the cheapest.
Are you an 'A' type personality who is all action and adventure, or more of an introverted person who likes the skill's of photography?
Does the aspect of danger and controlling it excite you? Do you love the technical aspect of the equipment [read some of the Hogarthian threads]? Does the sheer beauty of being underwater impact on you so much that you just can't stay away? Or are you just a lousey tennis player?
Be honest and let us know why you part-take in this sport. Some of you will have had scary and dangerous experiences, some of you will be happy sticking to 15Mt. reef dives and others will have been to the edge diving in caves and pushing their skills to the limit - in some cases just surviving, and then returning for more - why? aren't you just tempting fate?.
This same question has been asked of mountain climbers and is often posed after a fatal accident. Many of their spouses say 'I wish they didn't climb, but it is who they are, their make-up and without it they woud be a different person'.
Would you give up diving if your spouse and kids begged you too? [a hypothetical only, my non diving wife is happy if I am happy - but I am sure some of you would have experienced some questions that would have required some deep soul searching].
A quote that points in the direction I hope we will head:
Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the tops of mountains, but to improve the man.
WALTER BONATTI, Italian climber
Let the thread begin!!
I know others have asked a similar question but I'm looking for a slightly different discussion.
I think I know why most of you physically dive, but why did you choose diving from an emotional and pyschological perspective? It isn't the safest past time and it certainly isn't the cheapest.
Are you an 'A' type personality who is all action and adventure, or more of an introverted person who likes the skill's of photography?
Does the aspect of danger and controlling it excite you? Do you love the technical aspect of the equipment [read some of the Hogarthian threads]? Does the sheer beauty of being underwater impact on you so much that you just can't stay away? Or are you just a lousey tennis player?
Be honest and let us know why you part-take in this sport. Some of you will have had scary and dangerous experiences, some of you will be happy sticking to 15Mt. reef dives and others will have been to the edge diving in caves and pushing their skills to the limit - in some cases just surviving, and then returning for more - why? aren't you just tempting fate?.
This same question has been asked of mountain climbers and is often posed after a fatal accident. Many of their spouses say 'I wish they didn't climb, but it is who they are, their make-up and without it they woud be a different person'.
Would you give up diving if your spouse and kids begged you too? [a hypothetical only, my non diving wife is happy if I am happy - but I am sure some of you would have experienced some questions that would have required some deep soul searching].
A quote that points in the direction I hope we will head:
Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the tops of mountains, but to improve the man.
WALTER BONATTI, Italian climber
Let the thread begin!!