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<snip> Now I think what motivates me is to see the things I pictured from sound, and have been amazed with being one ( ohhhhhhhm) with the environment. to see such things like sharks cuda eels turtles lobster and other sea life that with out being a diver and seeing them live in their surroundings, would keep you awake at night form fear. Granted scuba is expensive and I may be poor at the bank but richer from the experience.
I can still remember the first breath I took underwater... and thinking the same thing! It just so happened to be at a YMCA pool as well, only in the 1960s. I learned to swim in that pool before I was in kindergarten.. and had always wanted to scuba dive. It was amazing to breather underwater.. and like you Bob, I didn't want to come up either.I'll never forget that first night in the pool ... this is the coolest thing I've ever done"