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Not that deep for a diver though?
Of course, trust he took time to decompress when reemerging from that ponder
Are we really going to immerse ourselves into the abyss of "the dad joke." We have drowned there before and I do not care to have to be resuscitated. Perhaps we should be better regulators for one another, recognize that this side discussion has run out of air, and allow it to tank as it should.
My handle was given to me by a friend after I made my first dive to 120' when I was working on my Diver Master certification. I've only made one dive to 130' (which is the limit for diving with normal air because of a pesky thing called physics.) I got nitrogen narcosis at about 135'. It was very disconcerting, especially given that I had a student with me.
Sadly, I have developed a bunch of environmental allergies and am now chronically congested. I had to choose between diving and destroying my ear drums and sinuses. Silly me, I chose health. I really miss diving. Some of my most serene moments have been under the water. Then again, there was the time I was fighting a very strong current of the outgoing tide and almost got washed into the open ocean. Thankfully, my student that time ran out of air about 5-10 minutes before I would have. When we surfaced, I saw that we were only about 2 minutes away from the end of the breakwater. But that's another story.
I hope you took this at an aquarium and not in a restaurant
Yes, at the Shedd in Chicago.
They look much nicer in a pile on the table with some good beer and a ramekin filled with Old Bay. That is my favorite food when I visit my family in Virginia Beach and Norfolk. Some people put corn and potatoes in the crab boil pot. I think that's a waste of space that could be used for more crab.
I'm sure we all have stories, as well as those memories of serenity. Interesting how I think in metres not feet. I was always a fresh air diver, schooled in the cold around Scotland. Wrecks were often in the 25m to 35m range. I have twice been below 50m, once in the Med and another in the Red Sea, the latter as a cover for a free diver. Not knowingly narc'd but had to be alert for that. Some of my best dives less than 15m of course. Have mixed thoughts about underwater photography though. The ones with the kit proved a pain in the ballast ...
My friends and I were partial to wreck diving. There are so many good wrecks in the 60-70 foot/20 metres/20 meters range. We rarely went deeper than that except for training dives. Being deeper is no big deal. Having more bottom time is a very big deal. (For those that don't dive..... We get about one hour of bottom time at 60' but only 20 minutes at 100'.)
Underwater gear is EXPENSIVE, have a friend who has a housing for his DSLR...
What worked for me, in the 2000s I’d had a few Canon P&S and they made housings for this in the $100 range, not a whole lot good photos due to shutter lag but pretty decent videos
A full set of mid-priced quality gear from ScubaPro can cost up to $3,500. There are much less expensive "starter packages" available online but it is still pricey. Unless you live near good diving, the trips are also very expensive. Sadly, the sport has gotten out the range for most people.
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I was part of a group on a live-aboard in the Red Sea which included use of a very good camera and housing with which we had use of for one dive each. I recall being pleased with two shots. Might try finding them just to see whether they really were any good
visited the behind the scenes tiger exhibit and it was one of the tigers birthday so they prepared this special dish for him, and frozen, as they do apparently like to lick ice as well as a longer enjoyment of the treat
In case you were asking, this was the first course
