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Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 03:40:30 No.166073 View View Reply Original Report

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Hey /out/. I have been lurking here for some time and have yet to see a scuba thread. I just got certified through SSI and I was wondering who else enjoys exploring more than the mountains and woods /out/ usually talks of. Post your pictures and tell of your experiences.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 05:12:29 No.166170 Report

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There are scuba and freediving threads but they don't attract much attention.

I used to be a big hiker but my two big things now are freediving (not spearing, though) and open water swimming. It's really neat to hang with the fishes, I saw a omilu hunting with a moray once. Not to mention turtles, turtles everywhere. I did an open water swim last Saturday and saw like 6 turtles.

I don't have the money for scuba and frankly I deeply enjoy the freedom and challenge of freediving. Sadly it seems 95%+ of all freedivers are spearos. Snorkeling gets pretty much pushed to the wayside as well, though often there is a lot of interesting stuff in 3 feet of water, which pretty much precludes anything but snorkeling.

Hopefully I will be able to start doing underwater photography soon, I don't have a camera right now but I should get one soon enough. I'm actually semi-planning to start up a "fishwatching" and conservation oriented website, maybe get a drive started to expand protection here. I don't know if I'll ever get to it or not, I'm not very good at getting things done. I just think that if people could see what I see, they might understand why protection is badly needed.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 05:19:22 No.166177 Report

Quoted By: >>166183 >>166195

are these worth anything scubadude?

>>they havent been preesure tested recently

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 05:23:33 No.166183 Report

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>>166177

Probably should do that then. They are worthless if you do not know if they are even functional. No sane diver is going to buy a tank that could malfunction while they are below the surface.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 05:27:54 No.166187 Report

Quoted By: >>166190 >>166266 >>166290

How big a part of diving is being able to pop your ears? I love the water and scuba's always interested me but I know it's at least somewhat involved, but I find it really uncomfortable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 05:33:05 No.166190 Report

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>>166187
Equalizing is not exacly popping your ears. It's an easy skill to learn. Really. Go to a pool with a deep end and practice. It's best if you can do it hands-free. It's kinda like swallowing and kinda like pushing air out your ears.

I hear a lot of that, but it really is not hard. You should never feel uncomfortable amounts of pressure, if you do you haven't equalized often enough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 05:43:50 No.166195 Report

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>>166177
Paintball players might buy them. I used to use old scuba tanks to refill my paintball air tanks.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 10:30:18 No.166266 Report

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Well there isn't much to discuss about that... there's much less gearfagging than other activities, even less with freediving. It's actually the reason why I switched to freediving, it feels so much better to enjoy the depths with nothing but a mask, a suit and fins.

I'm still a beginner myself, I just passed the 2 minute mark of safely being underwater without feeling the slightest discomfort. But there's still so much to learn...

>>166187
You could try the Frenzel technique: http://folk.uio.no/gardot/frenzel.pdf
A lot more complex, but much safer, and you can also better control it, which is less uncomfortable than the traditional equalization method.

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Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 11:42:05 No.166280 Report

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Well there was a lot of unexpected interest in the last thread, so I am willing to do a repeat in this one.

For 24 hours in 1998 I lived 25 feet underwater in Florida as part of a NASA experiment. Or rather because I was a family friend, via my dad, with the guy running the experiment. A lot of people who knew him got to go down and stay there overnight. I was one of them, although maybe too young to fully appreciate the experience.

If anyone's curious as to what that would like I am happy to answer questions.

Pic related, the thing I lived in. It's in a musem now.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 11:43:18 No.166281 Report

Quoted By: >>166707

Well there was a lot of unexpected interest in the last thread, so I am willing to do a repeat in this one.

For 24 hours in 1998 I lived 25 feet underwater in Florida as part of a NASA experiment. Or rather because I was a family friend, via my dad, with the guy running the experiment. A lot of people who knew him got to go down and stay there overnight. I was one of them, although maybe too young to fully appreciate the experience.

If anyone's curious as to what that was like I am happy to answer questions.

Pic related, the thing I lived in. It's in a museum now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Jul 2013 12:26:57 No.166290 Report

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>>166187
I don't scuba dive but I do free dive. And you need to equalize a lot. Valsalva maneuver gets increasingly difficult with depth so I recommend reading up on the Frenzel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Jul 2013 03:28:11 No.166707 Report

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>>166281
That's at the space foundation in Colorado Springs now. I was there last week.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Jul 2013 04:35:17 No.166731 Report

Quoted By: >>166745

>>166707

Then you saw how tiny it is. There's no bed either, you sleep in a reclining office style chair.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Jul 2013 04:48:19 No.166745 Report

Quoted By: >>166754

>>166731
Yeah no Joke, My first sailboat had a way more spacious cabin

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Jul 2013 05:07:36 No.166754 Report

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>>166745

It was surprisingly restful sleep though. Part of that was the constant bubbling/hissing noise, the other part was the increased oxygen in the air. It was pleasant overall, but if I was gonna live in one for longer than a day I'd need it to be bigger.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2013 01:05:40 No.167236 Report

Quoted By: >>167252

I am surprised by the amount of free divers here. What happens If you inadvertently exhale or something. If you cough and let out your air, it would be a long way to the surface.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2013 01:17:08 No.167252 Report

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>>167236

Doesn't matter if you exhale, except for buoyancy. Your lungs have already absorbed as much of the oxygen in that breath of air as they're going to. The O2 keeping you alive is in your blood at that point, not in your lungs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2013 22:08:05 No.168269 Report

Quoted By: >>169919

Sup scubabros, just got my SSI stress and rescue cert today. Good times were had except for one part of the swim test that my shop made us do

>having to swim 30 meters at 20 feet deep with one breath in full gear

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2013 16:00:40 No.169919 Report

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>>168269
no 60 feet one breath ascent?

no 400 yards disabled diver in full gear tow?

the sub-surface swim was kind of fun
worst come to worst you pass out and they drag your unconscious whale-body out
but realistically you have enough air to not pass out for 4-6 minutes from the last breath you took
that feel when your lungs start to burn and your bitch brain tells you to surface and you slap it into submission like a boss to make it to the marker

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