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What's the deal with scuba divers?

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 18:28:12 No.2580478 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2580635 >>2580640 >>2580855 >>2580885 >>2581222 >>2581261 >>2581298 >>2581322 >>2581793

I got my divers license a few months back and literally every single person I interact with in scuba diving communities is an autocratic, arrogant autists, that's the best way I can describe it
what's up with that? I'm considering learning how to solo dive at this point just so I don't have to interact with these people

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 22:54:18 No.2580635 Report

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>>2580478
I'd say it's a sign they have little to no practical skill/unassisted experience and need to dogmatically rely on the koolaid they drank to feel confident enough to perform whatever action safely. and they likely need that authority because they have none over their own life.

congrats on the certs tho.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 23:00:05 No.2580637 Report

Quoted By: >>2580909 >>2581007 >>2581259

My middle School principal was a rescue diver, and snobby/ arrogant like you mentioned. That attitude is common amongst cops, firefighters, paramedics, sailboaters and fly fisherman. It's a "I'm better than you/ and everyone owes me something for saving your ass"
Oh and people.involved in motorsports

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 23:08:27 No.2580640 Report

Quoted By: >>2580916 >>2583160

>>2580478
Typical of small, niche hobbies. Same shit with HAM operators.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 11:36:27 No.2580855 Report

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>>2580478
>is an autocratic, arrogant autists
explain

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 12:59:39 No.2580885 Report

Quoted By: >>2580910 >>2580914

>>2580478
The fact you call it a "license" already shows to me you are likely a moronic faggot that is generalizing people despite you having practically ZERO experience in the sport or group.

It's not a license it's a certification, there's no legal regulation that prevents you from diving other than insurance restrictions a day policies that shops and outfitters have in regards to filling tanks and chartering boats

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 13:34:41 No.2580909 Report

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>>2580637
>sailboaters, fly fishermen

People who do those hobbies believe they're doing the "pure" version of their respective activities, a sailboater seethes about powerboaters and fly fishermen seethe about reel fishermen. Sailing and fly fishing are also expensive hobbies to pick up so a lot of rich dicks with zero outdoor sense consitiute the "beginners".

I'm sure there are other purist, expensive hobbies that have the same issues.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 13:38:32 No.2580910 Report

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>>2580885
>The fact you call it a "license"
no, I just don't good with technical terms and english

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 13:46:00 No.2580914 Report

Quoted By: >>2580919 >>2581295

>>2580855
like this
>>2580885

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 13:48:18 No.2580916 Report

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>>2580640
All hobbies really, /out/ related or otherwise. That's human nature.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 14:16:11 No.2580919 Report

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>>2580914
Cope harder, I don't consider "rec" divers to be actual divers. The more accurate term would be a air assisted swimming. True scuba divers actual do stay DOWN. "Reccies" as I call them are basically floating bodies in the water and a hazard to navigate.

Until you have done nothing less than 100 150+ deco dives at technical rating and spent no less than $50 on gear, rebreaters you are not a scuba diver, just another Reccie.

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 14:18:30 No.2580923 Report

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>>2580919
Picture related a few weeks ago we discovered a rare Salamander.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 17:10:48 No.2580980 Report

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>2580919
>I don't consider "rec" divers to be actual divers
nobody really cares tho, but cool fishy

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 17:34:40 No.2580990 Report

Quoted By: >>2581125 >>2581301

>ifunny

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 17:38:45 No.2580992 Report

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>>2580910
based esl poster

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 17:46:57 No.2580999 Report

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>>2580909
Sailboating used to be one of the cheapest things you could do for your vacation here in Poland, typical hotel for a familly used to cost 150/200 PLN and to rent a 6.2m sasanka sailboat in Madurai region used to cost 100/150 MAX, I used to get laughed at at school when I said that I spend my time on the lakes and not like other kids, in the towns near the see. It used to be really different back then, people who owned their boats were either very old men who purchased/renovated old German units or 40yo who loved sailing but couldn’t afford the maintenance of a boat so they resorted to renting it out for people like my broke family. I miss those times.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 18:12:40 No.2581007 Report

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>>2580637
>firefighters, paramedics
This must be a city thing. The firefighters and paramedics I've worked with are pretty chill. Usually they seem worn out by all the shit they've seen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 22:40:01 No.2581125 Report

Quoted By: >>2581219

>>2580990
Can someone edit the original im too lazy.

It would be more like,
>always get the bends on the first dive
>dives again anyway decompresses
>Has never followed a dive table in his life
>Always ends with exactly "0 psi" remaining air.
>Has reached depths beyond human physiology

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 02:48:57 No.2581219 Report

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>>2581125
>>Always ends with exactly "0 psi" remaining air.
I feel personally attacked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 02:50:52 No.2581222 Report

Quoted By: >>2581320 >>2583136

>>2580478
>I got my divers license a few months back and literally every single person I interact with in scuba diving communities is an autocratic, arrogant autists, that's the best way I can describe it
Strange. Most of the scuba divers I've interacted with are super chill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 04:29:38 No.2581259 Report

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>>2580637
Sailor/fly fisherman here, I look forward to cucking you further

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 04:33:51 No.2581261 Report

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>>2580478
same reason why a lot of people make their fetish/sexuality their whole personality, it's all they have.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 05:03:56 No.2581262 Report

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>>2580909
>Sailing and fly fishing are also expensive hobbies
Sailing only costs like $400 a year

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 05:29:59 No.2581274 Report

Quoted By: >>2581286 >>2581309

every hobby has ppl like that, but you’ll find someone tolerable eventually
my friend’s dad is a high level technical diver who has gone below 100 meters and deep into caves, but normally he’s a really chill guy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 06:30:46 No.2581286 Report

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>>2581274
Wow he must have found so much treasure

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 07:33:47 No.2581295 Report

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>>2580914
One person on 4chan isn't exactly representative of anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 07:39:27 No.2581298 Report

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>>2580478
The human body isn’t designed to survive at those depths breathing atmospheric air, hence the bends if you fuck up and having to take a break to dissolve out the iirc nitrogen from the blood stream. Basically all this stuff fucks you up long term and that’s before you get into nitrox rebreathing whatever. I’ve never met a normie long term diver, they all end up a bit strange.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 08:07:40 No.2581301 Report

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>>2580990
haha yeah this was me but skiing. Its just giving you so much dopamine/serotonin that you have the same attitude as a drug addict.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 08:16:52 No.2581302 Report

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>>2581298

My dads friend was a professional diver working on rigs, hydro dam intakes and that sorta crazy shit. Not sure if he was a welder or not but he would go down for the whole job and sleep in a habitat, intense shit. He's mad as a meat axe now, not just from being underwater but has a genuine thousand yard stare thing going on from how intense it was and he's a bit autistic. Other than that he isn't arrogant at all he's super nice, just intense. When he talks about doing that work he describes it from almost a 3rd person pov like it wasn't him being a badass he was just along for the ride and got caught up in it, pretty weird.

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Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 08:48:03 No.2581309 Report

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>>2581274
>deep into caves

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 09:23:50 No.2581320 Report

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>>2581222
This has been my experience as well. Divers are way more chill than other groups like skiers and thru-hikers who have their heads up their own asses.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 09:34:52 No.2581322 Report

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>>2580478
Oi mate, you got your divers loicense have ya?

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 02:45:22 No.2581793 Report

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>>2580478
When you get to the tech level, yeah were pretty much all arrogant.. and we are better than you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 16:22:52 No.2582104 Report

Quoted By: >>2583175

>>2581320
Typical Recky mindset.
I guess reckys gives me good practice for underwater body recovery when they call me in for a SAR dive. I can't be too down on them for that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 May 2023 16:09:06 No.2583136 Report

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>>2581222
It’s a mixup between super chill rec divers/instructors and arrogant tech divers. And then you got the DIR fanatics…

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 May 2023 16:41:45 No.2583160 Report

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>>2580640
Lol fuck getting a HAM license. I was thinking about getting one just to learn a new skill but those people are fuckers

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 May 2023 17:23:51 No.2583175 Report

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>>2582104
Clean it up sea-jannie

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