Scuba Diving

Terrible thing to do I suppose, noone ever found out who it was.

First time in the sea today, it was marvellous, saw some really cool urchins, fish and coral. Have got a bad ear though from the pressure but hey, it's worth it, tomorrow we go down to eighteen metres, in fact for a while I just sat on the bottom in the lotus position watching my bubbles rise 10 metres to the surface, it was positively hypnotic I can tell you.

There are still too many fokkin' hippies here though, mind you they'll all be fucking off to the full moon party tomorrow and hopefully taking their juggling ways with them.

I've got one dive left before I leave the island.... the night dive. Unfortunately though I feel shit at the moment, a combination of the early morning start (which was good as we were the first boat at the site) and the deep water I think, in fact I just crashed for a couple of hours in my cabin!!

Last weekend I went diving in Gordon's Bay, about 100m from my house. It was beautiful. I even saw a shark and a cuttlefish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU3eFq3x6BU&NR=1

<3 the ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0CJ2JDlogE&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=50B5336A4DC23389

i like that music in this 1 sounds like zelda

Never saw this thread before! I have my PADI Advanced Open Water cert and have done some great diving in Australia and Hawaii, but ever since moving back to Ohio haven't had a lot of opportunities for diving. Want to get my drysuit and wreck diving training so I can start checking out some the many shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, but funds are tight, so . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

i wld really like to get my cert as well but its p low down on the list. mostly i just think fish are really fukken cool looking & i couldnt find the thread where we posted pix of rad looken ocean creatures

oh man i totally want to get certified

Ha! The Edmund Fitzgerald is WELL below recreational diving limits. Not that it wouldn't be cool!

never watch the real found footage horror of the doomed diver, Yuri Lipski taking a fatal dive into the blue hole at Dahab. I made this mistake last night.

I was diving at the Blue Hole today and after the dives learned another two guys died just last week attempting the same arch swim through as Yuri.

I couldn't see the arch at all from my dive site or depth (relatively modest max 17m; arch is like 55), just an enormous wall of coral to my side and seemingly endless pit of blue below, which was still pretty unnerving, ngl.

It was a really cool dive though! Tons of parrotfish, angelfish, huge crowds of chromis and lyretails, coral packed on top of coral.

it seems when a deep scuba dive goes wrong it goes south really fast, like 20 seconds passes between happy diver becoming desperately fighting a losing battle for their life diver.

〜〜cool stuff seen while diving in/around Bali〜〜

Endless enormous mantas passing very closely

A pod of ~25 dolphins, including young ones

Some VERY CURIOUS and adorable small squid on a couple of night dives; one of them looked sparkly or incandescent, just magical stuff

A few colourful mantis shrimp, didn't see them punch anything though (they are known for very strong punches)

A couple cute cuttlefish

A sweet lil bamboo shark

Adorably gormless GIANT Frogfish, yellow and black varieties

An electric/disco clam!

Huuuge pufferfish

A yellow weedy rhinopias, which just looked like coral to me but was VERY EXCITING to the dive guide because they are very rare to see

Lots of turtles

Only ONE octopus, and even then only a single shy tentacle and a nervous eye. These are my fav but I hardly ever get to see them.

Oceans are so cool

And also terrifying