The "Freeola Customer Forum" forum, which includes Retro Game Reviews, has been archived and is now read-only. You cannot post here or create a new thread or review on this forum.
Yup, qualified over the weekend after a few dives in cold, scummy, zero visibility lakewater. One of the divemasters there yesterday is encouraging me to meet up with sharks and has provided me with the details of a team in south africa that organise white shark cage diving.
Now, cage diving is interesting because the presence of the cage in the water often causes the sharks to act unpredictably, and they often bite the cage in frustration, which you are holding onto so that the water doesn't batter you against the sides and crush your bones. So, immediately, you have a very good chance of losing fingers. Further, the cages are don't have lids, and white sharks are known to be able to leap right out of the water, and there is technically nothing to prevent them from jumping right into the cage with you. Something could also go wrong, sinking the cage and leaving you as fishbait, or an unexpected surge pushing you against the cage with your arm flailing out of the side like a meatflag.
So, I know I would, hell, I'm insane, but would you jump into the cage with the most notorious predatory "maneater" in the world?
Personally, I wouldn't hesitate.
Now, cage diving is interesting because the presence of the cage in the water often causes the sharks to act unpredictably, and they often bite the cage in frustration, which you are holding onto so that the water doesn't batter you against the sides and crush your bones. So, immediately, you have a very good chance of losing fingers. Further, the cages are don't have lids, and white sharks are known to be able to leap right out of the water, and there is technically nothing to prevent them from jumping right into the cage with you. Something could also go wrong, sinking the cage and leaving you as fishbait, or an unexpected surge pushing you against the cage with your arm flailing out of the side like a meatflag.
So, I know I would, hell, I'm insane, but would you jump into the cage with the most notorious predatory "maneater" in the world?
Personally, I wouldn't hesitate.
Page:
Yup, qualified over the weekend after a few dives in cold, scummy, zero visibility lakewater. One of the divemasters there yesterday is encouraging me to meet up with sharks and has provided me with the details of a team in south africa that organise white shark cage diving.
Now, cage diving is interesting because the presence of the cage in the water often causes the sharks to act unpredictably, and they often bite the cage in frustration, which you are holding onto so that the water doesn't batter you against the sides and crush your bones. So, immediately, you have a very good chance of losing fingers. Further, the cages are don't have lids, and white sharks are known to be able to leap right out of the water, and there is technically nothing to prevent them from jumping right into the cage with you. Something could also go wrong, sinking the cage and leaving you as fishbait, or an unexpected surge pushing you against the cage with your arm flailing out of the side like a meatflag.
So, I know I would, hell, I'm insane, but would you jump into the cage with the most notorious predatory "maneater" in the world?
Personally, I wouldn't hesitate.
Now, cage diving is interesting because the presence of the cage in the water often causes the sharks to act unpredictably, and they often bite the cage in frustration, which you are holding onto so that the water doesn't batter you against the sides and crush your bones. So, immediately, you have a very good chance of losing fingers. Further, the cages are don't have lids, and white sharks are known to be able to leap right out of the water, and there is technically nothing to prevent them from jumping right into the cage with you. Something could also go wrong, sinking the cage and leaving you as fishbait, or an unexpected surge pushing you against the cage with your arm flailing out of the side like a meatflag.
So, I know I would, hell, I'm insane, but would you jump into the cage with the most notorious predatory "maneater" in the world?
Personally, I wouldn't hesitate.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> So, I know I would, hell, I'm insane, but would you jump into the
> cage with the most notorious predatory "maneater" in the
> world?
I can think of a funny joke, but so will everyone else who reads this thread so I'll keep it to myself.
Personally I wouldn't jump into a cage with a shark. I went to an aquarium a few weeks ago - oh, what a life I lead - and I was freaked out enough by a bunch of rays trying to leap out of their tank and eat me. It was like watching a replay of the unsuccessful bits of our evolution.
> So, I know I would, hell, I'm insane, but would you jump into the
> cage with the most notorious predatory "maneater" in the
> world?
I can think of a funny joke, but so will everyone else who reads this thread so I'll keep it to myself.
Personally I wouldn't jump into a cage with a shark. I went to an aquarium a few weeks ago - oh, what a life I lead - and I was freaked out enough by a bunch of rays trying to leap out of their tank and eat me. It was like watching a replay of the unsuccessful bits of our evolution.
I'd love to go diving with Great Whites as they are awesome creatures. They are very inquisitive animals and often investigate things by "tasting them". However a Great White's sample chomp is not something you want to experience. My word of advice is do not dive in a modified Porntrooper helmet; it'll send the Sharks mad and provoke an all out assault on the cage.
Oh and well done for passing your PADI.
Oh and well done for passing your PADI.
Do these sharks have lasers in their mouths, to kill people to death?
Like the ones that secretely had me in their sights when I wandered around Brize Norton?
Like the ones that secretely had me in their sights when I wandered around Brize Norton?
Oh, and well done on qualifying.
Would I go swimming with great whites? Nope.
Why?
*taps legs*
Took millions of years of evolution (sorry godfolk) to grow these and develop lungs and I'm not going to flaunt genetic supremacy by returning to the ocean.
If sharks are so cool, if they're that awesome a creature, let them come to me.
Would I go swimming with great whites? Nope.
Why?
*taps legs*
Took millions of years of evolution (sorry godfolk) to grow these and develop lungs and I'm not going to flaunt genetic supremacy by returning to the ocean.
If sharks are so cool, if they're that awesome a creature, let them come to me.
Congrats on getting the qualification.
Insane Bartender wrote:
would you jump into the cage with the most notorious predatory "maneater" in the world?
Yes
Insane Bartender wrote:
would you jump into the cage with the most notorious predatory "maneater" in the world?
Yes
Goatboy wrote:
> If sharks are so cool, if they're that awesome a creature, let them
> come to me.
Some Great Whites have been known to swim through sewers and attack people when they are are on the loo. One person who was attacked described the attack in vicious detail "it was like something you read on the internet. One minute I was squiting out last night's curried apsparagus and prunes, the next some shark was bitting my ass. It produced an effect equivalent to hitting a cream doughnut with a mallet".
> If sharks are so cool, if they're that awesome a creature, let them
> come to me.
Some Great Whites have been known to swim through sewers and attack people when they are are on the loo. One person who was attacked described the attack in vicious detail "it was like something you read on the internet. One minute I was squiting out last night's curried apsparagus and prunes, the next some shark was bitting my ass. It produced an effect equivalent to hitting a cream doughnut with a mallet".
I went SCUBA diving once. Took me a while to get used to the balast thingy that makes you rise and sink. I managed to rise up right next to a boat and nearly got an oar in the face - like Jude Law in The Talented Mr Ripley. But then I got the hang of it, went to the Ocean floor and found a small squid! Most fun, but that feeling of the huge, empty, dark sea behind you really niggles after a while. Especially in the Mediteranean (sp?).
jumping into the top of the cage? Thats rubbish, i'll sadle them up and ride them to grimsby
monkey_man wrote:
> I went SCUBA diving once. Took me a while to get used to the balast
> thingy that makes you rise and sink. I managed to rise up right next
> to a boat and nearly got an oar in the face - like Jude Law in The
> Talented Mr Ripley. But then I got the hang of it, went to the Ocean
> floor and found a small squid! Most fun, but that feeling of the
> huge, empty, dark sea behind you really niggles after a while.
> Especially in the Mediteranean (sp?).
What psychotic dive guide let you dive without supervision without qualification?
And where was your dive buddy when you were floating uncontrollably to the surface?
Where was your surface marker bouy?
The Mediterranean has an Ocean floor?
Oh, and the "balast" thingy is called a BCD - bouyancy control device.
> I went SCUBA diving once. Took me a while to get used to the balast
> thingy that makes you rise and sink. I managed to rise up right next
> to a boat and nearly got an oar in the face - like Jude Law in The
> Talented Mr Ripley. But then I got the hang of it, went to the Ocean
> floor and found a small squid! Most fun, but that feeling of the
> huge, empty, dark sea behind you really niggles after a while.
> Especially in the Mediteranean (sp?).
What psychotic dive guide let you dive without supervision without qualification?
And where was your dive buddy when you were floating uncontrollably to the surface?
Where was your surface marker bouy?
The Mediterranean has an Ocean floor?
Oh, and the "balast" thingy is called a BCD - bouyancy control device.
Page: