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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.
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The plan is certainly to go on and do the advanced, but unlike some people, I don't have rich parents to pay for it all ;)
Pfft, pitiful PADI Open Water Divers. Get the advanced qualification, coupla specialities, trips to the tropics and actually dive with sharks and you shall be worthy of my respect as an equal ;)
Well done, diving rocks.
Well done, diving rocks.
I would dive with the sharks, its one of those once in a lifetime things. It would probably look good on a CV too.
Do they actually let you wear the Star Wars get up during dives?
If someone asked me "where's your surface marker boy?" they'd get a whupping for treating me like a little whelp.
The surface marker bouy is the thing that stops boats riding along right above where you're diving and stops your head getting irritatingly caught up in someone's propellor...
Insane Bartender wrote:
> What psychotic dive guide let you dive without supervision without
> qualification?
Spain. Malaga to be precise, although we went from Malaga to somewhere else to do it. I actually got a really nasty look from the instructor by asking if the forms we were signing to dive were get-out clauses. I thought it was funny.
>
> And where was your dive buddy when you were floating uncontrollably
> to the surface?
My (at the time) 13 year old cousin? He was sinking to the bottom.
> Where was your surface marker bouy?
The what? I have no time for these gadgets and gismos of the diving world.
>
> The Mediterranean has an Ocean floor?
Well, the sand at the bottom of the sea.
>
> Oh, and the "balast" thingy is called a BCD - bouyancy
> control device.
Thanks.
> What psychotic dive guide let you dive without supervision without
> qualification?
Spain. Malaga to be precise, although we went from Malaga to somewhere else to do it. I actually got a really nasty look from the instructor by asking if the forms we were signing to dive were get-out clauses. I thought it was funny.
>
> And where was your dive buddy when you were floating uncontrollably
> to the surface?
My (at the time) 13 year old cousin? He was sinking to the bottom.
> Where was your surface marker bouy?
The what? I have no time for these gadgets and gismos of the diving world.
>
> The Mediterranean has an Ocean floor?
Well, the sand at the bottom of the sea.
>
> Oh, and the "balast" thingy is called a BCD - bouyancy
> control device.
Thanks.
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.
jumping into the top of the cage? Thats rubbish, i'll sadle them up and ride them to grimsby
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?).
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