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I'd still recommend the Advanced class for skills development and nitrox for comfort and extended bottom time, once you're comfortable with the basics. They're easy to do and I definitely found that I was hooked and eager for more after my first dive. A rescue cert is also a great idea if you end up diving a lot. It's physically grueling because it's a lot of swimming and dragging people through the water and up onto a beach, but not _difficult_ per se. And first aid training is never a bad idea.
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diving is really cool, but I think I'll stay firmly on land and watch cool videos of diving instead 
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I went diving in a cenote- the large freshwater cave systems that dot Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. As far as cave diving goes, it was easy mode- two dive masters for a group of four, no squeezes, and never further than 50 yards from an air source. Swimming through a halocline (where freshwater meets saltwater) was cool, but this was pretty much a one and done thing for me. When I was 22, some friends and I explored this cave- aptly named Hell Hole. I didn’t even do the 90’ rope into a pit but I did do all of the squeezes up top. We made it out unscathed and were pretty stoked on the adventure (we had spent months searching for the entrance) , but a few weeks later I watched the film “The Descent” and had a deep, long think about what could happen to a few inexperienced stoners whose safety plan extended as far as “let’s bring our bike helmets.” I decided I was done with hardcore caving at that point.
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Kesper North posted:nitrox for comfort and extended bottom time, Heehee
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Our college scuba club loaded up so many innuendos for the club shirts that the school forbade us from putting their logo on anything we made. Highlights: “The deeper you go, the better it feels!” Written on a dive flag Certified to penetrate -wreck silhouette with a card that has “WRECK DIVER” barely legible on it Get wet and go deep! -background: angler fish Honorable mentions: Pic: a diver with 2 tanks on their bank Caption: going down on twins Pic: a tank Caption: turn me on and suck me dry Pic: a smiling bubble Caption: keep blowing me Pic: a mask Caption: just spit on it Pic: a dive table with a tec diver breaking it Caption: putting the D in NDL! Caption only: divers do it in the water I mean, I get it. I guess 
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Apr 7, 2024 23:40
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E: lol
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Just figured we’d get a DP after one full of double entendres.
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Elviscat posted:Heehee omg lol. "extended bottom time" indeed
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Bunch of wet bottom nerds itt.
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I did some MWR diving in a German pond when we got back from Afghanistan. They had a knotted rope attached to a buoy that you could use to descend. At the bottom was a skeleton in a beach chair giving a thumbs-up. It was a diving club near Heidelberg. I remember the most novel thing being that it was cool you can stay underwater so long with air and not drown. Saturation diving sounds scary as hell. Doesn’t that job have one of the lowest life expectancies? I heard they end up with novel health problems as they age as well.
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Apr 8, 2024 00:46
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Cave diving in subnatica gave me anxiety. I’m good, thanks.
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but caves are where all of the best treasure is!!!
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Apr 8, 2024 01:34
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Thought you'd all like this with the diving talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZd5yBWvYY it's how NASA tests spacesuits underwater.
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Naramyth posted:Cave diving in subnatica gave me anxiety. I’m good, thanks. Try playing it in VR. Even the shallows ramp up to terrifying super quickly.
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Apr 8, 2024 02:19
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X, the everything app is doing great. 
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Apr 8, 2024 02:44
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Elviscat posted:I think everything underwater has to be divers, probably with umbilicals for air and heat, and yeah, imagine cutting pieces of bridge apart that could fall on you, or spring, or get tangled in your umbilicals..... I’m not an Underwater Dude but I’m worried as poo poo about springing back. This poo poo is difficult as hell when it’s easy geometric shapes that took months on a computer. Weird unplanned shapes underwater? Whatever they are paying, it’s not enough.
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Apr 8, 2024 04:37
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There is one other option, but no one's brave enough to contemplate it
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For a second I thought you wherr gonna suggest using nukes.
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Defenestrategy posted:For a second I thought you wherr gonna suggest using nukes. That’s the only way to be sure.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s...41b8f7714&ei=13quote:In his sentencing memo Thursday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney made it clear why he was letting Tyler Laube off lightly.
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Defenestrategy posted:For a second I thought you wherr gonna suggest using nukes. Operation Plowshare deserves it's moment in the (canned) sun.
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Apr 8, 2024 12:40
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 Half marathon.
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Apr 8, 2024 12:57
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Dude is fit as gently caress. Holy poo poo
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Im just imagining constant hydration
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Antigravitas posted:
I'm tired just looking at that picture
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Not pictured, an EMT riding on a moped 30 feet back with a 5 gallon water dispenser strapped to the back just waiting for the heat stroke to hit...
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Antigravitas posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BqQn5vAcio Same energy
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The chafing alone...
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psydude posted:The chafing alone... The army instilled in me a vigorous dislike of running as an exercise to begin with. Then I found out that serious marathon runners wear pasties because running too long makes your nipples bleed all over your shirt from the chafing what the gently caress is wrong with these people!?
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Apr 8, 2024 15:18
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I am pretty sure when you're running 42km you're clearly past the "exercise is good for you" stage and far into the "being a serious top-level athlete is just wrecking your body" stage.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:26
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Is anyone remotely surprised
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bird food bathtub posted:The army instilled in me a vigorous dislike of running as an exercise to begin with. Hey let's run a race which is famously named because the first guy who ran it loving died from it.
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bird food bathtub posted:The army instilled in me a vigorous dislike of running as an exercise to begin with. I managed to rediscover running as a kind of meditation exercise later on. But the one thing I still can't loving stand is pushups.
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psydude posted:I managed to rediscover running as a kind of meditation exercise later on. But the one thing I still can't loving stand is pushups. The army donated me some hardware when it opened my feet, cut the bones, mushed them around a bit and then used plates and screws to keep them in their new shapes all because of running. I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy it meditatively again so I'm absolutely biased when I always end up circling back around to my original question about runners, what the gently caress is wrong with these people?
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Antigravitas posted:
i've seen motherfuckers like this in every race i've ever run (all three) i'm never doing them again in part because that third race hosed up my hamstrings for a month and thoroughly scared me off long distance running but also running is really goddamn boring
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I feel real bad for those people that got rooms and went to Arkansas and Texas for the eclipse. Can't be me, though. There's not a single cloud in sight in New Hampshire, not even over mt. Washington.
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Reading about these towns of 10,000 people expecting 200,000 visitors nearly gave me a panic attack. What a loving nightmare that's going to be.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Reading about these towns of 10,000 people expecting 200,000 visitors nearly gave me a panic attack. What a loving nightmare that's going to be. It's a mixed blessing. A lot of these towns see only seasonal business, and the eclipse represents an out of season influx of cash that won't cannibalize their regular economy. Also, while it will be a headache, it'll only be a one day headache.
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Running sucks, almost any other form of aerobic exercise is better. What I really want is a place to swim 
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Tiny Timbs posted:Reading about these towns of 10,000 people expecting 200,000 visitors nearly gave me a panic attack. What a loving nightmare that's going to be. Skill issue. I would simply not settle a town in the path of a cosmic event predictable centuries in advance.
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