DEEP SEA & SPACE

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>>17495657

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>Work on cargo freighters
>See a ship one day on the horizon
>Look away for a few seconds
>Look back and it's gone
>No where it could have disappeared to
>Nothing it could be hidden behind

>With friend on the deck one day
>See huge dark mass go under the ship
>Ask friend if he saw it
>Says "You saw it too?"
>Run to other side, don't see anything

>Last week
>Whale comes up beside the ship
>Does that backflip thing they do and crashes back down into the water
>Never think about the fact there's an entire other world right beneath me filled with those giant creatures and there could be countless others we've never even seen

I have a phobia of deep water and tentacles.

Scare me.

>>17495980
>>See a ship one day on the horizon
>>Look away for a few seconds
>>Look back and it's gone
>>No where it could have disappeared to
>>Nothing it could be hidden behind

You mean nothing besides the horizon?

>>17495990
Would have implied the horizon was about 3 miles away, given I was standing roughly some 100 feet up or more that would give me a sight radius of about 8-12 miles.

Considering I could make out details like it had cargo on it, could tell it had a red and blue flag and was a modern freighter it was not far enough away to be hidden by the horizon.

>>17496004
cold water mirage perhaps? they are known for making far away objects look big / close.

>>17496014
It's a possibility, but still eerie.

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>>17495988

sometimes the sea bed can be covered in hundreds of these

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>>17495988

>>17495730
That is so cute, I'd pet that adorable whale-shark :33

>>17496102
ye that one got me scary fucker

>>17495719
>Subnautica
Mah boi

>>17496102
>Hello
>Fremb

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Anomalocaris, part the first: Appearance.

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>>17496285
Anomalocaris, part the second: Size comparison.

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Cookie cutter shark, part the first: Kekking faces.

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>>17496293
Cookie cutter shark, part the second: cookie cutter bites.

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Obligatory. I've taken the liberty of providing the one without Cthulhu, I.E. the one that isn't shit.

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Bobbit worm.

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Adorably lethal Glaucus Atlanticus

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And a pig butt worm to round it out.

>>17496306
The pressure in the Mariana Trench is the same as in the barrel of a handgun when it's fired.

>>17496323
Shouldn't you not put them on your skin?

why do nigga care more about space than whats on our own shitty planet?

>>17496348
Probably not, I don't know. I do know that they get their toxin from their food, not from their own body, so maybe the one in the picture was a juvenile or raised/bred in captivity.

>>17496358
What led you to that conclusion?

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Used to do saturation diving. I did work on oil rigs. It's pretty spooky down there. No particularly "spooky scary seamonster" stories, but it's not a nice place.

For one, it's dark as a MOTHERFUCKER. Pitch black and your lamp barely goes more than a few yards effectively. The water is filled with particles so it's kind of like shining a light into smoke. It's seriously like being in a void and the only things in this void are you and the rig. I never disconnected from it longer than I had to. It just feels like you can fall forever.

As for spooky scary seamonsters, I never really saw any. Don't get me wrong, you see shit a lot. The mixture you're breathing combined with the pressure can and will fuck with your senses. More than a few times I saw something big and fast moving just beyond my light. Sound doesn't travel well in water but you can hear the rig popping and other shit, always really deep tones.

You see a bunch of really weird fucking fish though. No joke, divers usually see a lot of fish that aren't identified. The aquanauts have to do that but they can never get the funding to come down and see what we see, so we just live with the aliens. We named a few but you don't really see them often and rarely more than two or three times. Some fish are drawn to the lamp, but others stay the fuck away from it.

>>17496266
More like Subnightmare.

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>>17496425
please, more deep aqua-details

>>17495665
Easy to forget just how fucking huge the "gentle giants" of the sea are.

>>17496425
Cool stuff, I heard the pay is crazy good for that job

>>17496444
Well, there's a lot to tell and I don't really know what to focus on. I think the most interesting is what the mixture and depth does to your brain. When you've been out in the water for a while and literally only you and the piece of metal you're clinging to are the only things that seem to exist, your brain tries to fill the void. At least, I hope it was my brain doing that. The rig popping is really ominous because it's like a bass drum that's all around you and the only sound in almost absolute silence. You can see things moving in the dark and when you look at them, your lamp only goes ten yards or so and all it's hitting are the particles in the water. This happens a few times and you're certain you're not alone down there. You feel like you're being hunted. A lot of guys die because they try and rush and that's something you can't do underwater, no matter how much you want to. You kind of got to get it in your head that "well shit I hope it doesn't eat me" and keep working. It can be hard not to panic. They teach you tactical breathing both to conserve and to keep you from losing it. You start focusing really god damn hard on that tactical breathing when you swear you saw something on the edge of your vision, felt the water move against your back, and heard the shift.

>>17496463
The pay is very good because it has the highest fatality rate in the market. It's a pretty dangerous job, not to mention it kind of generally sucks and is bad for your health. I don't do it anymore, but it's an easy job to get with the right qualifications and you can make bank.

>>17496525
nice, love it

>>17496428
More like Shockers: The Game.

>>17496425
Awesome story, you do a good job conveying the blindness of the depths. To clarify:

>Sound doesn't travel well in water but you can hear the rig popping and other shit, always really deep tones.

Sound travels fine through water - better than air. Compression waves go faster through denser material. The problem is the pressure of the water, along with the density and sound speed, means the intensity of a noise is greatly reduced.

http://www.dosits.org/science/soundsinthesea/airwater/
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/sound01/background/acoustics/acoustics.html

>To compare noise levels in water to noise levels in air, one must subtract 26 dB from the noise level referenced in water. For example, a supertanker radiating noise at 190 dB (re 1µPa @ 1m) has an equivalent noise level in air of about 128 dB (re 20µPa @ 1m). These numbers are approximate, and amplitude often varies with frequency.

The ocean is quite noisy, but all the noise is too soft and deep for us to hear. Couple sounds from the Challenger Deep hydrophone to set the mood:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/04/469213580/unique-audio-recordings-find-a-noisy-mariana-trench-and-surprise-scientists

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>>17496328

>>17496525
What certs do you need? Ow. Deep diving. Nitrox or whatever its called? I want to dive.. But have to come across personal anecdotal accounts

>>17496309
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>>17497136
Interesting! Thank you for clarifying the science behind it. Learn something new every day.
>>17497461
Commercial diving cert and closed bell training. Welding and underwater welding certs too. I hear some employers actually offer it, since it's a job that always needs new people. Mine didn't, though. I got it myself. There are a few more that help too and each job is a little different. When it comes to certs, the more the better.

We do use nitrox, since it's better for the pressure, but it'll fuck with your head after a while as I detailed.

It's not a bad job for the pay, but it's kind of like the military. It sounds cool, it's got some good perks, and you get some cool stories, but it also sucks pretty hard in practice.

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Bump

Does anyone have the full recording of the Mariana Trench by NOAA's experiment? I would love to listen to it as white noise as I sleep.

>>17497768
were you in the military? were you a navy diver or something?

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Giant Ammonite fossil shell

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>>17498078
Yes and no. I was air force, actually. My job had very little to do with the water as a loadmaster.

Another story came to mind overnight: I was out doing my job one time in the absolute darkness of the void. I had been out a good thirty or forty-five minutes when I saw something swish over the top of my vision really fast. I looked around, couldn't see anything. Spooked me good and so I just focused on my tactical breathing and not losing my fingers. A minute passed and I saw something go a little behind the pylon and down. I was 100% sure it was a kraken or some shit. Another minute passes and then this two or so foot fish comes swimming up to me. Weird looking motherfucker. Pale and long and skinny with BIG eyes and a bigger mouth. It just kind of darted around me for a bit, just hanging out with me while I worked. When I was done, he took off. Cool fish bro.

I told the story to a buddy of mine and he suggested that the fish hung around me because of my light. A lot of things don't approach the light down there. He was probably using me for shelter from something bigger and meaner. How terrifying.

>>17496425
horrifying

>>17496102
why is it looking at me like that?

>>17499551
Because you look delicious.

>>17499216
seeing it's seth mcfarlane in the pic it's obvious not a real ammonite and something for a movie
or tv show

I can't wait to start freediving!

>>17496119
>tfw no qt whale-shark to cuddle and kiss sweetly

>>17496058
>>17496004
>>17496014
>>17495990
Ghost ships make my dick hard.

>>17499589
T-thanks
[spoiler]~[/spoiler]

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>>17497522
Tremors you say?

>>17497824
>Not posting the Druid version

>>17496306
That's awesome actually.

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>>17499240
Have you seen the fish that the legendary deep sea welder spoke about in that old sea thread from years ago? The Pliosaurus?

>>17499240
More more more!! I'm loving these stories.

What made you quit? Do you know any1 that has died?

>>17499240
Do you have any pictures?

>>17499613
That is not Seth McFarlane.

so many big things under the surface, metaphorically speaking?

>>17499775
You have any idea what a rock that size weighs in general? It's obvious as hell that it's fake. Have some Common sense

>>17499801
Yeah it is most likely fake but that is still not Seth.

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>>17499727
Negatory. If it's out there, I don't want to meet it. I have always been perfectly fine with avoiding the prehistoric monsters.
>>17499744
I quit because I decided to wise up and use my free gubment money and go to college on the GI Bill. The pay was good but the only place it could really get you was dead eventually. Yes, I know of many people who died and I personally knew two. One panicked while he was working, as I understand, and fucked himself up. Getting hurt down there is a death sentence. You can't get back up in time to get patched up. My other buddy died because they fucked up his mixture. You can't put too much oxygen in the tank because it doesn't react well at depth. He went down and had a seizure due to it. Big investigation after that one.

I think the closest I ever came to dying was when I went on an excursion, which is where you go to a different depth than the bell is at, and was about to come back up when I got tangled in my gear really bad. I lost track of it as I went back and forth around the pylons. Normally it's pretty easy to get out of, but it got caught under my helmet which is bad for a variety of reasons. Also, when you're tangled and it's not taut, you can fall or rise without noticing. So basically I had to carefully unweave myself without snapping any harness or locks while I fell into this bottomless abyss. It was actually pretty terrifying. Tactical breathing at its finest. I obviously made it out okay.
>>17499762
Not anything underwater. It's really, really hard to find cameras that work under 150 meters and they're super expensive, as I understand. I guess you could get a case but I never really thought to.

>>17499854
I did decompression diving, but never saturation. I've always thought you guys were whacked in the head. You'd have to be to live in a diving bell and huff heliox, right?

>>17499854
Is this what you did?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF6usV-LZTs

>>17499854
What brought you to the job? Was it the money?

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spoopy

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>>17499909
Yes. Our heliox had some nitrogen in it though to get past HPNS, so we use nitrox and heliox interchangeably as terms. As I said, it pretty much sucks in general. The bell is tiny and claustrophobic and going outside is no better. Pays good though. Would I recommend it? Maybe, if you feel brave and are willing to risk. Would I do it again? I wouldn't give up the experience but I don't see myself going back to it. Better things to do with my life, I think. Prolonging it, for one.
>>17499915
That's about the depth we usually worked. Almost always hovered around 300 meters. We could go on excursions higher or lower. Some teams go down to 600 meters, I hear, but I never did. Shit's crazy. But yes, that's what it was like. That video is good at explaining what I meant by how it looks like shining a light into smoke. The schools of little fish were always fun too. The big ones don't like the light so they shelter around you which is, as aforementioned, actually a terrifying thought.
>>17499929
The money, yes. I got my diver's license while I was stationed in Kadena and wanted to do something with it when I got out. I was just fearless and invincible enough to dive into the deep end, so to say, and go for a saturation job in time.

>>17499957
Your stories were amazing, I'm almost thinking that you took it out of a book - either way, it's very captivating - do you have any more interesting days on the job to share?

How long did you do the job for?

>>17499980
Thank you! I did not take them out of a book. One of my actual passions is writing and so I try to incorporate it whenever I'm telling a story. I did it for two years and seven months. I didn't actually plan to do it as long as I did, I really originally just wanted to make back the money I spent getting my certifications and then a little extra to pad my pockets. However, I guess the military made me used to the suck and helped me appreciate the pay and benefits I was getting. Plus, at the end of the day, I gotta admit it was a pretty cool job. Probably the closest thing I'll ever get to being an astronaut!

>>17499957
What kind of mix are you on at those depths? At 150 meters the technical diving O2 PPA limit of 1.2 would be a little under 9%. That would require a whole lot of helium filler - I can't imagine what your gas bills would be.
Did y'all have rebreathers?
I'm fairly new to the diving world compared to you (working on my assistant instructor cert right now). I'm fascinated by the deep stuff I'll likely never get to do due to both my horrendous SCR and the rising cost of helium.
With prices for helium being what they are right now and my gas use, it'd cost me around 75 bucks a minute just for gas at that depth.

>>17500000
nice penta there diving god

>>17500000
Would the darkness be describes as a dark room or something much darker? And would you have to be pretty athletic to work a job like this since your probably lugging around heavy equipment?

>>17500000
thank u based dark penta lord for ur tales of horror

>>17496306
The Bismarck is deeper then the Titanic really? That kinda sucks.

>>17496071
What are those?

>>17500000
Thank based quints

>>17500003
We didn't use rebreathers. I hear they are actually started to be used today for deep diving but we did open circuit. Our mix would vary on depth. On my last dive, we used trimix 10/65/25. We'd never raise the nitrogen over 30% though. Trimix is a big one that's starting to replace heliox since it's cheaper and good for HPNS. If you want to try saturation, try getting a cert and see if you can't get on a ship. Usually about 1/10 of the ship are divers and, while it's competitive, it's not that hard to get if you're qualified.
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>>17500066
Nice dubs boss.
>>17500014
Put your hands over your eyes. Now shut your eyes tight. That's how dark it is without the lamp. It's very much like working in an abyss. You have to be both very fit and pretty smart. The gear you're carrying is very heavy and sometimes you have to carry parts that weigh a stupid amount, like when you're working on pipelines. If you recognize the lingo, you'll definitely get good enough at swimming to pass the PJ PASS test for AFSOC (which I've considered trying out for since I got out).
>>17500019
You're welcome!

>>17500114
sounds like an interesting life. what do you want to do next?

>>17500114
What do you do know that you're no longer doing saturation diving work?

>>17499854
>I obviously made it out okay
How can we trust that you aren't a ghost?

>>17500153
Because fuck off? Retard.

>>17500123
I want to get my TEFL cert and teach English overseas. I traveled a lot as a loadmaster and I want to again. Once I get it, I'm probably going back to Korea (again) with TALK since it's the easiest place to get a job, though I wouldn't mind China since I haven't been there.
>>17500145
Finishing up my associates. I took a shit ton of CLEPs while I was in the Air Force and got to 45 credits. Just a few more and I'll have an associates and then it's on to the next thing which is, hopefully, the aforementioned TEFL cert and teaching overseas. High socks, high motivation and all that stupid moto shit!
>>17500153
I can't really prove I'm not a ghost so you'll just have to take my word for it (which is exactly what a ghost would say). If I was a ghost, I hope I'd be doing something other than spending my nights browsing /x/. Like maybe living in your mirror or something.

>>17500041
It's a starfish made of tentacles I believe.

>>17500175
more bedtime stories senpai plz.

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>>17500145

>>17500173
Do the gene pool a favour and walk in front of a bus. Our descendants don't need your autism.

>>17500175
were you ever suicidal down in the abyss?

>>17500214
lmfao saved

>>17500175
Did depression ever hit you? Considering the whole dark-lonely theme going on with just you and the darkness.

Also was there any defining moment that made you quit the job? Any moment that made you feel "fuck this shit, it's not worth it"?

>>17500175
So what kind of diving suit do you have for these depths? It would be way easier for me if I had some kind of exo suit between me and the water but in just a Neopren I think I'd get a panic attack if I felt as much as the tiniest tickle

>>17500175
senpai? did u leave us?

>>17500207
Let's see... alright, I got one.

We went down on a pipeline and were putting bolts in. Not like the little bolts on your vehicle. I mean HUGE FUCKING BOLTS that weigh something like 80 kilos. Obviously we weren't actually physically carrying them the whole way cause we'd sink like rocks. We'd do like 50m-100m of this pipeline by hand like this. I think we had been out of the bell two hours, just us and the pipe in an eternal expanse of nothingness. We had stopped to take five, just kind of resting there underwater when we were very suddenly and very wholly swarmed by a school of small fish. Scared the hell out of me at first before I realized what was going on (and that they weren't running from anything). It was actually beautiful, watching all these tan and teal little-fish dart around us, like being stuck in a living cloud. They brushed by our helmets and would sift through your hands. Absolutely lovely. Eventually, however, they had to be on their way and we got back to work. That's probably one of my favorite moments doing the job.
>>17500216
>>17500231
I've always been a bit emotionally stoic so it never bothered me. I can say that the military's whole "oh god please don't kill yourself that press is bad for us" nonsense spoke to me but really... meh? I don't have problems with small spaces, I liked the isolation, and I was good friends with the guys I went down with.

I think what got me to quit was a mix of things. One, I felt kind of gridlocked in life. I knew that the job didn't often last to a retirement, unless you considered a pine box as such. I also felt stuck in place. I missed traveling, I missed the sense of advancement that CDCs and ribbons and rank gave. Plus, when Martin (the wrong mixture guy) died, that kind of sealed it. So I decided to move on. See what more I could force out of life.

>>17500216
>>17500231
(Cont)
That's not to say everyone took it so well. Some guys had to get out because they just couldn't handle the life. It feels kind of like being on an alien planet. Lonely. Not everyone handles it well.
>>17500241
Atmospheric suits are what you're talking about. Nope, never used those. One, they're SUPER expensive and, two, I guess they always seemed unnecessary. If you were going really deep, I mean like 600m, I could see it. We never needed them though. We did have our helmets. You don't want the water pressing on your eyes or ears.
>>17500288
No, my child.

>>17500309
Can you tell me about diving bells? I know the very basics of what they are, but I have no idea what they look like, how big they are, how long you can stay in one, and why they are necessary/why you couldn't just go up and down from the surface all the time?

>>17500309
Ever use hydreliox? If I remember, that's for way the hell down there where the bubbles are very quiet, and probably only on closed circuit.

>>17500309
Ive always had a huge fascination with a career in this, or marine biology. How do the two differ? My biggest fear has always been the lack of control we have, the amount of control they have, and the fact that weve explored more space than sea. Honestly, its entirely believable to me that Mermaids or aliens or something exists down there when we havent even reached a depth halfway! Was also curious, do you carry a blade or a harpoon or anything in case of a predator? I know id feel more confident even tho we cant swing it fast enough lol.

>>17496328
I'd smash.

>>17500293
"It was actually beautiful, watching all these tan and teal little-fish dart around us, like being stuck in a living cloud. They brushed by our helmets and would sift through your hands. Absolutely lovely. Eventually, however, they had to be on their way and we got back to work. That's probably one of my favorite moments doing the job."

please become an author. i would worship you.

this is coming from a guy that enjoys the likes of Vonnegut, Sartre, Camus, Pynchon, Shakespeare, etc.

>>17500309
Do you mind me asking how much you were paid for this type of work?
It is absolutely fascinating and terrifying. Makes me think of a space sci-fi horror movie.

>>17500309
So you just wear Neopren and a special diving helmet?

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>>17500349
Basically a diving bell is dry and pressurized. It keeps us at the pressure we need to be so we can work. They're necessary because a general rule of diving is that, if you surface too fast, bubbles form in your brain and you get the bends, which is pressure sickness. It's bad. At the extreme depths we work at, reascending safely would take a looooong time so they keep us down there to live while we work. Keeps us at the pressure we need to be at. As to how long you can be down? Hm... I guess indefinitely, but no one would want to nor would they make you. Ours was umbilical fed. I guess until you ran out of food. As to what it was like, it's a big pod with one room. It's pretty cramped.
>>17500356
Trimix is the big one now for the cost. I've never personally used it but I have heard of it. It's big on research dives.
>>17500364
We do blue collar work while marine biologists do research. When it comes to control, you're right. As I said way up there, we see a lot of fish that haven't been documented because the marine biologists can't get grants to come down and see for themselves. Both jobs are a "go here and do what we say," but marine biologists are usually down for shorter amounts of time and have to beg, borrow, and steal to get a chance to go under. We're MADE to go under.

I always carried a dive knife. No tip so I don't stab myself. It was mostly meant to cut myself out of tangled lines, but I always had it in my head that it's something better than my hands just in case.
>>17500394
Thank you. I actually have written a book but I'm still editing it. I hope to release it one day!
>>17500407
About $65k a year, though I've heard the REALLY dangerous and experienced stuff can reach like $200k. It's definitely a good setting for a horror movie.
>>17500435
Pic related. Our vests were different and our helmets yellow, but this was basically it.

>>17499727
>Have you seen the fish that the legendary deep sea welder spoke about in that old sea thread from years ago? The Pliosaurus?
>pliosaurus
>saurus meaning "lizard", a reptile
>fish

Retard.

>>17500454
STORIES STORIES STORIES !!!
MORE STORIES GRANDPA

>>17500454
We used some trimix, but it's too expensive for recreational deco dives now.

>>17500492
Just how far along the spectrum do you rate?

>>17500454
I'm a recreational diver (max depth was 120 feet so pussy shit for you), and those camera shells are like 8k, and they're probably not rated for beyond 30 meters.

>>17500511
Always Unique Totally Interesting Sometimes Mysterious.

>>17500454
How big was it? Like compared to the size of a hotel room, maybe. And how long did you usually stay down there?

Also, the idea of seeing all sorts of weird fish unknown to science is super cool to me.

What's the weirdest thing you saw?

>>17500454
>About $65k a year

Is that all? You made $15k more than I do (museum assistant curator) and it's infinitely more dangerous.

>>17500506
>Just how far along the spectrum do you rate?

He's right. If you don't understand the difference between a reptile and a fish then you should never be allowed to breed.

>>17500501
I haven't told any really spooky ones yet because all of my personal ones are just the atmosphere of being down there; deep rumbles and absolute darkness combined with visual mixture hallucinations with no real payoff. Every diver has heard "the stories" though.

I think my favorite is the oldie of the diver goes down in the bell. He exits with his partner into the complete and utter darkness, slipping silently through the deep. They reach the pipe and begin to work. Eventually, they get down to the last bolt and they realized they forgot one! The partner goes back and the other stays, waiting. He watches his friend's lamp fade into the all-encompassing darkness until it's nothing more than a bulb that soon slips out of view. Minutes pass and then the light comes back, quickly making its way towards the diver... perhaps a little too quick. It seems to sway left and right. The diver, unnerved by the display, flashes his light twice before turning it off, hoping to get a response. Nothing. He sits in the complete and utter darkness, watching the light grow closer and closer. There's a deep moan in the water and all he can do is sit still, watching this light glide through the void. It goes around and passes him, moving off further and further away. The diver, unsure of what to make of this, turns around and sees another light. He flashes his lamp again and this time it is answered. He waits until his partner links up and asks what the signal was for. The second light is gone. The two finish their job and return.
>>17500502
Really? I hear Heliox is way more expensive than trimix because the higher helium percentage. Or do you actually use hydreliox? I'd be surprised if that was cheaper.
>>17500507
Yeah I didn't know much about the camera stuff outside that they were super expensive.
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>>17500544
Like the size of a walk-in closet. There are underwater habitats that are much bigger too, but bells were what we used.

As to the weirdest thing I saw? Probably this eel-looking fish with fins on its side. It had these really sharp angler-fish looking teeth and it looked to be blind. It was really pale with brown stripes running down its length. I only saw it for a few seconds. It swam up to me while I was hammering. The way its fins and sail(?) shimmered and wove reminded me of a flag in a calm, steady breeze. I named it the Sanibel, since that was the last town I was in before heading out to sea. It reminded me of the flags on the town hall in the summer night, billowing in the wind.

>>17500548
I was kind of with a shit company. Most saturation divers who go to my depth make $120k, but I was contract and didn't research enough. Some who go to 600m can make $240k-$300k. I don't mind the danger. As Dr. Hossain remarked, the human condition is denying that he will die.

>>17500000
beautiful

>>17500589
air force, diving, author, and english teacher? why?

>>17500192
What..?

>>17495730
>mmrrrffffff... fucking move, you midget

>>17500697
He's the next Indiana Jones of the fucking sea.

>>17500589
Do you have a name you'd like to go by? About to mark down history.

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>>17500589
Here's just an image of reference

>>17500589
You are the man.
All the way from Mexico,
Cheers!

story anon pls be single

Slovakia here, I hope you'll be shipping your book to Europe also anon, keep up the good work.
Have you played the videogame Soma? There was a part that was relevant to this thread.

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>>17500589

Just a random private here but I have to ask: How weird is it having been both a load master AND a saturation diver. You have lived in both the great expanse and scale of the sky aswell as the dark claustrophobic deep. Any thoughts on that dichotomy?

>>17496083
man that squid looks high as fuck

>>17500976
>Indiana Jones adventure story underwater
>Going through underwater temples and sunken cities
>Places that should not be, whose builder pray for Father roaming free
God damn, I think I just got a movie-boner.

Something like Abyss or Sphere, but not lame.

if you like underseastuff and action games, check out the game Bioshock

cool stuff, creepy tho

not trying to advirtise juet sharing something

>>17500589
What's the field of view like on those helmets? it looks... constricting to say the least.

>>17500589
you mentioned technical breathing. Im assuming that since you're diving tri-mix, and that you're at such a depth, you don't have to breath as heavily. I guess my question is, does you're technical breathing method involve taking less full breaths? And how difficult was it to learn the breathing technique? thanks, great story. As an aspiring marine biologist, I hope I get the opportunity to go down either in a submersible or saturation and experience the deep first hand. I guess I'm a bit crazy too

>>17500589
I really enjoyed reading this, however im not scared by the depth but im fascinated by it. How can one get in this type of job?

>>17500589
What's the longest time you've spent reascending? And do you sleep in the bells?

>>17500589
I've always loved the ocean and diving in particular. While I'm not SCUBA certified, I free dive a lot, and some of the dives I've had in the waters of New York (where I live) sounded like some of your stories. I'm graduating high school in a few months, and I am planning on attending a Coast Guard academy in the hopes of achieving a deck license, then the army afterwards. I was just wondering how you got into the business, and what sort of qualifications you need. Thank you!

>>17500184
>Filename
Sides confirmed destroyed

>>17500589
I once knew an absolutely charming gentleman who had worked as a saturation diver in the North Sea for something like 30 years, sadly I didn't have the opportunity to hear too many stories, however this was mostly down to a brain tumour he was battling at the time and also dealing with PTSD from surviving the Piper Alpha disaster - a truly amazing chap and excellent storyteller

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>>17500589
The fish you saw sounds like some sort of grenadier

>>17500697
honestly, this.
You've had an amazing and interesting life, stick with it.
Go to africa, get drunk, get in fights, take no shit. Write about everything. Spit in the face of danger, bring back the stories.

You're like fucking Hemingway man. God knows we could use another one.

>>17500454
Would you go out of your way to document that potentially unknown fish? Do you do salvaging work, or marine documention or what specifically? I imagine having the knowledge, youd do all of the above. Man you seem so calm and collected about everything. I wish i was that chill with things. Pot wouldnt help with those dives thats for sure! Very smart, i reckon its on your belt in a case, and if something more threatening comes you are supposed to calmly rise correct?

>>17501458
Except Hemingway's prose was god tier. Divebro's is alright but not fantastic

>>17501472
He didnt really get ramped up writing until 25-30. Im not sure how old divebro is, but give him some time.

Saying to someone:
"you're not currently as good as one of the best ever, you'd better give up and aim lower" is fucking stupid and you know it. Encourage people with talent, don't destroy them.

>>17501472
Given that Hemingway had written multiple stories and had years and years and years of writing experience, while, as we are told, Divebro has only written 1 book.

>>17501477
I didn't tell anyone to 'give up and aim lower' and 'you know it'. Fucking faggot, go project somewhere else.
I wish Divebro best of luck and would definitely buy a book that he wrote but as I currently see it, he's no Hemingway (from a purely technical persepective).

PLEASE MODS ARCHIVE THIS, DIVEBRO'S STORIES NEED TO STAY ON THE INTERNET FOREVER.

I want to be able to tell my children these stories as they go to bed.

Very good read, thanks Divebro.

everything on /x/ is archived at 4plebs.org

>>17501499
Jesus christ how new are you?

you can also copy paste it, and print it right now if you want a hard copy...

in notepad or some word processor

for your kids or just for later

>>17501489
I'm not projecting, you responded to my post encouraging him to be an author by shitting on him. How else were any of us to interpret that?

>(from a purely technical persepective)
I can almost see you pushing your glasses up your nose as you criticize this man on technicality.

Divebro here has served his country, he's written books, he's deep sea dived, he's probably flown fucking planes. He can turn a phrase and he can paint a picture of these unique experiences.

This man has seen shit no one has seen before, and he has named it after places that no one knew existed. And he has the skill to tell us about it and move us.

What the fuck have you done except shit on him? Is your dismal little basement so dark? Is your little life so meaningless and petty that you would bring others down just to validate your own failure?

If you don't like his writing, feel free not to like it, nobody in here gives a shit about your opinion.

Divebro, keep it up man. You will encounter small, tired-eyed assholes like this in your life, ignore them, you have too much talent and too much life left to live to waste it on their opinions.

>>17501505
What? Threads archive by themselves? Sorry I just browse /b/, /lit/ and /sci/

>>17500589
I'm just glad someone as poetic as you got to experience and therefore describe this stuff

i think he's previoustty talented

he paint a picture with letters well

authors are all very different peoplee

i wasnt using proper grammer, but did yu se what i did there?

>>17501517
Look at the bottom of the main page. See where those numbers are that lead to mysterious pages beyond page "1"? There are links that say "catalog" and "archive". There's also this.

http://archive.4plebs.org/x/

>>17501516
>I'm not projecting
He says as he continues to project. You've romanticised this guy's stories to points beyond any known level of faggotry.

>What the fuck have you done except shit on him?
I've published in quite a few articles in highly regarded scientific journals, as well as two non-fiction books and also run a reasonably successful website. My research has taken me all over the world and I've had experiences that I wouldn't trade for anything. I wasn't talking shit on this man out of jealousy or insecurity. I wasn't talking shit at all, really.

>nobody in here gives a shit about your opinion
Except obviously you. Your excitable and overly aggravated reply says a lot more about you than it does about me and I'm sure some pseudo-Freudian psychologist on here will have a chuckle over it. Your relentless and selfless support of Divebro (a person who you have never met or had any meaningful conversation with) is commendable but very, very immature, not dissimilar to the treatment of male pop stars by teenage girls.

>>17500589
We've probably crossed paths before. I know lots of sat divers and getting pressed is always a bad thing apparently. One of the divers I know HATES crabs. Refuses to even look at them. His reason was that each time he had to recover a body, there would always be crabs eating it when he got to it. One time he had to recover a buddy and the crabs had gotten inside the suit. When he moved the body, they came out and scuttled across his face inside the helmet like something out of a horror movie.
He HATES crabs.

>>17501551
crab are like little janitors they just eat the stuff that died on the floor as food, depending on species of course

that being said i can see why he doesnt like them

Has divebro left are we just down to listening to these faggots argue about who's smarter now?

>>17501568
Don't know, I will be monitoring, waiting for him to come back.. if he comes back..

>>17501550
The fact that I can romanticize his writing, says something about his writing. I may be all the things you claim, you may be all the things you claim, that doesn't reflect on divebro.

The only objective thing here is that you brought criticism where it wasn't really needed or desired, and in doing, could have negatively effected someones future. That was shitty of you. Good luck with your 'succesful website' and all your books. It makes me wonder why you're wasting your time talking to us on 4chan when you're clearly such an enlightened patrician of all things literary. Id expect you'd be giving lectures or speeches or something about your long and storied career.

Maybe you can write a book about how you educated the masses through a chinese basketweaving forum and everyone will sing your praises.

>>17500589
Where in the world have you sat dived? Most safe/dangerous country/standards?

also crab tastes great in q lemon butter garlic sauce, after you boil it

Oh dear. What happened I here while I slept? I'll try and get to all these replies.

>>17500697
I guess the Air Force gave me a taste of what was out there. I saw the world and, feeling invincible, decided I wanted to see a different world. These days, I love writing and traveling and fancy myself a bohemian. One of the wiser things I've been told is that life is not measured in days you live but in days you remember.
>>17500981
Leo!
>>17501015
Hah, cool. Thanks!
>>17501021
Thank you!
>>17501027
(Form a line.)
>>17501095
Thank you! I hope to publish through Olympia, Inkwater, or Amazon so it could be international. I actually haven't played it but I know of it and was planning to pick it up on steam during a sale.
>>17501136
I'm sure there's something poetic about falling out of the sky and into the ocean but to me it just felt like I had seen so much of one world that I wanted to try another. Down there, it certainly seems like another world. As I said long before, it's the closest I'll get to being an astronaut!
>>17501401
No perephial at all. Some have windows on the side but ours didn't. The lack of perephial is both a blessing and curse since it keeps you focus and you don't see things out of the corner of your eye, but you also CAN'T see things out of the corner of your eye. Adds to the claustrophobic feeling.
>>17501403
Tactical breathing is simply breathing on a four-count rhythm. In for four, hold for four, out for four, hold for four, repeat. It's a proven way to calm yourself down. I think they did call it something different out here but it's called tactical breathing in the military. For tactical reasons. It's easy!
>>17501406
Certifications! When it comes to any type of technical work whether it be blue collar like diving or white collar like IT engineer, certifications will get you the jobs and the money. You want your commercial diver, closed bell, welding, and underwater welding.
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>>17501581
>you brought criticism where it wasn't really needed or desired
Are you sure you're on the right forum?

>could have negatively effected someones future
If some slight anonymous criticism negatively affects his future, then he will NEVER make it in the literary world. All criticism is good, constructive or otherwise.

>It makes me wonder why you're wasting your time talking to us on 4chan
Literally the same thing could be said about you.

>chinese basketweaving forum
ahh, a Reddit meme. Explains everything.

>>17501608
Hey Divebro, what's your full name? If you don't mind me asking.

>>17501619
>thinking anyone will give away their full name on 4chan
dense

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>>17501619
his penname is enough baka,

dont't say it divebro

>>17501608
Okay I'll ask. How did you use the restroom down there?

>>17501623
Well, since he's thinking of becoming a published author I'd think he wouldn't be so reluctant to sharing his name, since it would contribute to his fame and thus book sales.

Also, why the hell wouldn't he? Because hurrdurr 4chan anonymoose hackurs will come for him ? Because it would give him a bad reputation of some sort? What?

>>17501632
You seem to have some ridiculous idea that this is a 'normal' forum, where everyone has an official identity and everyone is courteous. Perhaps Reddit is more your style?

>>17501637
Please, I don't want to argue. I'm just here to enjoy Divebro's stories, I'd just like his name in order to recognize when, and if, he does publish.

>>17501608
Wow, it sounds like space. Movies and sci fi must have taken a lot from diving before we went beyond the planet.
So weird to think that we function at a certain comfortable level in space, not too high or too low for us.

>>17501608
Great bit of writing.

Unsolicited bit of advice: Don't teach English in China. It will mess up your security clearance, which you may want to maintain to keep open all kinds of federal jobs and contracts.

>>17501644
You've been arguing for the last half of this thread. Your posting style makes it obvious.

>>17501611
>Are you sure you're on the right forum?
>hurr durr im allowed to be a piece of shit here and it's ok

>All criticism is good, constructive or otherwise.
Oh ok, then here is my gift to you! "You're a busy bodied piece of shit critic." Enjoy!

>Literally the same thing could be said about you.
I am not awesome, Im an anon with sleep issues who has accomplished very little in life and is getting some measure of vicarious joy through someones writing. You're the one claiming to be so fucking successful and awesome. The difference is, Im not shitting on people who are actively being awesome, just you.

>ahh, a Reddit meme.
if you think "chinese basketweaving" is a reddit meme, you need to fucking lurk more.

>>17495988
PUSSY

(Cont)
>>17501408
They can keep you down for weeks but we never did. It's hard with supplies and it's bad for morale. The longest we were down was just over a week. We do indeed sleep in the bell.
>>17501411
Good luck with the coast guard! They're some crazy people, and that's coming from me. Too bad there's only like five of them. I posted the certs I had above. Additionally, you have to be pretty fit and also have a good grip on math.
>>17501423
Was he actually on the platform? Half of the safety drills we did probably stemmed from that. North Sea is also pretty hardcore. It gets a special kind of cold. I was a Gulf diver. We just had the storms. May he have his well deserved rest.
>>17501441
Kind of. It's dorsal fin wasn't like that. It was more like a eel with it going all the way down its length. Bigger eyes too.
>>17501458
Thank you for the comparison! I'm not sure about it myself but it's something to strive for.
>>17501459
The issue is, as I understand, only the biologists can actually document the fish. They couldn't go down and we couldn't really get proof of them. We didn't have cameras and we couldn't just grab them. I did have a friend on the crew who would commit what he saw to memory and draw it in a journal back in the bell, like he was on an expedition into the Congo. I joked about it, but I actually loved it. He was a fantastic artist too. Pot isn't the best idea as a diver because I swear we were tested more there than I ever was in the military. I did undersea repair, usually on rigs and pipelines. We can't really ascend if there's an issue so, if it was a real emergency, the thing to do is get back to the bell.
(Cont)

>>17501651
>You're a busy bodied piece of shit critic
Thanks, I'll be sure to consider and embrace that in this thread and future threads.

>who has accomplished very little in life
There's the kicker- you've accomplished nothing. You're weak. You're insecure. You're standing up for somebody who doesn't need your help and certainly hasn't solicited it. You're wasting your time arguing with somebody you've never met for somebody you've never met for a goal you'll never achieve and never need. Reevaluate your life and your decisions.

>if you think "chinese basketweaving" is a reddit meme, you need to fucking lurk more
The whole '4chan is an ethnic industry forum' started on Reddit and it is one of the least funny and least intelligent meta memes.

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Children, shut the fuck up already. Don't make me turn this thread around and go home.

>>17501659
>You're standing up for somebody who doesn't need your help and certainly hasn't solicited it.
Oh there's the problem, you think Im defending divebro, I am not. He does not require me to defend him, clearly. What I am doing, is saying that you are serving no purpose with your questionable criticism. In the spirit of your post though, thank you for reiterating all the shit I just said, and you're right Ill totally stop criticizing you and criticize myself instead. Clearly criticizing others is your job, hypocrite.

Seriously though, since divebro is back I have no need to kill any more time fucking with you, enjoy your final word.

>>17501677
>enjoy your final word
Always have, always will. Nice cop out argument too, pretty typical 'I don't have any good points to make so I'm going to act like I don't care' structure. I hope you get your life sorted out anon, I really do. In the meantime do something productive, like anything other than shitposting on here..

>>17501472
>>17501477
>>17501478
>>17501489
>>17501516
>>17501550
>>17501581
Easy, guys. I appreciate the defense of my writing and the support, but I understand the point. Hemingway is one of my favorites and his style is both very simple and hard to emulate. I've always called him "the people's author" because he can tell a fantastic story in simple terms. Big feelings in small words. I don't think I want to try and capture his style, but he's definitely an inspiration and nice to be compared to, though I've long to go.
>>17501523
Thank you. Maybe one day a spooky military or woods thread will come up and I'll talk about Africa and haunted squadrons and how old Okinawans are kind of spooky.
>>17501531
Thank you. Yes, it's a very diverse group, all infinitely similar and different.
>>17501551
Agh, fuck that noise. I don't like crabs. They're like spiders and I don't really do spiders. Yeah, if we didn't get to the body fast, which we usually didn't, the crabs would. Inside the helmet though, yikes. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.
>>17501568
Fell asleep and was promptly woken by a sleep paralysis nightmare. Heard this weird rasp and it felt like someone was drumming their fingers up and down along my side. I thought I saw a shadow bobbing up and down out of view. I finally snapped into motion, knocked over a full glass of water, and the fucking lightbulb in my lamp burned out when I turned it on. Spookmax 9000. Hate that shit.
>>17501585
I was a gulf diver. There are a few different "zones" when it comes to commercial diving. Gulf and North Sea are the biggest. I think North Sea might be more dangerous. It's cold there and the seas and restless. Gulf storms are predictable and you can prepare for it. The North Sea does not take kindly to strangers in her waters. Of course, that's just what I've heard. Everyone says they have it harder than anyone else. It's a pride thing.
(Cont)
Sorry I'm going so slow. Phone since I'm lazy and still in bed.

http://wallpoper.com/wallpaper/sea-monsters-288031

can we stop flame warring and get back on topic peoples?

>>17501674
You could try posting something.

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>>17501619
Leo Corrigan. I don't mind. Worst that could happen is someone could recognize me and tell everyone about that time in Guam. Don't go to Guam.
>>17501627
How do you think? Because it's exactly how you think. Out in the water, you just do. In the bells you got some waste facilities though.
>>17501648
It is like space. It's like being on another world entirely. I imagine it's how an astronaut feels, in a way, being alone out in the dark, just floating there. Knowing that you're alone no matter what happens. I think it might be worse for us because up there they have the stars above and the dance of the earth and moon to keep them company. Down below, we have the dark and all things, great and terrible, that live within.
>>17501649
Yeah, so I've been told. I only had to get a secret but you really only need a body temperature roughly in the 90s to get a secret. Everyone in the Air Force gets at least a secret.

Captcha and I do not agree on what a street sign is.

This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Thread.

>>17501692
yes. im surprised divebro is still here

>>17501689
Hey Leo, how old are you?

>>17501689
Very interesting read, thanks for sharing :) How did you get into that job if i may ask?

>>17501689
Ahh the school of fish must've been amazing. Would love to experience that, myself.

>>17501689
what happened in guam?
do you have any good /x/ military stories?

>>17501683
>nice to be compared to, though I've long to go.
Well earned in my opinion.

The comparison was more about the spirit of the man than the technique or style of the prose, either way I appreciate you taking the time to write it for us.

>>17501689
did you know someone made a reddit post about all of this that you have said? OP credits it to you tho, mentions your name. search "Former saturation diver here." on TheDepthsBelow subreddit

one time i was out spearfishing with some friends and this giant eel came out with about the same heith ws my lenth after the poked its hole in the reef it was 'iving in, ...

i didnt like the vibe of the situqtion, so i turned around... and swam back, a spotted eagle ray did circles around me and escorted me back to shore.. doing toop deloops around as i swam away.. they all came back safe with no catch

>>17501689
Interesting, I'd read that the North Sea was one of the safer sites due to higher safety standards. But compared with the Gulf (I presume this is the gulf of mexico right?), I'm sure they would both have the same, high standards.

>>17495730
fuck
that
shit

>>17501696
27.
>>17501700
I got my diving license when I was stationed in Kadena and I just wanted to do something with it when I got out. I already knew how to weld so I picked up the few things I needed. That and a sense of invincibility, I guess.
>>17501705
There were certainly some good stories to be gathered underwater. It's like everything, I think. It's not amazing 100% of the time and, in fact, most of the time it sucks. However, when those moments arise, it sure makes it worth it.
>>17501709
I do have some spooky military stories but those can go into a different thread. They don't belong here. As for what happened in Guam? Let's save that for a rainy day.
>>17501713
Thank you. I've always been fascinated by a bohemian lifestyle. After all, when it comes to creating art, the quality of the art correlates to the quality of the soul behind it. It's nice.
>>17501720
I don't have a Reddit but I don't mind. I'll check it out. Thanks.
>>17501728
The standards are high everywhere. You're constantly practicing and drilling. Mistakes can't be made.

>>17495988
i cant even watch movies with long ocean scenes without starting to tremble like a little bitch, it sucks because for the most part im fucking sane and not pussy about most shit life can throw at me but something about the water just fucking traumatizes me, its too fucking uncertain

>>17501732
Great stuff. Just the kind of story I loved since I was a child, best to read in a warm bed indoors.

>>17501732
Most fascinating thing I've read on /x/. Thanks for sharing your memories. Get that book finished!

i can type neater, but i like to get people to think about words...

>>17501683
"Fell asleep and was promptly woken by a sleep paralysis nightmare. Heard this weird rasp and it felt like someone was drumming their fingers up and down along my side. I thought I saw a shadow bobbing up and down out of view. I finally snapped into motion, knocked over a full glass of water, and the fucking lightbulb in my lamp burned out when I turned it on. Spookmax 9000. Hate that shit."

dude, do you live in a fcking movie? holy shit i want your life

>>17501736
Thank you!
>>17501738
I hope to soon. Editing has taken longer than writing it did and I still want to edit it two more times after this run. It'll be a minute but hopefully soon enough.
>>17501742
You say that but now I'm out of light bulbs and had to clean water from all over the nightstand, wall, and floor! Wouldn't recommend that honestly.

>>17501657
Yes he was, his name was Stanley Macleod, and you can read more about his role here: http://m.arabianbusiness.com/fire-in-night-46950.html a truly wonderful chap, still cursed with nightmares about that night, who was sadly confined to a dementia care home at age 67 where I volunteered when I got to know him last year, but thankfully surgery on his tumour returned him from a forgetful muttering mess to back to near perfect health, although I haven't seen him since I ended volunteering there so I don't know how he is doing although I am very glad that I got to know him when I did.

>>17496425
thanks for sharing anon

>>17501746
Jesus, now I'm on edge just sitting in my kitchen. (thanks to your stories)

>>17501747
That's a shame. Thank you for sharing! I found the article very interesting.
>>17501748
Of course!
>>17501755
Topping off a night of deep diving stories with what I can only assume was a ghost checking me for tenderness.

If anyone has any more questions, I'll be happy to answer later on, but I gotta get on with my day for now. Thanks for listening guys! Hope you enjoyed.

>>17501763
Thanks Leo AKA Divebro, you are very much appreciated

>>17495665

I bet they had to wash out their wetsuits after that one. Things looming out of the gloom when you're diving always shit you up a bit.

>>17501763
thank you divebro. i hope we see you again in another deep sea or military or woods thread

>>17500492
>Did you see the fish
>Did you see the amphibious reptile that we must stress is not a fish even though you are under the water and it may resemble a fish to everyone who wouldn't know it's actually a reptile. But all of that is irrelevant because it's clearly not a Pliosaurus from millions of years ago and that was simply used as a point of reference but it's not a fish even though we don't actually know what it is

No John, you are the autism.

>>17496525

Tell them the byford dolphin story. I bet you can make it more icky than me.

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>>17500454
>That sheer void in the background

>>17500553
Tell us, oh wise one, what exactly does this cryptid fall under? You are an expert on mythical sea biology after all. No? I thought so, moron.

>>17501763
Imagine this as a virtual reality game. Guy's like OP just wear 360 degree cameras while doing their normal job and people can download and experience it in VR.

Do rigs have SONAR? It seems like it would be useful to give a warning of anything unusual or large approaching the divers.

>>17501763
I want them do to a movie about your time as a diver.

>tells awesome diving stories
>excellent writer
>interesting life
>replies to everyone
>super chill about everything
>tries to calm down a fight, doesnt just leave or ignore it
>doesnt get mad about someone posting his stuff on reddit
>answers every question thrown at him

divebro is the hero we need, but not the one we deserve

>>17501720
God reddit is a parasite.

>>17501849
yeh well I mean he say his name in there so it probably gave him publicity n shit

>>17501763
Just remember that you will probably be remembered like the first diver thread from years ago.

Hello everyone reading this in the archive years from now, I could be a skellington by now, who knows.

>>17501842
All we need from him is a story about some sort of Cryptid staring him down and the thread will be perfect.

>>17501763
with all this talk of writing, what's your favorite book?

>>17501763
You're a brilliant writer, seriously. You may have found another calling in authorship if you ever get bored with your ex-diving job.
The story about the little fish using your for shelter was terrifying, thank you for sharing that.
Sorry about the guys you knew who died. That's a damn shame, I'm sorry to hear that.
Thanks for sharing your story, especially the moment with the school of darters. That was cool to read.

>>17501763
His wife LOVED crabs. He said he would just leave the house when she brought some home for dinner. He refused to even be around them. I imagine the trauma will do that to you.

>>17501763
Do you still dive recreationally? I know a lot of people that can't dive for fun if they've done it for work.

>>17501763
So you wore gear kinda like in the movie abyss? Just with a tether for hot water supply and com?

>>17501763
When do you expect to publish? I'll buy it.

>>17501763
You actually made me feel the panic of what it would be like. Excellent description of something I'll NEVER DO and reminding me WHY I never will. Thanks for sharing :)

>>17501763
Hey man! I hope this finds you well. Came across your article/discussion; truly fascinating. Im open water, advanced and rescue diver certified with a little over 50 dives. I guess what im trying to ask is how did you get started? where did you begin and what drove you to become a saturation diver? I work a 8-5pm desk job and fantasize about leaving this and pursuing my dream of being a professional diver. Any tips hints or stories would be greatly appreciated, I hope you have a good day.

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>>17496314
submarines are maximum fucking spook

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>>17496425
>>17496525
>Oil rig
>Popping and cracking
>Huge support structure barely visible in the dark

It's scary enough to look at through a computer screen in clear blue water. You're a brave man.

>>17501763
Reading through all your responses, mixed with some light prior knowledge has really intrigued me in this kind of work. I used to dive for a small marina on a large reservoir, murky, 0 visibility water and I loved it. How'd you find that gig? Any recommended site to apply? Also besides being licensed did they look for anything else?

>>17501763
Thanks for sharing, very interesting read!
Could you elaborate a bit about the feeling of buidling up panic?
Sometimes I'm just going through the woods, hearing funny sounds,, I KNOW there's nothing out there that could possibly harm me, and yet I feel the rising panic and the adrenaline rush.
I guess your professionalism, the training and tactical breathing can lower this effect, but I'm sure it's never truly gone?

>>17501763
Wow. It's pretty rare that reading something gives me cold shivers down my spine. You painted a pretty damn good picture of what your job was like down there. You've got some bigger balls than I do, friend.
How did you end up in that line of work?

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>>17496525
N O P E
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>>17501608
A bit more personal now.

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Sea mines are spooky as hell for some reason

>>17501782
Oh, Christ. That one is a nightmare. That incident is exactly why we take decompression so seriously. Those people actually exploded. I won't go into the science of it, but these divers were in the decompression chamber and they opened the other door before closing the first. The decompression was so intense that it took a man and sucked him into a 2' hole, completely ripping off his limbs and spattering his organs across the entirety of the area up to 30' away. This is why we weren't supposed to talk at all in decompression while we were carrying out important steps. Actually exploding is a horrifying idea.
>>17501805
That'd be pretty cool!
>>17501817
It'd mostly be cursing and bumming dip with bursts of doing our actual job, much like the military.
>>17501842
>doesnt get mad about someone posting his stuff on reddit
I don't really mind. It's my story and stories are meant to be shared. If people really enjoy it, then I'm glad to see it spread!
>>17501857
That's a nice thought. Hello, archive readers! I'm glad you found interest in this and hope you enjoyed it.
>>17501859
I'm glad not. Ain't nowhere to run down there.
>>17501890
Starship Troopers (with The Sun Also Rises as a close second, coincidentally).
>>17501897
Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
>>17501899
Jeez, you think she'd understand. The things are rats of the sea. Never liked them.
>>17501903
Of course. I can see why people wouldn't but I think being saturation helped since the environment and process is so different. It's much easier to dive for recreation than go down in the bell.
>>17501908
Their gear is fancier but it's the same general idea. Their helmets are nicer, for the most part, but also don't look as rugged.
>>17501911
I'm about 2/3 through the first run of editing and that's taken me two months. I expect another 5 or 6 before I'm comfortable with publishing it and then I'm sure it'll get sent back to me for more editing. Hopefully before the end of this year.
(cont)

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>>17496328
millions of years of underwater evolution and you evolve to look like a floating anus

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>>17502003
You're not joking about the "exploded" part

>>17501914
It's not for everyone and I definitely don't blame you!
>>17501919
I started out in Kadena, Japan. I had always been told it had the some of the best diving in the world and so I got into it while I was stationed there. When I got out, I decided I wanted to do something crazy. I knew a guy I served with who went into it and he convinced me to get my certs and go for it. I guess I chose saturation over the others because it was the most dangerous and most interesting. If you want to get into a naval diving career, you definitely don't have to do the crazy crush-depth stuff like me. There are a lot of welding jobs around 30m, not to mention jobs with the Fish and Wildlife service and so on. It's a broader field than most people realize.

When it comes to dreams... if you're waiting for the perfect opportunity where you feel 100% ready, it doesn't really come. You kind of just got to gear up, get up, and go do it. If you want it, go for it! Start looking at different diving careers available and start working on certs towards the one you like. Underwater welding is a big one but if that's not your gig, there are tons of others. I think that's why I left diving. It was a fine job but the allure of a more bohemian life has always captivated me. As my father told me, dreams do not come, they simply wait. You have a good day too!
>>17501922
They are maximum spook. My brother was aboard the USS Olympia. At least when divers are under, we can look around us. In the sub, every noise is simply the terror of the unknown.
>>17501931
Imagine that but you can only see that closest beam. If you shine your lamp, you can get maybe the main pylon too. That's the entire world, just you and it with the creaking and popping.
>>17501942
Usual company stuff like records and experience. I happened to know a guy and that's how I got with my company. I'm sure it's not hard to find since they're always looking for more.
(cont)

>>17501946
It's easy to get anxious going down. Maybe not anxious, more apprehensive? Perhaps even a sense of dread. You're alone in the dark, after all. You exit the bell and you're floating alone in the void. Turn on your lamp and all it hits are the particles gliding past your face. There seems to be nothing, but you know that's false. You know that, all around, creatures of every caliber are silently moving through the water. Their waters. It becomes apparent that you're the foreigner. They are completely adjusted and apt at hunting in the dark and you are not. You are a stranger in a strange and unwelcoming land. Still, you have a job to do and focus on it. It's not hard, surprisingly, since there are so few distractions when you can only see your work and nothing else. Time will pass and the mix will eventually start to get to your head. You'll see something slip just past the edge of your vision, disappearing into the dark. The pipes will creak and pop ominously. You might even see a few small fish dart by and the thought occurs to you that they might be running. At this point, you have to control your thoughts or they will wander into darker places than even you are. You have to breathe. You have to concentrate. You have to do your job. Otherwise, it's not the monsters you have to worry about. It's always there but you can't let it win. If you panic, you rush. You rush, you hurt yourself. You hurt yourself, you die. It's just trying to keep it in your head that you're far more likely to die from a mistake than some unseen monster stalking you just outside your lamplight.
>>17501953
Knew a guy! He was a friend of mine who lived three doors down in Kadena. We dove together. He got out a good while before me and so, when I got out, he talked me into getting my certs and giving it a try.
>>17501981
Like it a lot. Thanks!
>>17502022
Not a joke at all. It's called explosive decompression for a very astute reason.

>>17502033
yeah im never going in the water again. that was some excellent writing dude

>>17502033
Hi Leo, I'm the guy that has been managing the reddit thread about your stories, my purpose of doing it is as you said yourself - to spread the content, since I enjoyed it very much myself. I will keep doing it as long as you don't want me to.

>>17502022
"Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient, violently exploded due to the rapid and massive expansion of internal gases. All of his thoracic and abdominal organs, and even his thoracic spine, were ejected, as were all of his limbs. Simultaneously, his remains were expelled through the narrow trunk opening left by the jammed chamber door, less than 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter. Fragments of his body were found scattered about the rig. One part was even found lying on the rig's derrick, 10 metres (30 ft) directly above the chambers. The deaths of all four divers were most likely instantaneous."

>>17502033
ey divebro how do we know any of this is true? you seem like a talented writer, so you could easily have made all of this up

>>17501550
it's whom. A person "whom" you have never met.

>>17502062
Because of his detailed responses to questions regarding the profession.

>>17502049
I've read that divers who work on high pressure pipes have been sucked into and killed by small holes accidentally made in them while working, like an inch or two big.

Is this true, scubabro?

Ever have any non life-threatening fuck ups? and on the flip side of that question, did you ever feel like you were hugely in danger, on account of something other than a malfunction?

>>17502033
Have any tips for a Betty or tender?

>>17502033
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbAxa-_3h6E

Is this also representative of what you did?

>>17499801
It's an ammonite and they come bigger.

>>17502042
Thank you.
>>17502047
I don't mind! Go for it.
>>17502049
Yeah, no, thank you. Yikes.
>>17502062
I guess you kind of just have to take my word for it. It is true, I'll tell you. Also what >>17502064 said.
>>17502076
I've heard of such a thing but I can't give any opinion or story on it. Never happened to anyone I knew of. Really, when it came to working on pipes, you were more worried about the inevitable massive lawsuit you were sure to catch for puncturing them. Plus, those things are pretty durable. It'd be kind of impressive if you actually punctured one, unless you were doing cutting of course. Even so, I don't really think it would mess you up as bad as that chamber. Kill you, sure, but not liquefy you. At least I hope not.
>>17502077
I dropped my hammer once. Never saw it again. Forgot my second hammer in the bell. Embarrassing. I mean there were always senses of dread that would creep over you but did I ever really feel like something was imminently wrong that wasn't a malfunction or mistake and I needed to leave? I think the thought occurred but I was good at suppressing it. I was never eaten by a seamonster so I think I was right. There are guys who do go back in the bell because they just can't shake the feeling. It happens.
>>17502078
Bottom of the ladder. It sucks being an apprentice and is hard for people who are prideful, but everyone has to do it. If the diver is a knight, you are his squire. Just keep a good attitude about it. You're learning and earning your place. It'll feel humiliating at times but you need to swallow your ego and you'll earn your place. You might get a prick as a diver though, but just try and stay cool. He kind of controls your career advancement. The cooler you are, the faster you get out of tender. Also, diving in more challenging and demanding environments will get you up the ladder quicker. Patience.
>>17502080
Their living conditions are nicer. Pussies.

>>17502062
>>17502064
divebro has a pretty good grasp on esoteric things like mixes. i have no idea what the fuck any of it meant anyway so that seems pretty legit

>>17502076
Imagine being sucked into a two inch wide hole starting from your legs.

>>17502151
just fuck me up senpai

>>17501922
This image always confused me because the sub looks rusted to hell and back.

Is that sub a wreck on the ocean floor that was abandoned or something?

>>17502154
>one of your leg bones gets stuck but your muscle and flesh keeps tearing itself away from you and disappearing down the pipe

>>17502003
I think your experiences would make for a great horror story set in the deep.

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>>17502158
I wish I knew dude. It definitely doesn't look like it's still in use, but at the same time it doesn't look like it's on the ocean floor either.

>>17502104
is there anything you're afraid of?

>>17502104
Her Leo, what is your take on the Quackers that used to circle western and Soviet subs during the cold war making quacking noises, anything you might think they could be?

>>17502104


>>17502077
here,

it's funny you said about the hammer, because that was going to be my initial question, have you ever dropped shit, but i thought it was too precise of a question lol. i bet there is a multitude of stuff down there that people have dropped. You've got nerves of steel, man. thanks for the good thread and great replies

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Argghhhh

>>17502160
spaghettification

>>17496444
>>17497314
>Tumblr filenames

>>>/out/
>>>/trash/

>>17502104
Did your voice get really high pitched from the heliox? If so how hard would it be to understand your.fellow crew members? Do you get used to it after awhile?

>>17502177
I think (and I don't have any confirmation of this) that it's sitting on an underwater cliff, and the visibility in the water at that time is just so poor that we can't see the part of it that's supported.

>>17501732
Regarding you saying that standards are high everywhere: Interesting, that's not the impression Tony Groom gave in his book 'Diver'. So it's good to hear the accounts of others.

>>17502104
Hey, I didn't plan on sleeping tonight anyway.

what are some good deep sea documentaries? james cameron's maybe?

>>17502566
BBC Planet Earth series

>>17502104
How did you deal with the time while not working living in the chamber keeping you at pressure. I would imagine that you would go crazy. I saw that they didn't have internet only a tv projected in and in small quarters. I'd go crazy. Also, I heard they have to replace the % of nitrogen in regular air with helium because of the issues with nitrogen at depth. Do you guys seriously talk like you have inhaled helium from a balloon the entire time you are on shift and kept at pressure? After hearing about the 28 days living in the chamber in close spaces I had the feeling I wouldn't want to be part of that. When they said everyone talks with helium voices that was the moment I realized I absolutely couldn't do it. Those voices would drive me insane.

>>17502104
On the subject of getting your helmet snagged - were you using the newer KM gear with the locking pins, or an older system? I always wondered if those hats would really stay put if hauled on.

>>17497768
If you don't mind my asking what does it pay? I'd kinda like the idea of doing something like that but the pay would have to be substantial to justify it

>>17502818
He has already answered that, scroll up.

>>17503016
divebro has been asked a lot of repeats and he still answers them every time. he is a patient man

>>17502104
Hey Leo, I got reddit gold from your content, thank you very much.

>>17502104
Thoroughly enjoyed your posts, thanks. I love diving but what you have described would kill me with fear. Just the tricks your mind would play and what's to stop a giant squid being nearby?

>>17503016
my mistake. I only read through about half the thread.

Thought I'd let you guys know that Schmidt Ocean Institute currently has an R/V live streaming from the bottom of the ocean. Might see something cool.
>http://schmidtocean.org/technology/live-from-rv-falkor/

>>17496309
That's a wurm, not a worm

>>17496314
>gw2 next expansion

>>17503054
divebro is such a good human being.
im crying senpai, hold me.

>>17502104
How long would you be down there? FYI I had a mild panic attack reading your post.

>>17500184
>bloodborne.jpg

Can we have more deep sea related pics pls

Oh, so you are within a high-pressure chamber on the oilrig and you get sent down in the bell. Now I get it.
What is quite strange to me is, I had no idea human body can actually function well for what is almost a month (?) under so much pressure. I mean like in the chambers. What physiological effects does that have? How far can one last before...before what? Any ongoing or longterm side-effects? I imagine you have to watch out for cardio?

>>17502566
James Cameron's is actually pretty good, though they don't show many of the creatures he saw, just the process and actually being underwater. Worth a watch anyways.

And though it's not a documentary, the film Pressure is pretty good. It's got really great tension, and for all of the thalassophobes like me, the anxiety sets in nicely.

Someone who knows about most of this shit here, clarifying:

>>17495663
Bioluminescent party time worm guy, about 4 inches long, lives near bottom of ocean.

>>17495665
>>17495730
I used to be terrified by the concept of being accidentally swallowed/eaten by a whale. Just trapped in it's stomach, waiting to drown/digest to death with no way out. Then I found out that the esophageal opening (throat) of these big motherfuckers is only about the size of a grapefruit. Couldn't even swallow a baby.

>>17495670
Shrimp species with fiddler-like super long claw, also lives near sea floor, less than 3 inches long.

>>17495980
Some kind of fucked-up Moray? Definitely an eel, trying to eat a sea urchin like a stupid fucker.

>>17496071
Basket starfish. Just one pictured. Little more than a living mass of slowly-moving short tentacles. Starfish are weird.

>>17496083
Shifty-ass squid looking sketchy. Probably up to no good. Could be a giant squid. Nice footage.

>>17496102
Fuck if I know. Holy shit. Doesn't look big, but that's one weird invertebrate.

>>17496285
Close-up of a CG rendering of an Anomalocaris, the first known monster to plague the ancestors of man. From a Discovery special on pre-dinosaur creatures. One of my favorite things to watch, check it out on Netflix.

>>17496300
>>17496293
Fuck cookie cutter sharks.

>>17496309
>>17502211
Bobbit Worms are so much worse than they look. If being able to shoot out of their hole, 5 feet long, in the blink of an eye wasn't bad enough, their jaws close so powerfully and quickly that they often snap their prey in half before they can even drag them back in. Oh, and let's not forget the hundreds of hooked spines all along its sides that inject a potentially permanent paralysis in victims with just a touch. Pure nightmare fuel.

>>17496328
Too small to fuck unless you have a needle dick. Also, not an actual orifice. Also, it would collapse under the pressure of you trying to fuck it.

>>17499216
Fake. Movie prop.

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>>17502174
I've tried a few short stories around it but nothing really solid yet, in my opinion.
>>17502188
Spiders.
>>17502189
Probably whales. They make all kinds of weird noises.
>>17502195
It's a great dishonor to drop your tools because it's a rookie mistake. Shame on your family and all that. Everyone will give you hell for it!
>>17502235
Our trimix used lower amounts of helium but it would affect your voice. You get used to hearing it. Topside, they actually had these special radios that would lower the pitch of the sound so they could understand.
>>17502521
Times are changing. It's becoming a more professional field. Plus, the deeper you go, the higher the standards. Tenders working at 20' aren't held to the same standards as divers down at 1000'.
>>17502542
It reminds me of sleeping underwater in the chamber. You'd hear things outside, maybe lightly hitting the hull or making a call or just the steel creaking. It was very unsettling at first but you get used to it.
>>17502636
I love that one. Sir David Attenborough is my favorite narrator.
>>17502772
Books, 3DS, ipods, contemplating killing that guy who snores really loud, drawing, writing, so on. We do sound silly but you get used to understanding it. The people topside have a machine to "descramble" what we say by lowering the pitch electronically.
>>17502776
Mine was actually Kirby Morgan but it wasn't the new stuff. Mine was a 17B.
>>17502818
Anywhere between $50k-$350k depending on experience, depth, hazard, and so on. I made about $65k but I kind of had a shit contract. Most divers at my depth make about $140-$160k. However, I got the job way easier than I should have so I don't have room to complain.
>>17503054
A lot has been said in this thread. I understand how people can miss stuff.
>>17503056
Grats!
>>17503356
Nothing is to stop the giant squid. Giant squid does as it pleases. Hopefully what it pleases doesn't involve eating you.
>>17503519
You're a good human being.
(cont)

>>17503748
cont...

>>17500165
Moray Eel, those are his eyes just above the mouth. He's turning is head weird, and it looks like he's been smashing his face into so much shit in that aquarium that he looks like Frankenstein's monster. Poor guy.

>>17500177
Not sure on size of a Crown Jelly, but they aren't as big as those huge red ones. Still, fuck jellyfish. They barely make sense, biologically.

>>17500184
Sea spider, all shriveled up. They don't look any nicer while alive.

>>17500189
Look like a crude drawing of either an eel or Oarfish. Oarfish are fucking HUGE, and likely the cause of several sea monster legends.

>>17500192
Various silts and heavy matter that sank below the water and filled that crevice, looking all like an underwater river. Super cool. Also kinda deadly if you try to trudge around in it.

>>17500198
See file name. Just sea weed.

>>17500211
Reminds me of those stories of early 1900s explorers scouring Africa due to very recent accounts of tribes seeing/interacting with what they describe as living brachiosauruses.

>>17502022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj4A_l6hJyw

well that explains this scene

>>17503521
Depends on the job, the crew, the depth. Usual "bell" dives would be down for the 8-12 hour shift and then back up again. There were also habitat dives where you lived in a glorified Winnebago underwater for weeks at a time.
>>17503719
I'm surprised this one wasn't asked yet! Saturation diving basically allows your body to absorb the max partial pressure of gas for that depth. That way when you go down, your body is used to the pressure. It's actually pretty amazing what the body can do with pressure. We could theoretically go a lot lower than current records, but the oxygen in our brain won't allow it. Our bodies could though.

You're only decompressed once and that's when you're done and coming back, so you stay at that pressure for weeks. They decompress you once and only once so there's a lessened chance of decompression sickness or worse.

>>17503780
So how long does compressing and decompressing take? How long does it take to be lowered and raised in the pod?

>>17496314
When the hell are they gonna make another expansion for this game? Seriously loved it.

I bet the fucks at North Sea Alliance would domesticate krakens and shit. Despite the fact they'll destroy your own terrain improvements.

>>17503928
I totally domesticated Krakens on one file. Not as the NSA, admittedly - I forget who I was on that file - but I had a navy that was almost exclusively krakens. It wrecked shit up until everyone else got their pleb units into the final upgrade tier.

>>17503770
My first husbando. Love 4 DiveBro.

>>17496306
dont these fuckers cut rock too?

>>17504338
Shit meant to quote>>17496309

>>17504345
It wouldn't surprise me. They're nearly impossible to kill - one guy had one in his aquarium and he was trying to kill it, and he reported feeding it a wad of krazy glue, rat poison, and metal shavings shoved into a shrimp, draining the tank, pulling the thing out with pliers, and chopping it up into a bunch of pieces, MULTIPLE TIMES over six months, and it still kept coming back.

>>17496102
>>17503748
I'm pretty sure it's a vampire octopus. They live in deep sea.

>>17502002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9esSbbMOA

>>17503763
Boy I'm glad I came across this thread before bed.

Dive-bro, I turned 18 last year and I've been trying to figure out what to do with my life, and one of the things I figured I'd get into was welding. I'm more interested in traveling though, and I know that welding could actually take me places but I'm kind of more interested in learning to teach English over seas.

Your writing is inspiring because it's a bunch of things that I already have the hopes of seeing/experiencing one day.

I only have one question though; does getting my TEFL cert and teaching abroad seem like a good place to start in terms of making money/traveling? Just in your personal opinion. I'd love to hear what you have to say.

Hey Leo, what is your book going to be about? Just a general idea will do. I never noticed if you mentioned before, and couldn't find ugh about it other than that you're currently editing it.

>>17503910
Hours. The pod moves pretty fast though. I wouldn't call it whisking but it moves decently enough.
>>17504118
Love you too.
>>17504737
I don't see why not! A TEFL (plus an associates if you can get one) is an excellent place to start. /trv/ is a good place to ask about it. Most jobs start at 2 months and go from there, so you can float about. Maybe even make it into Europe! I highly recommend traveling while you're young. Be wild and free. Few seize the opportunity. Maybe one day I'll run into you. My heart goes out to all the bohemians who sacrifice their old lives for their love of art and the world.
>>17504818
It's a book about death. During my teenage and military years, I always struggled against the concept of death. My book is about an astronaut who is accidentally cast out into space without any hope of savior. The protagonist has to deal with his own mortality and reflect on his own life, trying to decide if it was truly worth it now that he is faced with imminent and inescapable doom.

>>17505027
That book kind of sounds like Gravity, but I'll bite into it anyway.

>>17501608
Cool! yea it sounded more of a militaristic tactic than a diver specific technique. As a recreational diver, I know they tell you to breath normally; Skip breathing/breath holding is more for really technical stuff and military.
I would think that at that depth, you're air supply is denser than at sea-level correct? And you fill tanks in the Bell at depth as well?...Do you feel like you breath slower at depth? Im just curious about the physiological differences between breathing at sea-level compared to 300m. Since you're taking in a higher O2 percentage per breath, I feel like you could breath much slower, and absorb Oxygen more easily. However, I dont know if that is the case because your hemoglobins affinity to bind to oxygen probably doesn't change with pressure. This is something i have never really thought about.
Also, do you have to empty your tanks before you bring them to the surface so they don't explode?! haha sorry for the random questions, i love this post though....Thanks

>>17500570
On the topic of your story:
I'm interested on the moan, how does it sounds like?

>>17501657
"it's bad for morale"

Yeah, I can see that. How many people do you have down there? Is there anything fun you can do to pass the time when you aren't working?

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don't mind me just passin' through

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>>17501774
/x/: Repercussions of Autism

>>17505367
I see you are still autisming out on us.

>>17495719

Is that Walt Disney's "happytime underwater adventure")

>>17505027
Leo that book sounds amazing. I'm gonna keep an eye out for it. You should come back when it gets close to release.

>>17496525
What's the main cause of death for people in your profession? Why is the fatality rate so high? You'd think something that dangerous would have enough safety precautions.