Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE
saltesc@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I grew up on the ocean and one of the most comforting “at home” feelings is being out past the breakers, disconnect my board leash, and just dive deep down, exhale enough air out my lungs to stop floating, and just sit on the ocean floor for a few seconds in beautiful silence.
And then stupid lungs run out of air and I have to resurface.
exhale enough air out my lungs to stop floating
Get yourself a weight belt for scuba diving and you can expand your ground time a bit. Get a full set of scuba equipment and you can sit there for hours (depending on depth, size of your tanks and how relaxed you are). :)
I’ve never SCUBAd haha. I don’t know why, it makes sense, but I’ve never been drawn to it and I can’t really explain why. I love the freedom of movement and not having to think about other things.
Feediving I can’t get enough of. But my record swimming underwater is around 2:10 and I enjoyed every second of it—relaxed, efficient, flowing—but I had to stop because it felt like I could do it forever. And that’s the paradox of shallow drowning. When the euphoria of the ocean inexplicably more euphoric, the Sirens calling, it’s time to surface. I guess like a diver checking their gauges.
My longest scuba dive so far was with my girlfriend in a German lake. There was nothing super spectacular, just some sea weed and some fishes but we spent there around 2.5 hours, floating around in the shallow water and enjoying the sun from underwater. Free diving definitely has advantages - especially because it requires almost no preparation, no need to carry around heavy stuff etc. but if you enjoy being weightless and giving your brain a little rest I’d recommend you to give scuba a try. It’s both great! :)
Not to mention if you’re out on a surfboard you probably don’t want to be wearing a weight belt :)
I wish the sea was a bit clearer where I live. But I’m summer I often go to the beach for a swim in my lunch breaks.
It’s interesting reading how terrified some people can be of the sea, and others are fine with swimming in it. Wouldn’t mind doing some shallow freediving but there isn’t much to see around here.
Last time I went to a beach, it was during southern winter (tropical climate, so temps never dropped under 20ºC). The only thing that kept me from going further out swimming was the amount of jellyfish being carried by the current.
It’s not really about what you can see and clarity, but it’s true that clearer water is much more psychologically inviting.
We’ll bring a smooth granite pebble out with us, while waiting for the swell, drop it down and take turns bringing it back up. We’ve had dolphins join us in the game once before.
But definitely I don’t feel the appeal of diving down and doing that when the sky or water is dark and unclear. It’s less inviting.
I used to do that in the swimming pool (I have always lived far inland) it’s often called dangerous on the mistaken belief that it’s like shallow water drowning where someone hyperventilates to swim underwater longer; since those people have blown off so much CO2 they don’t get a signal to breathe and suffocate.
Our method doesn’t involve hyperventilation, and wow does the need to breathe get strong
I was in my younger years blessed with the ability to hold my breath for nearly five minutes. I used to stay down so long people would get worried. I never did anything other than take a full breath. Hyperventilating always shortened my dive times.
Haha, I just responded to another comment of having to pull myself up from shallow drowning. It’s for real, but I think it’s specific to people with good long capacities—doing a lot longer than the average. I can easily hold my breath for 60s, but 90% of people can’t. Shallow drowning is not a situation 90% of people could find themselves facing.
I always remember brain damage can start occuring after 180s, so start questioning at 120. Nothing wrong with coming up for a couple mins of good fresh air before going down again.
I have to imagine that but I’ve done the same thing in a river too muddy to see one foot in front of you. It always feels wonderful. Somewhere in that back brain of ours is a genetic memory of peace and happiness.
Also grew up on the ocean and in the water, and I love floating with my ears underwater to block out the surface world and tune in to the water. I could fall asleep like that if I wasn’t always hyperaware of other people and worried they’ll fuck with me lmao
that sounds beautiful
Agrivar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I grok.
I’ve lived on the shore my entire life, and there’s nothing quite like being in the ocean.
saltesc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Grok? All I see is it an AI chatbot. Contextually, I doubt that’s what you’re referring to lol. Is it a diving form?
Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Possibly the most heinous thing the Muskrat has done is to STEAL a word coined by R.A.Heinlein to name his shitty LLM.
Rotwd@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
To grok something is to understand it. You grok?