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Ooh, dark and interesting! Please do!
Ooh, dark and interesting! Please do!
Or even if they have the electricity to be able to see at all.
It occurred to me that their final moments could truly be: trapped in an airtight tube, 3,800m below the surface, dwindling air supply, and no. light. Pitch darkness. No way to know if anyone is coming, how long you’ve been down there, or if the sub will instead (mercifully) give way to the pressure and crush you instantaneously and without warning.
His interview with John Oliver is funny.
@uninvitedguests OOH! Thank you kindly for these tips, I love it!
Recreational scuba instructor since 2008. People think it’s extreme as fuck, and badass and all. It’s honestly really Zen. You take long, slow, deep breaths; often wearing a wetsuit or drysuit which reduces the sensory input on the body; you can’t talk to anyone else (unless you have a full face mask and comms system/are fluent in sign language); mechanics of sound through water mean that everything is muffled and sounds like it’s above you; you’re (ideally) neutrally buoyant, so you’re drifting through your surroundings.
It made a hell of a lot of sense why this was my career choice when I got an autism diagnosis in 2019.
Thanks, Ernest. You’re good people. 😊