Haiti

Did you like Finding Nemo?

 

Yes. He was delicious.

 

So do you walk in on a conversation and ask people to start back from the
beginning?

 

Does your scrolling ability stop at the headers?

 

I'm not greatly fond of them either.

 

Fair enough. I loved it.

 

Ahh - therein lies your problem. The Barrier Reef, as much as it is a
magnificent bit of hertiage that we need to keep, is one of the most
boring diving spots in Orstraleya. Seriously. Like you said " Ooh,
here's a bit of coral, here's another fish".

You went to the tourist trap didn't you?

 

Yeah - that's fine. I'm not worried about that. I'm not writing a
thesis. If you don't want to read my stuff I'm hardly going to lose
sleep over it. My point was more that I (as in me personally) find it
easier to go back up through a conversation where it hasn't been
snipped. I can't see why you are getting worried about it. If you see
a long unsnipped post from me just ignore it if that's your thing.
Each to their own.

 

I *loved* diving the GBR[1], but then I like fish and coral and
underwater stuff in general. I was disappointed I didn't see any
sharks. However, my first ever dive was in the Dominican Republic, and
that was better in terms of terrain, ledges, drop offs etc.

[1] Michalemas Cay, one close to Green Island (IIRC) and somewhere else
in the middle of nowhere. The reef had a name but I unremember it.

 

Not as yet managed the GBR but friends who dived that and the egyptian
red sea reefs say egypt is far better. Fish, those are annoying things
in the way of the wreck right?

Seen reef sharks a few times and a white tip once.

 

Pfft, there are plenty of reefs that have vertical drops which go beyond
visibility.

 

Yea - but you really do not want to be there when it gets interesting.

 

Great Barrier Reef.

Hasn't been there long.
Might die off.
Do I GAF
No
New interesting things will crop up

Next people will be complaining that the mountains are wearing down. Well
**** off because some are growing.

So, as some people are bored (not me)

Have you seen 2012. Despite dire reviews I have watched it twice
(Blu-Ray/50" plasma) recently. I particularly like the tidal wave coming
over the Himalayas and washing the mountain top Monastery away.

I'm intruiged by the thought of a 1 or 2 mile high tidal surge. Perfectly
feasible, a decent meteor landing in the deep ocean would suffice. I've got
experience of messing with FOAD waves of the 30ft variety. So you can dive
under before the wave front meets you and get deep enough not to tumbled to
death. In fact they will press you down gently into the sand. So lets
imagine you are swimming in 20ft of water. A 50ft swell gets to you first,
you have reached a sandy base and you feel the pressure of 70ft of water
briefly. Then the swell above you suddenly increases to 5-10,000ft. Oops it
would be like popping out of a Bathyscape on the floor of the Atlantic.

I wonder what the effect of that is going to be!

 

Visibility has got **** all to do with it, you can't ever see very deep into
the abyss. Knowing just how far down things do go on was key.

 

You'd need some liquid breathing apparatus for a start.

 

It's not like you can fall off though, is it?

 

<groan>

That's abyssmal.

 

Ever done the Elphinstone? Seeing 60m down is deep enough, and it just
goes on and on and on. That kind of thing never bothered me but did some
people for some reason.

 

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I treat diving the same as I treat climbing or caving in that if
you're not actively trying to do something you've never done before
then it's pointless.

If you're going deeper than you've ever been before or going on a
newly discovered wreck then great but to just go on the same old
wrecks or dive on the same old reef is just boring.

I stopped caving because (at the time) I'd done all the hard trips in
the country and I stopped climbing/mountaineering because I'd gone as
far as I could without spending a lot more cash than I could afford
going to the Himalayas every year.

 

Nope, never tried it and never likely too. I've heard the "like flying"
comparison, but it does nothing to make me want to delve into the depths.

--
Beav

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