Quotes About Diving

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

Randy does a sorting procedure on the diving books now: he ignores anything that has color photographs, or that appears to have been published within the last twenty years, or that has any quotes on the back cover containing the words stunning, superb, user-friendly, or, worst of all, easy-to-understand.

Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe - although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.

Diving is cool to watch. Springboard or platform - it doesn't matter.

I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

It was the dilemma of the watchers: they didn't want to wait around for nothing at all, some idiot standing on the precipice of the towers, but they didn't want to miss the moment either, if he slipped, or got arrested, or dove, arms stretched.

Agent Kip Holbrook was Ruby's in-training dive partner and the two of them spent a whole lot of time winding each other up. 'Redfort, you call that a punch - I coulda sworn I just got patted on the nose by a plankton.' 'Holbrook, you call that a nose - I coulda sworn I just spotted a rare and ugly sea cucumber.' They got along like a house on fire.

Most experienced scuba divers frequently use the Valsalva maneuver on descent to prevent "locking" of the tube. Scuba diving in the presence of preexisting dysfunction of the tube, when nasal congestion develops, or both are risk factors for severe tubal problems and barotrauma. It is probably not wise for individuals with chronic ET dysfunction to pursue the sport of scuba diving.

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

If the river were whiskey and I was a diving duck . . .

Seriously. There's no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.

I love scuba diving, and I've been up and down the Amazon.

Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.

I'm falling even more in love with you letting go of all i've held onto standing here untill you make me move just hanging by a moment here with you I'm living for the only thing i know I'm running and not quite sure where to go and I don't know what i'm diving into just hanging by a moment here with you

But it's mostly the act itself that brings relief, the self-forgetfulness, the diving and plunging into other lives.

I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia.

People just don't want to pay to see players diving around.

I love open water diving and first tried it in Vanuatu.