Diving in the Keyes

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:7dULh.13799$O_5.10435@trnddc03...
Susan wrote:
I took swim lessons and still am not the best swimmer. I guess I should
have done lessons in my "younger" years and not as I got older. I totaly
agree that fear plays a huge part in swimming. Once I realized I could just
stand up in the 4ft. of water and had no reason to fear I took off across
it.

Pick up an inexpensive set of fins, mask, and snorkel and try that out in a
pool. You may find that you lose your fear when you can travel rapidly, see
clearly, and breathe normally. If so, moving up to SCUBA is simply a matter of
training and better gear.

Exactly this is what I had on my mind when I said diving is not
really swimming. Swimming is much harder: coordinate breathing
with moving hands/legs and taking air is hard - all these things
are no problem with snorkeling/diving.

And one more thing everybody tends to forget: sal****er is heavier
than swimming pool water, so you tend to stay at the surface more
often when you play in the ocean than on the pool...

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_sea
Scroll down to the section Chemistry and health effects and look
at the picture on the right. Dead Sea is little bit saltier than the ocean so
the effect is exgagerated but you will understand what I am talking about

On Mar 20, 3:11 pm, "Pszemol" wrote:
"George Patterson" wrote in messagenews:7dULh.13799$O_5.10435@trnddc03...
Susan wrote:
I took swim lessons and still am not the best swimmer. I guess I should
have done lessons in my "younger" years and not as I got older. I totaly
agree that fear plays a huge part in swimming. Once I realized I could just
stand up in the 4ft. of water and had no reason to fear I took off across
it.

Pick up an inexpensive set of fins, mask, and snorkel and try that out in a
pool. You may find that you lose your fear when you can travel rapidly, see
clearly, and breathe normally. If so, moving up to SCUBA is simply a matter of
training and better gear.

Exactly this is what I had on my mind when I said diving is not
really swimming. Swimming is much harder: coordinate breathing
with moving hands/legs and taking air is hard - all these things
are no problem with snorkeling/diving.

And one more thing everybody tends to forget: sal****er is heavier
than swimming pool water, so you tend to stay at the surface more
often when you play in the ocean than on the pool...

Check this out:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_sea
Scroll down to the section Chemistry and health effects and look
at the picture on the right. Dead Sea is little bit saltier than the ocean so
the effect is exgagerated but you will understand what I am talking about

I hear you like to play th eskin flute there Pszemol...Did Wayne teach
you or did CArol Gulley

Pszemol wrote on 3/20/2007 4:11 PM:
Dead Sea is little bit saltier than the
ocean

More than a little bit :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets

"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message thlink.net...
Pszemol wrote on 3/20/2007 4:11 PM:
Dead Sea is little bit saltier than the ocean

More than a little bit :-)

Like ten times more :-)
But this was exactly the point of using it as an illustration
of much easier swimming in the ocean than in the pool.

If you have couple more pounds of fat around your
stomache it makes it even easier to float in the ocean :-))
.... and probably makes you tastier for sharks, too ;-)

Pszemol wrote:

... and probably makes you tastier for sharks, too ;-)

Damn. We almost had her talked into it.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

George Patterson wrote:
Pszemol wrote:

... and probably makes you tastier for sharks, too ;-)

Damn. We almost had her talked into it.


Unfortunately, shark populations are dwindling rapidly. There were only
two sitings in a group of 21 drivers and 5 dives each. Both were nurse
sharks.

Did someone say "sharks"?? YIKES!!!! ;-)

Susan
"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Pszemol wrote:

... and probably makes you tastier for sharks, too ;-)

Damn. We almost had her talked into it.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

I bet Wayne would love to muff dive on you susan! Hell he muff dives
Carol Gulley.


On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:45:28 GMT, "Susan"
wrote:

Did someone say "sharks"?? YIKES!!!! ;-)

Susan
"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Pszemol wrote:

... and probably makes you tastier for sharks, too ;-)

Damn. We almost had her talked into it.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.




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