I got my divers license a few months back and literally every single person I interact with in scuba diving communities is an autocratic, arrogant autists, that's the best way I can describe it
what's up with that? I'm considering learning how to solo dive at this point just so I don't have to interact with these people
I'd say it's a sign they have little to no practical skill/unassisted experience and need to dogmatically rely on the koolaid they drank to feel confident enough to perform whatever action safely. and they likely need that authority because they have none over their own life.
congrats on the certs tho.
My middle School principal was a rescue diver, and snobby/ arrogant like you mentioned. That attitude is common amongst cops, firefighters, paramedics, sailboaters and fly fisherman. It's a "I'm better than you/ and everyone owes me something for saving your ass"
Oh and people.involved in motorsports
>sailboaters, fly fishermen
People who do those hobbies believe they're doing the "pure" version of their respective activities, a sailboater seethes about powerboaters and fly fishermen seethe about reel fishermen. Sailing and fly fishing are also expensive hobbies to pick up so a lot of rich dicks with zero outdoor sense consitiute the "beginners".
I'm sure there are other purist, expensive hobbies that have the same issues.
Sailboating used to be one of the cheapest things you could do for your vacation here in Poland, typical hotel for a familly used to cost 150/200 PLN and to rent a 6.2m sasanka sailboat in Madurai region used to cost 100/150 MAX, I used to get laughed at at school when I said that I spend my time on the lakes and not like other kids, in the towns near the see. It used to be really different back then, people who owned their boats were either very old men who purchased/renovated old German units or 40yo who loved sailing but couldn’t afford the maintenance of a boat so they resorted to renting it out for people like my broke family. I miss those times.
>Sailing and fly fishing are also expensive hobbies
Sailing only costs like $400 a year
>firefighters, paramedics
This must be a city thing. The firefighters and paramedics I've worked with are pretty chill. Usually they seem worn out by all the shit they've seen.
Sailor/fly fisherman here, I look forward to cucking you further
Typical of small, niche hobbies. Same shit with HAM operators.
All hobbies really, PrepHole related or otherwise. That's human nature.
Lol fuck getting a HAM license. I was thinking about getting one just to learn a new skill but those people are fuckers
>is an autocratic, arrogant autists
explain
like this
Cope harder, I don't consider "rec" divers to be actual divers. The more accurate term would be a air assisted swimming. True scuba divers actual do stay DOWN. "Reccies" as I call them are basically floating bodies in the water and a hazard to navigate.
Until you have done nothing less than 100 150+ deco dives at technical rating and spent no less than $50 on gear, rebreaters you are not a scuba diver, just another Reccie.
Picture related a few weeks ago we discovered a rare Salamander.
>I don't consider "rec" divers to be actual divers
nobody really cares tho, but cool fishy
One person on PrepHole isn't exactly representative of anything.
The fact you call it a "license" already shows to me you are likely a moronic gay that is generalizing people despite you having practically ZERO experience in the sport or group.
It's not a license it's a certification, there's no legal regulation that prevents you from diving other than insurance restrictions a day policies that shops and outfitters have in regards to filling tanks and chartering boats
>The fact you call it a "license"
no, I just don't good with technical terms and english
>ifunny
Can someone edit the original im too lazy.
It would be more like,
>always get the bends on the first dive
>dives again anyway decompresses
>Has never followed a dive table in his life
>Always ends with exactly "0 psi" remaining air.
>Has reached depths beyond human physiology
ends with exactly "0 psi" remaining air.
I feel personally attacked.
haha yeah this was me but skiing. Its just giving you so much dopamine/serotonin that you have the same attitude as a drug addict.
>I got my divers license a few months back and literally every single person I interact with in scuba diving communities is an autocratic, arrogant autists, that's the best way I can describe it
Strange. Most of the scuba divers I've interacted with are super chill.
This has been my experience as well. Divers are way more chill than other groups like skiers and thru-hikers who have their heads up their own asses.
Typical Recky mindset.
I guess reckys gives me good practice for underwater body recovery when they call me in for a SAR dive. I can't be too down on them for that.
Clean it up sea-jannie
It’s a mixup between super chill rec divers/instructors and arrogant tech divers. And then you got the DIR fanatics…
same reason why a lot of people make their fetish/sexuality their whole personality, it's all they have.
every hobby has ppl like that, but you’ll find someone tolerable eventually
my friend’s dad is a high level technical diver who has gone below 100 meters and deep into caves, but normally he’s a really chill guy
Wow he must have found so much treasure
>deep into caves
The human body isn’t designed to survive at those depths breathing atmospheric air, hence the bends if you fuck up and having to take a break to dissolve out the iirc nitrogen from the blood stream. Basically all this stuff fucks you up long term and that’s before you get into nitrox rebreathing whatever. I’ve never met a normie long term diver, they all end up a bit strange.
My dads friend was a professional diver working on rigs, hydro dam intakes and that sorta crazy shit. Not sure if he was a welder or not but he would go down for the whole job and sleep in a habitat, intense shit. He's mad as a meat axe now, not just from being underwater but has a genuine thousand yard stare thing going on from how intense it was and he's a bit autistic. Other than that he isn't arrogant at all he's super nice, just intense. When he talks about doing that work he describes it from almost a 3rd person pov like it wasn't him being a badass he was just along for the ride and got caught up in it, pretty weird.
Oi mate, you got your divers loicense have ya?
When you get to the tech level, yeah were pretty much all arrogant.. and we are better than you.