Under da sea.
I mostly keep my affinity for SCUBA diving to myself, but it is true, I am a big fan of the French art. Growing up and watching Jacques Cousteau then James Bond with tanks on their backs and knives strapped around their calves was more than my young heart could take and I got my dive certification as soon as I could.
The problem with the SCUBA diving scene, I soon found out, is that it is neither Jacques Cousteau nor James Bond but rather upper-middle aged, slightly overweight suburbanites who treat 60 feet below the ocean’s surface like another neat place to day hike.
Many colorful gadgets. Much slowness of movement.
Well, maybe Polish SCUBA enthusiasts feel the same way as me and hope to bring the sexy back with the almost-finished DeepSpot diving tank just outside Warsaw.
At nearly 150 ft, it will be the deepest dive pool in the entire world and be stocked with cool features like caves and shipwrecks and if that won’t inspire a Thunderball scene than I just don’t know what will.
According to DeepSpot’s Facebook account, there is only one pool left to fill and then the doors can swing wide.
Not according to DeepSpot’s Facebook account, but we must assume, is the influence of Kelly Slater and his Surf Ranch. I’ve snowboarded an artificial mountain in Dubai and floated on an artificial river in Las Vegas but both paled in comparison to the artificial waves in Lemoore. Slater and his team raised the expectations for fake.
That manmade should be better than real and more fun too.
Slater almost achieved with his but the Poles most certainly will with theirs (see video).
I can say, without a doubt, I will be diving DeepSpot next time I’m near Warsaw with a very cool knife strapped to my calf.
Will you join me?
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Don’t forget G.I. Joe
Imagine the size of the brain eating amoeba they’ll end up breeding in there.
Hopefully they’ll lace the water with urine-activated dye. Divers can give their loved ones a show as they watch from the tunnels.
It’s a myth. Not true. I heard about it so much as a kid in public pools. Of course I peed in them little anyways to see if it’s true.
Then realized it’s a lie, like Santa.
Try calling a pool supply store and asking for “the dye” they will tell you there is no such thing. I know from experience.
I really wish there was a dye.
To protect me from peeple like myself.
Thank you for your wisdom. That information stings!
If you went in the pool after I was in there, something more than just chlorine would really burn your eyes.
And quite a few houses with soundproof underground bunkers for housing long term “Guests”
Ever notice that when Otto posts a politically rancid statement about anything, it’s always a ‘joke’. But his jokes are always banal and flat , ie, unfunny because they are always political. A troll who hides behind anonymity on a surf fucking site is pathetic.
Cheer up, go give your knob a Polish.
Ever had polish donuts?
They’re amazing!
Had a Polish girl. Blonde and blue. Little chubby when I met her at the bar. Treated her like shit. She loved it. Used to visit her occasionally of a few years. At the end she was slim and lean. And a bunch of fresh tattoos.
Cut the chord. Sometimes I still think of her.
She probably ran out of donuts
They should stock that thing with at least one shark
This is where the Europeeing Space Agency will film their, “space walks”.
To show off the fake “round earth”?
The inside of your head would work quite nicely too
I’m still waiting for the shark article.
It had better have a treasure chest that builds up with air and the flaps open briefly. If not then just fuck off.
This is very obviously a deep fake lake news story.
JoB is often seen surfing the standing wave formed in a trench dug between the Waimea river and the sea.
What if someone dug a trench from the sea to a region that is below sea level, like Death Valley, and made a massive standing wave going the other way.
While also forming a new saltwater inland lake to stock with fish and build resorts around…
I wonder if that could help address sea level rise?
Kelly discovered decades ago the advantage of the artificial over the natural when he met Pamela Anderson. The wave pool is a memorial to their love affair, a bit like the Taj Mahal!
That’s true. He’s got a taste for MSG these days and only likes eating Chinese pussy.
Chas while you were dreaming of Bond and Jacques-Yves Cousteau , our minds , down under , were definitely on URSULA …..
https://youtu.be/sDMOdq0PW1c
Honey Ryder or Jinx?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
One scoop of each !
Nice, much easier on the eyes than James Bond or Jacque.
The depths to which government will plunge to force social distancing boggles the nitrogen bent mind.
Yep two sports ….. Scuba and Mexican Wrestling where it is cool to wear a mask .
I once surfed with a Mexican wrestling mask on, but damn that thing fucked up my depth perception something fierce.
The depth in which you will go to equate any story to the oppressive government is well….mind-blowing.
It was a joke. Get over your shitty stance.
Just like its a “joke” every time your boy Trump says some dumbshit
Lighten up Francis.
Ill lighten up when you concede the election big boy
Bends matter…
Surely if it was inspired by Kelly it would be called the Jacques Costeau Dive Pool, be prohibitively expensive, only able to accomodate one diver every five minutes and be built over a threatened ecosystem next to an existing natural dive hole
Don’t be bitter mate. SurfAIDS is still the best name.
Cmon man. Jacques Cousteau was a honorable bad-ass!
Just thinking about the safety briefing and the crowd of pre-VAL’s at this place puts me off from even visiting the Country.
A full week without a shark story Chas?
It’s coming today I suspect. Fatal shark attack in Broome.
“SHARK!”
https://www.youtube.com/wat…