Wet (Very) Sex

by Erik Olsen on

OK, I realize this is pretty cheesy, but what diver (or even
non-divers) hasn’t thought about doing it underwater? There are all sort of obvious difficulties, but several
advantages, at least according to the women interviewed in this
article.

For example, says one, your breasts don’t sag underwater. Useful bit of trivia, I’d say. (Which begs the question:
do they sag in space?) Another issue:
shrinkage. So choose warm seas if you
can to keep your bits warm.

Anyway, a somewhat salacious little read to bring something useless to your quiet Martin Luther King Day.  

Shehorses

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If you’ve ever seen a sea horse you know they are some of the oddest creatures in the
deep.  Amanda Vincent, scientist, conservationist and diver will probably agree. She probably the world’s
foremost seahorse expert and just this year has been traveling to Australia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Kenya
and Canada. Then to Jordan and Mexico, all to go diving and check out sea horses. In
this article she talks all about her life and explains why
loving sea horses ain’t so bad.

Adventure Expo: Dive Pool

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Well, there’s no fish in it, which in my opinion detracts a bit from the overall allure, but the dive pool is up and
running and is something of a main attraction here. Exponauts are waiting in line to don wet suits so they can kick
around in the pool for a few minutes. Kind of lame, unless you’ve never dived before, and then I guess it’s a chance to
breathe underwater for the first time in your life. If the line dies down, I’ll probably give it a try, but my
expectations for fun and excitement are rather low.

Adventure Expo: Shadow Divers

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So I just chatted with the two guys, John Chatterton and Richard Kohler, who are two of the main characters in the
book Shadow Divers. they’re also hosts of a History
Channel show about wreck diving…Secrets of the Deep or something like that. Great dudes. Talked with them for a half
hour about the incredible story of their discovery of a
German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. They found the sub and were convinced it was a German U-boat, something that
(they said) has never been discovered off the US coast before. No one, not even history experts who specialize in such
things, believed they’d actually found a German sub. Tragic story. They lost three friends in the course of finding the
thing, which is sitting in the muck at 280 feet. They did a ton of research about the sub, which the Germans said had
been lost off Africa. They then went to Germany and talked to the families of the crew, some of whom, they said, wept
when they told them about the discovery. “It brought closure to these families who had no idea what happened to their
relatives,” said Richard Kohler, one of the divers (pictured on the right).

Photo of the Day: (1/14/05)

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Today’s picture of the day is a…um…what
the heck is this thing? Some
kind of mollusk, I think. Creepy. Looks like it has two eyes on its back just checking you out. Actually, it is a
slipper Lobster shot by Wojtek Masalski in Cozumel.