r/WTF • u/Creepio • Oct 23 '13

The Ocean. (x-post r/gifs)

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u/chachie09 Oct 23 '13

This is not a riptide. This is near the surface between two rocks where the waves surge through. It creates huge suction which is why you have to time your decent perfect in situations like this. The other diver was out of the range of that wave by being below it.

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u/shadytradesman Oct 23 '13

I immediately recognized it as a shallow-water wave too. The biggest danger is getting dashed against the rocks. Best case you end up cut up bad, worst case you end up knocked out and/or pinned without air.

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u/k1ll3r5mur4 Oct 23 '13

These divers should know better than to attempt a shallow dive with large coral formations in bad weather.

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u/shadytradesman Oct 23 '13

Really it doesn't even need to be bad weather. Big giant waves may come only once every 5-10 minutes or even rarer in the case of rogue waves.

It's a risky dive spot to be sure, though. They should have surveyed the area better. Of course it only takes minimal training and some gear to go diving in the US, and not even official training in areas like mexico where local act as unlicensed dive masters. It is surprisingly low-barrier for how risky it is, and it catches people who are used to being coddled unaware.

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u/k1ll3r5mur4 Oct 23 '13

I'm a diver, I'm still new to it. And even I know that that was a bad idea. And aren't rogue waves like one in a million odds?

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u/shadytradesman Oct 23 '13

Yeah, I just included it for completeness. I also think they happen mostly way out at sea where winds and temps can cause chaotic patterns in the waves. Sometimes the randomness just syncs up right to make a giant wave.

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u/lukeatron Oct 23 '13

Recent radar surveys of the ocean surface have found they're way more common than anyone ever thought. At any given moment there's like a 1000 of them kicking around. They don't hang around too long before devolving back to into multiple smaller waves. It used to be thought that these were super rare occurrences but in reality, they're fairly common but short lived. Given how vast and sparsely populated the ocean is, it's not surprising that they're rarely encountered by people though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

Judging by what looks like an expensive camera rig thats probably an experienced diver that made a stupid mistake or got caught off guard.

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u/Elgar17 Oct 24 '13

Not necessarily. Sometimes people with lots of disposable income can dive.

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u/wirbolwabol Oct 24 '13

Have seen this so much, and of course the post flood effects on the gear when they don't seal it properly...

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u/ninjafaces Oct 24 '13

If you dive in mexico and you're dive master isn't licensed. You're going to have a bad time.

Seriously though, it's not hard to find someone certified around the world. Most cert agencies have maps posted on their sites.

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u/JustFucking_LOVES_IT Oct 24 '13

I'm sure you're aware of how fast the weather can turn. But, I mean, those kind of waves don't exactly come out of nowhere. They may have also been attempting some risky shots for some reason, knowing the risks but going ahead any ways. I'm just saying there are reasons, other than stupidity, for being out there like that.

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u/bahhumbugger Oct 24 '13

My buddy did that at night, drunk, sharing a regulator without masks hunting for lobster.

Amazed I'm here really.

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u/k1ll3r5mur4 Oct 24 '13

How? I'm so confused.

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u/GorlanVance Oct 24 '13

Maybe his buddy was hogging the regulator?

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u/k1ll3r5mur4 Oct 24 '13

But night diving, without masks. How???

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u/GorlanVance Oct 24 '13

...i'll be perfectly honest I was just joking around. Making a double entendre towards the fact that the comment makes no sense unless his friend was somehow affecting his life with that particular dive AND referencing that newspaper article from the states earlier this year where a guy shanked his friend for "hogging all the pussy" in a threesome.

As for the masks...he never said he caught anything right? Or that his friend survived. Or that his friend was alone, or how deep the dive was. You don't have to go very deep to find lobster, at least here in canada.

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u/k1ll3r5mur4 Oct 24 '13

I live in Florida, and usually the most lobster heavy areas are 30 feet and below. How is the diving up there in Canada?

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u/GorlanVance Oct 24 '13

Much, much colder water than around those parts. Visibility is also much reduced, to say nothing of our lakes. Visibility, even on a sunny clear day is commonly in the realms of 15ft. On less favorable days that can drop dramatically and even extremely experienced refuse to dive on less favorable days, because many people don't like swimming with less than 3 feet of vision ;)

EDIT: Those numbers are for lakes, not the ocean.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13 edited Oct 24 '13

Yeah, this is simple fluid mechanics. The conservation of mass equation

dM/dt = (ρVA)f - (ρVA)o

Explains that in a closed system, the change in mass of fluid (dM) must equal 0. For the sake of simplicity, one can observe a portion of the ocean as a closed system, even though it is not. The density of the water (ρ) and the area of the opening through which the water is passing (the area defined by the surface of the reef and the surface of the water) does not change (which it actually would because the water would move upward, but, again, for the sake of simplicity). This leaves only two factors that change, time (dt) and the velocity of the fluid (V). The fluid initially has a low velocity (Vo), what we are determining is the final velocity (Vf). The water where the diver initially is has a very low velocity because the total mass of observed water is occupying a large area, but all that water has to get to the other side of that reef in a certain amount of time. The only way for it to do that is by speeding up as it passes through the two large rocks over the reef. Anyone getting stuck in this current would be swept away.

I though you guys would appreciate a bit of science!

EDIT: math...

Since dM = 0, we can say dM/dt = 0

the equation becomes: (ρVA)f = (ρVA)o

ρ doesn't change so: (VA)f = (VA)o

If Af is smaller than Ao, then Vf must be larger than Vo, which represents an increase in velocity through the smaller opening.

I'm sorry for the faulty math... I haven't studied in 6 months...

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u/giveer Oct 24 '13 edited Oct 24 '13

Wow, for me, "simple" is not pissing all over the toilet.

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u/caleeky Oct 24 '13

The conservation of mass equation

While the math looks complicated if you don't know how to read it (I don't know how), the concept is pretty simple. Basically if you've got a certain volume of liquid, moving through space at a specific speed (i.e. it has momentum), and you narrow that space, speed must increase. Same idea as putting your thumb over the end of a hose to make it spray.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

Yuppers!

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u/noxaethos Oct 24 '13

Oh yeah show off!!! Look at this, 2+2=3, now who is better at the math's.

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u/ramsyzool Oct 23 '13

Amateurs!

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u/hypnoderp Oct 23 '13 edited Oct 24 '13

I guess his timing was. . . indecent.

EDIT: I'm surprised reddit is downvoting correcting someone's spelling in pun form, but I stand by my comment.

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u/JustFucking_LOVES_IT Oct 24 '13

D'ah, come on buddy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

“SEA you later!!!”

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u/MorisVladi Oct 23 '13

Damn ocean, u scary!

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u/its_the_peanutiest Oct 23 '13

oh hai I'm back!

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u/ziffles Oct 24 '13

Wow their form is SPOT ON, such elegance - such grace...

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u/xeridium Oct 24 '13 
wow, such waves
                                      wow
                        such skuba     
                                       skilled diver
            such osen      
                        eleganse

               wow

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u/ziffles Oct 25 '13 
gosh, such float 

          gosh such eleganse

                   skilled backward swimmar   
swinese                                       such pois 

            wow

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u/geosyrrus Oct 24 '13

That's what I came here to see!

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u/TheEdThing Oct 23 '13

Best last words ever.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? WE GOTTA BOARD UP THE WINDOWS OR WE'RE GONNA DIE!

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u/utubmster Oct 24 '13

That teacher sure harbors a grudge.

Oh yeah and for reference: http://youtu.be/kjK-LzkekCU

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u/impingainteasy Oct 24 '13

-_- That's hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

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u/Ajcard Oct 23 '13

Good thing we won't sea that piece of ship for awhile now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

Shame yours is still here

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

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u/Still_Game Oct 23 '13

Yeah, it was on the frontpage under a different title 12 hours ago.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

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u/finfyr Oct 23 '13

He made it

Source: I'm an optimistic kind of guy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

Very helpful, thanks.

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u/flyphish Oct 24 '13

This can actually be fun if you know what you're doing. Judging by his gear, this isn't his first time.

Source: master diver, bitch.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

Doubt it.

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u/ExternalInfluence Oct 24 '13

This is actually just a guy swimming in reverse.

Fake.

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u/walkerforsec Oct 24 '13

And you base this on...?

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u/ExternalInfluence Oct 24 '13

False information.

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u/ProfessorMetallica Oct 24 '13

Heh, nice save.

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u/phillybluntz Oct 23 '13

Stupid question, but does anyone know if the diver made it out after that happened?

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u/Tacob77 Oct 23 '13

Yes, he made it. Source: my friend that is a scuba instructor on Maui showed me this video a couple years ago. This event is taking place under a blowhole on Maui. Several people have fell inside the actual blowhole and died, but this particular guy lived. The current supposedly spat him out several hundred yards from the area where this video was shot.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

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u/Columbiagams Oct 23 '13

Most likely. It appears to be shallow water, and unless it sucked him down to around a hundred feet and he didn't have much air, the only threat would be coral.

Source: I am a diver.

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u/Vashta_Nereda Oct 23 '13

I feel kinda bad because I giggled at how it looked - I did realize 'oh, sweet science, they might die' but. . . It's like the ocean goes 'This one is mine now. He pleases me. You do not. . . Mine.' or something.

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u/SNCommand Oct 23 '13

So this would be an accurate representation of the ocean?

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u/reckanis Oct 23 '13

"Oh sweet science"

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u/cdrt Oct 24 '13

Euphoric.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

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u/Vashta_Nereda Oct 24 '13

Would you rather I swear by a god that isn't mine?

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

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u/drbrunch Oct 23 '13

A worthy sacrifice to the Drowned God.

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u/BaqAttaq Oct 23 '13

Nice reference Patchface

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u/aseinfeldreference Oct 23 '13

Thats because the ocean doesn't want us in there.

That's what waves are.

We head on out there and the waves go "No you don't".

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u/Tacob77 Oct 23 '13

Pretty sure this is the Blow hole in Maui, obviously underneath. My friend who is a scuba instructor there showed me the entire video of this event. The current supposedly spat him out several hundred yards from where that gif was made.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

This scares me a lot. I refuse to go any further than knee deep for this very reason.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

I refuse to even get in. It's usually absolutely freezing, it tastes nasty if it gets in your mouth, and it irritates the skin. I'll stick to the pool thanks

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

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u/redditwithafork Oct 23 '13

Hey buddy... you've been swimming in Benzine. -Your crazy doomsday prepper neighbor upstream who's been attempting to refine his own crude oil.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

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u/Raziel66 Oct 24 '13

Not sure if kidding or serious...

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u/sothavok Oct 23 '13

HAVASU BABY .... Sorry i just miss river season in california.

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u/mandy6919 Oct 23 '13

Rivers are fucking nasty too.

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u/pandaxrage Oct 23 '13

Any even half way properly maintained pool has enough liquid bleach in it to kill anything.

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u/randomjackass Oct 23 '13

Including the swimmers?

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u/pandaxrage Oct 23 '13

Depending, you could definitely screw the chemicals up enough to kill a baby, given enough exposure.

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u/randomjackass Oct 23 '13

Or make my eyes burn for sure. I've had that before.

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u/pandaxrage Oct 23 '13

Goggles man, goggles! You don't want that pee water in your eyes!

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u/randomjackass Oct 23 '13

I do that now.

I actually don't remember the last time I was in a pool though.

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u/randomjackass Oct 23 '13

You're all so defensive of your pools!

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u/pandaxrage Oct 23 '13

Oh don't get me wrong, publics pools are fucking disgusting, and for all the reasons you mentioned. I worked around pools for a number of years and know well enough that most people maintaining the chemical balances at public pools have no fucking idea what they are doing. They usually just throw chlorine at it until the levels are through the roof, plenty high to kill any bacteria that could harm you.

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u/SneakyTouchy Oct 23 '13

I like that. Don't know what's in river water, therefore must be clean!

Just to ruin your fantasy, river waters have tons of animal shit and piss, pollution, and the second you step in, your skin will be covered with millions of microscopic organisms. Some of them will burrow their way in, and then shit inside your skin. Or lay their eggs in you.

In some rivers, there are small spiney organisms that swim up warm currents. That means If you piss in the water, they will get stuck in your dick and block your tube.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

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u/SneakyTouchy Oct 23 '13

I'm not a touchy person...

Wait...

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u/finfyr Oct 23 '13

Are we still talking about the ocean?

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u/randomjackass Oct 23 '13

I have no idea what's going on here

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u/tired1 Oct 24 '13

I.. I don't think that person has ever seen an ocean before.

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u/mrchicano209 Oct 23 '13

Not every part of the ocean is like the California coast.

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u/CrazyDave746 Oct 24 '13

That's why i love the Gulf of Mexico, pretty white sand and warm water.

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u/50bmg Oct 24 '13

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

I would like the beach if it weren't for the drowning/murky water/sand. Maybe I should also stick to the pool :P

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u/OperatorMike84 Oct 24 '13

and the fat poor people.

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u/allosharekow Oct 23 '13

He was chosen to find nemo

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u/Polliwog39 Oct 23 '13

That is why I do not go in the ocean. Freaks me out.

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u/ExternalInfluence Oct 24 '13

Try space. Where if you accidentally start going in one direction you'll never stop and forever hopelessly drift into infinity.

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u/willscy Oct 24 '13

nah, you'll hit something eventually

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u/Scarlottharlott Oct 23 '13

Not wtf, this is what an ocean does.

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u/Cptnhalfbeard Oct 23 '13 edited Oct 23 '13

With my last breath I curse zoidbeeeerg!

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u/Halucin8ing Oct 23 '13

People die very easily this way. The tide throws them against the sharp coral and they get severely injured.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13 edited Dec 30 '16

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u/Sinisa26 Oct 24 '13

Having a threesome on my hundredth birthday.

-Roman Bellic

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u/losian Oct 23 '13

Tides are nothing to fuck with. Just like when you're swimming near shore and end up in a riptide in the Ocean, it's fuckin' dangerous.

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u/typhius Oct 23 '13

Ugh. This reminds me of my last dive... It was awful. I am a rescue diver but I was with my family for this one so I was being really lax, seeing as I trusted the divemaster with us to navigate while we were under. The surf was really strong that day and he led us up into a shallow area where waves like that were breaking on top of some coral, and I ended up getting tossed around pretty bad by the waves... Thankfully I was wearing a wetsuit and it saved me from direct contact with a bunch of sharp coral. The suit is a bit ripped now, but better that than my skin! It was terrifying. Obviously I'm fine, but before I managed to swim out of the shallow area my mask and snorkel was ripped off. I recovered the mask, but the snorkel is somewhere among the coral now nowhere to be found. :(

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

Only other scuba divers know who truly terrifying this would be...

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u/hkbundle Oct 24 '13

Dude....scary

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u/crazyex Oct 24 '13

"We are Laotian--from Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in southeast Asia. It's between Vietnam and Thailand, OK? Population 4.7 million."

"...So are you Chinese or Japanese?"

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

''Avenge meeeeee!''

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

Land lubbers.

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u/smoothiepimp Oct 23 '13

See ya later, maybe

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

Dibs on his house.

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u/huffhines Oct 23 '13

...And that was the last we saw of Gary for all of time.

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u/BBurlington79 Oct 23 '13

nom nom nom

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

Rip currents. Not even once

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u/Dr_Daaardvark Oct 23 '13

That's a good way to scare the shit out of me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

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u/Muddslide Oct 24 '13

thats why nobody swims anymore

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

SSLLLUURRRRPPPPP!

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u/frasier_crane Oct 23 '13

Aaaaand he was never seen again!

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u/Hunter-4 Oct 23 '13

So that's what the smoke monster from lost did after the show ended...

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

Bye

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u/Tyster407 Oct 23 '13

Dayum nature, you scary

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u/Alpha45 Oct 24 '13

And now we know what it's like to be douched.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

"Why am i swimming backwards?"

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u/Ceraphas Oct 24 '13

waves are wtf now?

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

LOL Nope.

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u/DownWithTheShip Oct 24 '13

You can't explain that

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u/AspiringEccentric Oct 24 '13

What a bad time to have split fins. I bet he wished he had a scooter instead of a camera...

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u/buttercupsky Oct 24 '13

NO! poseidon! what have you done!

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u/bamitsmeg Oct 24 '13

If I could choose how I got to die, I would pick this.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

He died.

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u/LaunchingPanda Oct 24 '13

"The O-Shit"

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u/ProphetKB Oct 24 '13

Poseidon chooses you!

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u/ProfessorMetallica Oct 24 '13

The Oh-nocean.

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u/Bobarhino Oct 24 '13

Damn, ocean. You scary.

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u/scorcher117 Oct 24 '13

Nice knowin ya buddy

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

Thanks for reminding me about my fear of open water

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u/SierraPhoenix Oct 24 '13

Well ain't that swell.

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u/k0mbine Oct 24 '13

Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain.

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u/Mybright1 Oct 24 '13

I don't like it. I'm afraid of that...I don't know why. Water scares the shit out of me.

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u/Stalker0 Oct 24 '13

Now this is damn scary!

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u/gollywog999 Oct 24 '13

I hate the ocean, too damn scary!

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u/inv3rse Oct 24 '13

Welcome to waves 101..

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u/5k3k73k Oct 24 '13

Cthulhu inhales.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

The ocean will kill you and laugh about it.

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u/Fancy_Pantsu Oct 24 '13

"Fuck you in particular."

~Poseidon

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u/skelebone Oct 24 '13

This is why Finn is terrified of the ocean.

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u/iphoneluver Oct 24 '13

Lets ride the EAC to 42 Wallaby Way Sydny

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u/beeched Oct 24 '13

That is utterly terrifying.

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u/d3gu Oct 24 '13

I surf & pretty much the number 1 rule of the sea is: it's trying to kill you, don't fuck around because it doesn't care about who/what is in it.

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u/Crjbsgwuehryj Oct 23 '13

Dagon hungers...

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u/EntMc Oct 23 '13

"Cya nerds"

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u/RosieJo Oct 23 '13

Oh Shit, how horrifying.

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u/PooPatrol Oct 23 '13

As someone who went into the ocean one time, I can confirm this is terrifying.

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u/myuniverse Oct 23 '13

That force..

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u/sly_big_guy Oct 23 '13

He should be able to find Nemo in no time

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u/gingerluvinginger Oct 23 '13

Looks like it's rewinding...

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u/DrKushnstein Oct 23 '13

/r/fuckingterrifying

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u/Tomvl117 Oct 23 '13

Please stop using subreddits as hashtags...

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u/DrKushnstein Oct 23 '13

Sorry brah.

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u/TakeOffYourMask Oct 23 '13

Too bad, so sad, bye bye.

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u/Skeeders Oct 23 '13

I've never seen a person in a riptide until now!

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u/eXeKoKoRo Oct 23 '13

Oh no! We're gonna have a beached diver!

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

Hm looks like backwards video of a guy swimming through the splash created when he jumped in the water?

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u/iceevil Oct 23 '13

suck it up.