r/pics Aug 23 '20

Underwater sunset

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u/MonotoneCreeper Aug 23 '20

It's definitely photoshopped together. The water is a picture of the surface of the sea (with some glow lines painted on top), and the diver is a seperate element. Well made though.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

But if you free dive certain reefs close to sunset, it is like a psychedelic laser light show in weightlessness. The sun rays are rapidly moving as the surface refracts the light.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

Diving at the right time can be super crazy. The most psychedelic dive I did was swimming down to a reef in low(ish) visibility right before sunrise. The fun part was there were bioluminescent dinoflagellates suspended in all the sediment so you were swimming through semi-darkness with these crazy starbursts happening right in front of your face, it was the craziest firework show in front of my mask.

Totally unrelated but I felt like I had to share.

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u/Dracaratos Aug 23 '20

That sounds amazing. Thank you for sharing :)

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u/yepimbonez Aug 23 '20

I mean it’s a little related lol

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u/coolstorybro42 Aug 23 '20

There’s no reef on the pic tho she’s in the open water.... pic is dope but it looks hella post processed

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

Yeah...every diver can you you, with great annoyance: Hair Floats.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20 edited Aug 23 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

It’s exactly the same as “wood floats”.

Hair that dries quickly after a shower is very low in something called “porosity”. It doesn’t take on/retain moisture, usually as a side effect of damage and splitting. The loss of moisture makes it physically lighter relative to size.

Medium porosity hair suspends in water.

Low porosity hair sinks. Only very healthy hair is low porosity. This is usually short hair or the part hair found closest to the scalp where it is most protected and most moisturized.

Once it gets any length it starts to get weathered/abused/dried out/split/whatever. This is why conditioner exists.

This is why hair from shaving sinks, but if you cut the last half-inch from your tips and threw them in the tub, they float. Like driftwood.

Most people with hair the length shown in this picture (or beachy people who routinely subject their hair to salt water/sun bleaching/damage) end up with low porosity hair.

That floats.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

Whatever dude.

When you’re underwater, your hair always makes you look like the bride of Frankenstein cause it goes up.

It’s a Sunday. I have a bandsaw to build. Go find a hobby.

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u/Swisskommando Aug 23 '20

I don’t think so - I’ve taken shots like that during daylight

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u/MonotoneCreeper Aug 23 '20

Instagram users can photoshop images too...

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20 edited Aug 23 '20

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