Comments on: I Clearly Need To Get My Scuba Certification http://dethroner.com/2007/03/29/i-clearly-need-to-get-my-scuba-certification/ Where every man is king. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:03:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mark http://dethroner.com/2007/03/29/i-clearly-need-to-get-my-scuba-certification/#comment-52591 Mark Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:53:36 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/03/29/i-clearly-need-to-get-my-scuba-certification/#comment-52591 Get it anyway. There's nothing like it. The past 10-15 years the Ad-Wizards at PADI have been dumbing down scuba diving and passing it off as a tranquil, peaceful, fun for the whole family activity, only to have their asses handed to them by the rise of Extreme-anything sports. Anyone who's trying to fight against the current of the massive bombardments of "diving is fun! diving is safe! diving is fashionable and fun for the whole family!" always go TOO FAR in the other direction and come off as misogynist chest-thumping Navy SEAL wannabes that would even make Richard Marcinko say "dude, take it easy." The coast of Cuba probably has just as many shipwrecks as anywhere else, but no one is really allowed to dive there too much, so they've yet to be discovered. It's also relatively (compared to say, the Cayman Trench a hundred or so miles south) shallow and within the realm of normal recreational divers. A friend of mine is an underwater photog and author of a few books specifically about shipwrecks in this region and just got back from a research trip to Maria La Gorda off the south coast of Cuba and has been raving about it while trying to set up an expedition to go back to search & catalog. Get it anyway. There’s nothing like it. The past 10-15 years the Ad-Wizards at PADI have been dumbing down scuba diving and passing it off as a tranquil, peaceful, fun for the whole family activity, only to have their asses handed to them by the rise of Extreme-anything sports. Anyone who’s trying to fight against the current of the massive bombardments of “diving is fun! diving is safe! diving is fashionable and fun for the whole family!” always go TOO FAR in the other direction and come off as misogynist chest-thumping Navy SEAL wannabes that would even make Richard Marcinko say “dude, take it easy.”

The coast of Cuba probably has just as many shipwrecks as anywhere else, but no one is really allowed to dive there too much, so they’ve yet to be discovered. It’s also relatively (compared to say, the Cayman Trench a hundred or so miles south) shallow and within the realm of normal recreational divers. A friend of mine is an underwater photog and author of a few books specifically about shipwrecks in this region and just got back from a research trip to Maria La Gorda off the south coast of Cuba and has been raving about it while trying to set up an expedition to go back to search & catalog.

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