• rbn@sopuli.xyz
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    21 hours ago

    exhale enough air out my lungs to stop floating

    Get yourself a weight belt for scuba diving and you can expand your ground time a bit. Get a full set of scuba equipment and you can sit there for hours (depending on depth, size of your tanks and how relaxed you are). :)

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      16 hours ago

      I’ve never SCUBAd haha. I don’t know why, it makes sense, but I’ve never been drawn to it and I can’t really explain why. I love the freedom of movement and not having to think about other things.

      Feediving I can’t get enough of. But my record swimming underwater is around 2:10 and I enjoyed every second of it—relaxed, efficient, flowing—but I had to stop because it felt like I could do it forever. And that’s the paradox of shallow drowning. When the euphoria of the ocean gets inexplicably more euphoric, the Sirens calling, it’s time to surface. I guess like a diver checking their gauges.

      I should try SCUBA, though. I’d love to go deeper. I’d love to find a spot and just hang there for a long time and take it all in.

      • will@lemm.ee
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        13 hours ago

        Not to mention if you’re out on a surfboard you probably don’t want to be wearing a weight belt :)