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I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍

elodieunderglass

👍

#science stuff

salome-c

Moon Knight (2022)

Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector

Taglist: @mypedrom @the-little-ewok @fisforfulcrum @prettylilhalforc

#moon knight #mk gifs #steven grant

fangirl-fandom

i need this in my life

#star wars #sw gifs #poe dameron #finn

fullcravings

Rice Krispie Crunch Cookies

#food

atlanticflyway

Black-throated Sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata), Arizona, April 2025.

#birds

salome-c

Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector in Moon Knight (2022)

Taglist: @the-little-ewok @fisforfulcrum @mypedrom @prettylilhalforc

#moon knight #mk gifs #steven grant

spacelatinxs

— doris lessing

#star wars #sw gifs #poe dameron

rapidlydecayingcorpse

reverse suicide note where everyone you write on it dies

rapidlydecayingcorpse

wait

definitely-not-a-plant

and we could call it something like... murder note.. or something.. Kill note.. die note... we can workshop it later

#funny stuff

sexygrammaticalerrors

#funny stuff

salome-c

MOON KNIGHT (2022)

Taglist: @fisforfulcrum @mypedrom @the-little-ewok @prettylilhalforc

#moon knight #mk gifs #marc spector #steven grant #flashing gif

scarletwitchs

The A-wing had been part of his mother’s compensation package when Poe’s parents mustered out of the Rebellion some six months after the Battle of Endor, and it went with them to their new home in the fledging colony on Yavin 4. She’d continued to fly it for a couple of years after, mostly in civilian defense, and every so often she would take Poe up in it. He would sit on her lap inside the cramped cockpit, his hands on the stick and her hands on his, and he could feel the ship answering their control. He could feel them moving through the air, the atmosphere pushing against them, the pull of gravity trying to refuse them. Then they would break through the thin skin that protected the moon they called their home, and the Yavin gas giant would suddenly glow that much brighter against the darkness of space. All the push and pull of atmosphere and gravity would vanish, and it was as close to perfection as young Poe could imagine. He would stare up through the canopy and lose track of the stars and feel the freedom and the potential, that he could go anywhere, that he could do anything. That was when he knew that whatever else he would be, he would be a pilot.

Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka

#star wars #sw gifs #poe dameron

ellaandtheocean

Humpback whales breaching: gorgeous, majestic, graceful, embodies all the strength and beauty of the ocean

Minke whales breaching: I will launch myself out of this ocean like a f***ing surface-to-air missile to seek and destroy my enemies

gallusrostromegalus

I remember an interview with a guy that did the camera work for nature documentaries and he said that baleen whales like these guys were the scariest things to shoot because “They’re the size of a train, they can suddenly appear out of nowhere in dark or murky water and they don’t make a goddamn sound. I was absolutely sure that one of them was going to hit me and well, ‘that’s all folks!’. Gave me a lot of perspective on how I handle myself when filming smaller animals now.”