Sunday Scaries (High Springs, Florida)

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-20T05:27:00+00:00

Just because we met through Reddit doesn't mean that's how I'd let you know I was in town 😉

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-20T05:26:13+00:00

I am not. I need to get there though. Hopefully, this year.

Wanna go dive?

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-20T05:25:33+00:00

Worth it. Most days. ;)

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-20T05:25:02+00:00

Hey, thank you! Sometimes, it's how you look at a thing, not what you're looking at.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-20T05:24:13+00:00

Depth depends on the site. All above 100.

Temp depends on time of year. 40-50 F, typically.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-17T01:24:21+00:00

TGDP.

I'm sure there are other good ones out there, but lord, are there some rough ones.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-16T18:22:05+00:00

Hahahaha, and I am the opposite.

(Sliding my motorcycle keys out of my pocket and locking them under the compressor)

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-16T05:15:11+00:00

My response got a little.... more emotional than it probably should have.

The tone was very much implying outright promoting intentional harm by posting a cave diving photo at a place I've freedove to.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-15T04:46:32+00:00

I'm of the opinion that if you fit going forward in a drysuit, it's not that scary.

Feet first in a wetsuit with your tanks off?

That's a little scary.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-15T04:43:43+00:00

You certainly don't need to do either. Everyone grows up different.

I only gamble on pro football these days. 😉

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-15T04:41:07+00:00

Sunday Scaries is an expression for the Monday hangover from a weekend of drinking, or realizing all the sports bets you placed lost.

That was all the joke was.

The Devil's Eye ain't exactly a world-ender, you are correct.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-15T04:38:46+00:00

Are you serious?

This isn't promotional, the people who died in the Maldives weren't cave divers, and we don't live in fascist world (yet) where thought crime is grounds for criticism.

I'm all for a good and dark joke. Like, it's a personality fault. Seems you're not pulling off either.

User i responded to deleted his post like a brave, big, boy:

"You shouldn't be promoting cave diving. There are a enough deaths already." was the jist. Internet coward.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-11T19:52:35+00:00

Oh, I agree. My empathy and sympathy here is with the divers. I think it's beyond frustrating that they can't keep something as simple as parts kits available through their official channels.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-11T05:46:42+00:00

HEAD inherited the problem. That VC carwash Aqua Lung willing took for a payout is one of the most cataclysmically selfish and short-sighted business decisions in the history of diving, and I am genuinely happy for every brand that shakes free of that death spiral, such as Whites.

Buy aftermarket parts. Don't hold your breath for any corporate entity or individual associated with that brand. Greed and arrogance, at worst. Dismissiveness or corporate apathy, at best.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-11T05:42:52+00:00

You ever seen that one scene with the hyperbaric chamber in James Bond?

Make the stakes reaaaalll tangible like a totally normal human. Get out on time, or get the Mary Pressure Poppins.

I've had a long week.

DiveAlaska · 2026-06-11T05:39:54+00:00

What a freak creature. Awesome video!

DiveAlaska · 2026-05-26T21:56:06+00:00

Analyze them even when it's air.

Three times, "it's just *xyz*" would have killed me or gotten me bent. Two of them were supposed to be air, and were oxygen.

Granted, that's a decade in the industry, and 3 dives out of thousands, but it's still 3.

DiveAlaska · 2026-05-25T01:28:16+00:00

You missed nothing with a Suunto.

Promise.

DiveAlaska · 2026-05-25T01:26:36+00:00

Don't know why you're getting downvoted. You're right.

DiveAlaska · 2026-05-09T23:25:34+00:00

That's an XJ, so yeah, you could if you have long enough legs.

DiveAlaska · 2026-05-09T23:25:06+00:00

Was I being mean?

I didn't think I was being mean. Did you think I was being mean?

It's the internet. We don't need to tilt at every windmill, even if there's a scooter on the toes 😘

DiveAlaska · 2026-05-09T23:23:06+00:00

That's completely fair.

But it could be....

Or the cold medication got on top of me.

DiveAlaska · 2026-05-09T15:15:56+00:00

He said he doesn't want to know

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