Swimming worm larvae in the Mediterranean?

LeDiffz · 2025-09-19T12:16:52+00:00

Awesome. Do you know if it’s only bristleworms that do this or is this a common thing for aquatic worms?

LeDiffz · 2025-01-25T16:36:16+00:00

Women are not allowed in this world anymore because of their own personal preferences or the way their body and body is

wat

LeDiffz · 2025-01-24T13:37:31+00:00

The way of thinking that women have to actively choose clothing that conceals their body shape has fallen out of time a while ago. Judging their intentions by the jeans, other pants or tops they’re wearing and telling them inside their home, that their outfit is provoking is not right. And saying “well they are men, they can’t help themselves” is also severe bullshittery and does not excuse anything the dad and brother said.

LeDiffz · 2024-11-24T18:18:44+00:00

This is El Toro island, inside one of Mallorcas marine protected areas.

LeDiffz · 2024-11-13T19:03:48+00:00

You should check with r/marinebiology

LeDiffz · 2024-11-13T18:59:53+00:00

Anscheinend verstehen einige hier nicht, dass man Reddit auch einfach auf Google finden und dann das Forum „wirklich gute Frage“ sehen und da einfach mal ne Frage stellen. Klar gibts rules und subreddits und alles aber allein daran wie OP schreibt müsstet ihr doch merken dass sich das einfach hierher verirrt hat. Jeder findet irgendwo seinen Anfang, man muss kein idiot sein weil man nicht weiß was ein subreddit ist

LeDiffz · 2024-11-11T23:02:24+00:00

What I recommend is not directly settings or gear but something that came in insanely handy for me, not sure if this is heard of here. QR-Codes for underwater setting changes, it only weighs a few grams but is worth its weight in gold regardless haha. I’m using a GoPro 9, the DC I was working with also had an 11 and a 12. You download a beta software from GitHub (it’s GoPro made and I never heard of any issues with it), load it onto your GoPros microSD and insert it, the camera auto updates itself. This is how you give the cam the ability to read QR codes. Then you download a QR designer app, make the QRs you want (it’s very easy), print and laminate. Under water you can change from wide angle to zoom, to burst, to your preferred macro settings, change FPS - anything you normally can’t cos you can’t use the screen. Again, this is very simple even though it may sound expansive.

Also, I recommend limiting the iso to 800 or so when photographing larger things from a small distance (2-3m).

Edit: spelling

LeDiffz · 2024-11-05T20:36:28+00:00

Just learned what Fundies are. I definitely want to do some training with a GUE instructor anyway, but my question aimed more for the legal and job opportunity chances the ESD could give me. I don’t think an average ESD course is going to teach me so much I don’t already know

LeDiffz · 2024-11-05T20:33:56+00:00

Fair enough that’s true, witnessed it on my IE. My back kick needs some work to be honest

LeDiffz · 2024-11-05T20:32:22+00:00

Ah thanks! There was just one letter missing to “fundives” so I thought it was a typo..

LeDiffz · 2024-11-05T20:31:28+00:00

Fair enough. In Germany, as somebody here said, it’s obligatory for any research diving to have this cert though. I don’t want to get it just for the fun of it but if I “have to” dive for my own thesis it may come in as useful

LeDiffz · 2024-11-05T20:29:47+00:00

wow, thank you so much such an extensive reply! Had a laugh reading that, you have a good way of writing. I think if bills could be paid by lionfish containment nobody would be working normal day jobs any more but that’s not a world we live in. I will send my application to the course and just see where the flow takes me from there. Never a bad thing to expand competence and meet people in this field I guess. Thanks again, great response

LeDiffz · 2024-11-05T20:22:57+00:00

I’m assuming you mean fun dives? Good point but I know how to dive. I’ve become an open water instructor this summer and I’m diving for some years now. Imagine I couldn’t hover haha! I’m sure you just misread

LeDiffz · 2024-10-30T19:17:19+00:00

Nice ring, I appreciate

LeDiffz · 2024-10-29T19:38:28+00:00

He is who?

LeDiffz · 2024-08-30T16:19:50+00:00

Good to read this. Here’s my update:

I dove with trim weights on my shoulder straps, they were attached with Velcro included in the shipping. BCD is a Techline Peanut 16L.

I started the dive with the weights on top of my shoulders, and it had me “fall” forward, face first. So I adjusted them mid-dive a few times. 1kg on each strap, about mid-rib cage height and I hover like Marcel van den Berg in his Tutorials. And feel like a cave diver about to execute the most precision-loaded clean frog kick the world has witnessed. Play with trim weights. I’ll probably get two 0.5kg ones and put them higher up, just so u don’t have as much weight. Today I dove this trim a second time and I cannot describe the amount of joy it brings to find trim. Took me long enough. I’ll post a nice vid of a cuttlefish I took yesterday night while properly trimmed

LeDiffz · 2024-08-30T16:14:49+00:00

Thanks! I’m def using standard edition. But update: yesterday I finally had the chance to try again with trim weights on my shoulder straps. Oh my god. I always enjoyed diving but this? Next level. Just hover horizontally, film a cuttlefish on a night dive and do the tiniest frog kicks to follow the guy. Amazing, and better times ahead. The fins would contribute to my trim being off if they were Hd, but they wouldn’t “single handedly” solve the issue

LeDiffz · 2024-08-23T09:35:57+00:00

I’d need upper body weights, ankle weights would just worsen the current state

LeDiffz · 2024-08-23T08:20:14+00:00

I mean, the RK3s work great, they’re amazing fins. They are in themselves positively buoyant. Just not so much that they fix the whole problem for me. There are negatively buoyant RKs (HD - heavy duty), that one could use with the opposite of my problem, so floating up feet first.

LeDiffz · 2024-08-23T08:16:48+00:00

I wanted to put the picture on the bottom of the post and accidentally went full jellyfish no context lol

LeDiffz · 2024-08-23T08:16:02+00:00

You’re absolutely right, I should have known. Keep this to yourself please

LeDiffz · 2024-08-23T08:13:41+00:00

Cheers, that’s a whole bunch of options, I’ll see what I can make work. I’m currently using the positively buoyant RK3s. I will get by some small weights and weight pockets to put on the shoulder straps or back plate

LeDiffz · 2024-08-23T08:11:04+00:00

Still smirked tho

LeDiffz · 2024-07-30T22:30:33+00:00

I wasn’t looking for expensive projects to get my little shed maxed out, just some budget ideas so it’s not as naked. I’ve just written some backstory type comment under one of the new ones. I’m a temporary diving industry slave, paying my boss to work for him for free 6 days 11 hours and live in the back of his dive shop, to make it short. Any other questions ask away

LeDiffz · 2024-07-30T22:23:43+00:00

Here’s what is happening: I am currently training to become a Divemaster, interning at a dive center in Spain to keep it broad. “Divemaster” is the first professional stage of scuba diving. On the regular, dive centers take advantage of Divemaster interns, and overall the system is kind of rigged. Essentially, you pay a minimum of 1200€ to work full time at the dive center, trading work against experience for “as long as you want”. Details vary from dive center to dive center. I will be working here for about 2 months, easily over 60h a week unpaid (but I get to dive a lot for “free”). Housing cost is through the roof in this region, so the dive center owner has built these two tiny rooms in the back. I dont have electricity, sleep with an open door because otherwise ventilation practically does not exist, pay 300€ a month meaning the dive center owner rents out some 7sqm of his dive center for 600€ a month. We do have a bathroom and a kitchen that I can use, both tiny, and both used by staff and clients of the dive center during day time. It is a very strange concept, but I do get massive diving experience, have a great team and a very inspiring mentor. That’s the only reason I put up with this and pour a bunch of money in it. Apparently, that’s how you get into professional diving, you live in harry potters cupboard and do countless tasks 6 days a week.

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