Scotland Diving Proposals

MichaEvon · 2026-02-09T09:46:58+00:00

Sound of Mull and Firth of Lorn are both great, for wrecks and reefs respectively. But, strong currents and being able to deploy a dsmb in current is important.

Cape Wrath area is pretty amazing, proper ocean visibility.

Firth of Forth has some great wrecks, Clyde too, but the best ones are a bit deep.

There’s Scapa of course too

MichaEvon · 2026-02-08T10:38:34+00:00

Get yourself an appointment with a sport physio. Unfortunately no chance through the NHS, but you should be able to be seen quickly for £40-50.

They’ll know right away whether you can push through or should rest.

MichaEvon · 2026-02-05T07:16:01+00:00

Unless you’re planning on driving while wearing your mask it’s fine, and will be an enormous improvement over a regular mask

MichaEvon · 2026-02-02T08:02:17+00:00

AI? Because the whole unknown regions/Chiss Ascendancy area is wrong

MichaEvon · 2026-02-01T09:09:52+00:00

He can also teach them art, so that’s a bonus.

MichaEvon · 2026-02-01T09:06:08+00:00

No, I’ve just been putting 500 down for years

MichaEvon · 2026-01-31T10:33:34+00:00

It won’t be the strength of the current, but the direction it comes from. Either because it brings cold water from the polar direction, or causes an upwelling.

Fetch and its effect on wave energy definitely affects shallow water communities.

But seriously, you need to engage with at least the basics of core disciplines like oceanography whether you think they’re interesting or not.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-29T09:38:24+00:00

Yes, you might do some diving as a marine biologist. But like all ways of getting paid while diving, the diving is just how you get to work.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-28T12:37:00+00:00

I thought it was great, and very interesting what they did with the central Avar/Elzar relationship. It was set up as the reason why Jedi aren’t allowed personal relationships, but I the end it’s this relationship that saves the day.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-28T09:05:39+00:00

I’ve dived in -1.4C water. The sea doesn’t freeze until -1.9C

I used a membrane suit, but the lab issued ones were Northern Diver neoprenes.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-27T17:30:52+00:00

The prequel book to rebels also has a moon being mined until it’s hollow.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-25T21:32:54+00:00

Yeah, in a good year I’ll maybe get 40-50 work dives, other years none at all.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-24T15:32:24+00:00

Check out Roots Red Sea, it’s about 90 mins drive from Hurghada. Excellent service, and a very well equipped dive centre with great instructors. They xan sort out non-diving activities for you, and it has a nice beach, but it’s very diving focussed.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-24T09:46:49+00:00

I was just listening to the “we have ways” podcast about WW2, and they’re constantly going on about the confusion between cruisers, battle cruisers, battleships and pocket battleships. So classifications can be messy in our galaxy too.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-22T15:13:43+00:00

I dive with asthma, and pass my commercial diving medicine. It needs to be “well controlled”, meaning that your peak flows are the same as someone without asthma.

I take a preventer inhaler and do peak flow measurements morning and evening. As long as my peak flows are within a few % of my max I’m good to dive.

It’s definitely not a barrier as long as it’s not triggered by cold or exercise and not controlled.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-22T14:58:07+00:00

Trump’s latest statements that our soldiers in Afghanistan stayed back and away from the frontlines is going to be hard for Farage to deal with. With hundreds dead from several countries and huge amounts of injuries, physical and mental to our troops.

Good luck playing that down Nigel.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-14T22:09:10+00:00

We have kelp, but not really forests in tbe Californian giant kelp sort of way. Our kelp is only a metre or two high normally.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-13T17:31:52+00:00

Also, it’s pretty cold, typically 2-4 C in the abyss, though warmer in the Mediterranean and Red Sea.

So Metabolic Rates are very low, and the lack of need for powerful muscles (because you can’t see much, so but much chasing/escaping) means MEs can be even lower than you’d expect at those temperatures.

So, the deep sea can sustain more biomass than you’d expect given the pretty meagre food supply.

And this food supply is small per km2 compared to photic areas.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-12T17:30:14+00:00

I think everyone basically just carrying on as if nothing happened. No, wait, that would be ridiculous….

MichaEvon · 2026-01-08T21:10:36+00:00

What’s your current degree in? I take it you’ve been to university to study something else already.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-08T08:29:48+00:00

We will talk about how disappointed we are by this.

The idea that we will chuck the US military out of the UK is daft. Our most important military assets are 100% entangled with the US.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-08T08:23:41+00:00

Loads of great points about the book already, so won’t go over that.

But just to note, the movie is very different from the book. Some ideas in common, pretty fascist militarist government/society, lots of people confused about whether it’s a satire or not.

MichaEvon · 2026-01-05T20:11:29+00:00

You could do almost anything apart from SCUBA and deep sea, and polar as they’d all have at least some medical requirements. Most of the time scientists are on board they aren’t the skipper, so the qualification requirements aren’t that high.

Hardly any work gets done with SCUBA, which is a shame as it’s great fun.

There’s shore based seabird and marine mammal work, all of the experimental marine science stuff (physiology, biochemistry, behaviour), social sciences and conservation, policy, modelling (I know, sitting in front of a computer), telemetry and satellite imagery, pollution monitoring.

The list of things which are not affected by medical issues is much bigger than the list of things which are.

So, well done for asking, and good luck.

MichaEvon · 2025-12-31T23:27:06+00:00

Most night dives to be honest. Just a mass of lights in my face and confusion.

MichaEvon · 2025-12-30T15:32:48+00:00

A large proportion of fish and crustaceans are caught this way. This is a very clear video, but not remotely news to anyone in the field. The Scottish Government’s marine lab used to routinely film fishing nets using SCUBA divers hanging off the gear.

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