a different diving blog
What really draws you to the sea?
Is it the challenge? The peace? Is it the weightlessness, or the beauty, or the intense and wonderful blue?
What starts for most as curiosity becomes necessity. Our relationship with diving can be complex, but the sport changes lives and radically impacts our relationships with ourselves.
The Bathysphere is an attempt to understand that complexity. It is home to personal stories, to emotion, to art and to questions. Explore! Deepen your connection to the sea and to others. Get more out of the sport you hold dear.
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recent thoughts
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Reconciliation
The locals refer to the weatherbeaten shore at Gurnard Bay as the beach, though standing on this “beach” leaves one with not a blissful connection to the sand and sun but rather a mild discomfort, a stale taste; it smells of ripe, rotting kelp and bitter brine, and the wind tears across it…
how does
it feel
to be
engulfed
by something
so
unknown?
library
1500 — 1960
Browse a curated, personal library of books and poetry for divers and ocean-lovers alike.
about the author
Beck is a diver and writer who wanted to create a site that was a space for personal introspection. Read more about their story below and what the ocean means to them.
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