Scuba Divers Have More Fun Than Land Lovers

Look at yourself in the mirror. Now back at me. Now look at your friends. Now back at yourself. Notice anything? That's right, you're more awesome. It's a quantifiable fact that scuba divers are more awesome and have more fun than average people who shall be hereafter be referred to as landlubbers. Paddy's been saying it for years but scuba divers really do have more fun and here's a fun list why we have more fun. Hi, I'm Mark and I'm having more fun than others in the office because I'm a scuba diver and here are five reasons why. Number one, experience things that no landlubber could. Oh, you watch Blue Planet too? I lived it. There's nothing like being weightless, floating in a three-dimensional world, swimming around and watching the marine life swim around you. Okay, you go and see the Great Wall of China and other wonders of the dry land but I've explored sunken shipwrecks that only a handful of people have ever and could ever see and at the same time, you can wee in your wetsuit and not get a second glance. There's even a hand signal for it but when I wee myself in the National Museum on dry land, I get escorted out of the building. Yeah, what's that all about? Number two. No, not that number two. It's a great way to meet new people. So yes, you landlubbers have a thing called Tinder but there's no real guarantee that you'll have the same interests. The best way to meet new people that you're practically guaranteed to get on with is to share a cramped cabin with them on a dive boat and whatever experiences you have on the dive trip, you'll share with your new friends forever. So you can add them on Facebook as soon as you get back home and find the internet and then never speak again. Fun! Number three. We have our own language. I'm not just talking about the specific terms and acronyms we use but the hand signals that we stole from deaf people. Scuba divers are very animated when we talk and we talk with our hands a lot. Just try and describe a spiral staircase for me now without moving your hands. It's hard, isn't it? Having your picture taken, try and do it without throwing up your scuba diving gang sign, the shaka or the okay sign. Number four. Travelling to new locations. Scuba diving has taken me from the Arctic Circle all the way down to Madagascar. You'll learn how to say thank you in a dozen different languages and have fun with the local boat crew even though you barely speak a word to one another. There's no queues to get into a shipwreck or swim around a reef but try getting into Shrek Adventures London at happy hour. You'll be queuing longer than you're in the place. I still can't believe that Shrek. Number five. Get away from technology. Watching our clip on social media. Modern cell phones and technology doesn't work on a dive boat apart from your dive computer and sometimes not even that will work. You can unplug yourself from Facebook, some MySpaces and Instagrams and look up and talk to real people for a change. Rather than looking at pictures to inspire you, all you have to do is look left and right to see awesome things that inspire before the week is over and you head back home and plug back into the matrix to upload your pictures for all to see on Facebook. So there are reasons why scuba divers have more fun than the dry-haired landlubbers who love their dirt so much. You're controlled by gravity man and you need stairs to go up and down in your world. Losers. Back on topic. If you have any other reasons why scuba divers are more fun, let us know in the comments and there may be another list similar to this in the not-too-distant future maybe. We don't do that. But we get to mention our followers' names. We do. People love that. They do. Don't you? Safe diving. We are an online dive store serving the UK and the world for all your diving equipment needs. So why not visit us at simplyscuba.com or click the box on your screen.