Diving aesthetics: why the sea is more beautiful than we describe
An attempt to describe the indescribable: an experience of underwater beauty that will leave every diver speechless.
Every diver has ever been asked: How was it? He paused for a second and then said, “I don’t know where to start.”
Why underwater beauty is different
Above the water, beauty is on the horizon and in what you see in front of you. Underwater beauty surrounds you from every direction. Top, bottom, sides, front and back.
The light that is not like itself
Sunlight underwater breaks, dances and moves with every little wave on the surface. It is a living light that you only see in the sea.
The silence that is heard
Under water, silence is not the absence of sound, but rather the presence of sounds that cannot be heard above water. The sound of fish pecking at coral, the sound of your bubbles as you exhale, and sometimes the sound of coral itself.
Different scale
A large fish passing in front of you with royal calm reminds you that your measurements of greatness were always wrong.
Whoever goes to the sea even once will not look at the surface in the same way. Something is changing. إلى الأبد.