Diving is just a tool to do that other thing

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I see almost all divers get all excited and spend the money on lots and lots of gear but they have never figured what it was that about diving that would keep them active divers for the long haul.

I first started diving about 1976 and got my OW cert in 1979 at college ($25 for the class, yes it was a long time ago) and grew up in the Northeast US wreck diving circles. What got me was when I started going out to the larger off shore wrecks and looking at the engines and saying, how in Hell did they make and machine that casting, forging, etc. That got me into the history of steam and 29 years latter I am still doing it. I have some friends who have been around for just as long, if not longer, and they are photo nuts, or wreck nuts, or cave nuts, etc.But we all do something while diving that keeps us diving. Just check the for sale adds on this site and ebay for all the other divers who never found what they wanted to do, or found that diving was not a long term thing for them.

Diving is just a tool to do that other thing. I even know one guy who wanted to go deep to see the wrecks (Titanic and Bismark are just a few he has been to) and got into ROV's and went real deep. The last I heard from him he was now working with NASA on preliminary designs for autonomous ROV's that may one day be sent to Jupiter's Moons. So, you never know where or what this road may lead to.

So go out a dive, a lot, and figure out what your thing is and it just may be a sport you do on your winter vacation between breakfast and golf, which is absolutely fine all by itself.

我看到几乎所有的潜水者很兴奋的大把大把花钱在购买装备上，但他们几乎从来没有搞清楚在潜水中有什么东西会促使他们能够持久而积极的潜水。

我的首次潜水在1976年，并于1979年在大学里得到了OW证书（花了25美金支付课程，当然这是很久以前的事情），之后我在北美的沉船潜圈子里变成老手。吸引我的是什么呢？我潜了大量近海沉船，醉心于观察沉船的引擎和其它部分，并试图搞清楚船是怎么制造的，怎样去加工这些铸件，锻件的等等。时光飞逝，29年后我还乐此不疲。我还有些朋友也潜了很长的时间，他们是水下摄影迷，或者是沉船潜迷，或是洞潜迷。但是，相同的是我们在潜水中做的一些事情使我们能够保持潜水。只是在ebay上关心潜水设备优惠的潜水者，他们永远不会找到他们想做的，或者也许最后发现潜水对他们而言并非一个长期的活动。

潜水只是一个通往其它事情的工具。我甚至知道有个人想去很深，看沉船（泰坦尼克号和俾斯麦号是他去过的沉船的一部分），后来他用了潜水机器人真的去到很深。最后关于他的消息是：他目前为美国国家航空和宇宙航行局工作，准备设计自动宇航机器人，将来有一天将发射往木星的卫星。所以，你永远不知道潜水将这条路将领你通往何方。

所以，去做一个潜水，搞清楚你自己的事情。也许潜水只是在你冬季休假时早餐和高尔夫球之间的一个绝对不错的一个选择。

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