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70% of the world is ocean, or so they say. So here's The Ocean Thread. Post here about the Ocean and/or the Seas.
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Feb 10, 2025 01:39
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Fillin up with bodies tho..
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Feb 10, 2025 01:42
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I have 3 (probably more) real moments with the ocean (I love it so much): 1 Swimming by myself in Australia 2 Swimming in the rain in British Virgin Islands, way out... 3 Swimming in the waves in Old Orchard Beach just this past October. It was 70F out, due to the tropical storm or whatever, and I picked my spot to swim. The waves were rough, huge, chaotic, the churn had me on a swivel at all times, bobbing out there in the maelstrom.... The key to surviving is you just keep diving down underwater. Everything is pretty chill down there...
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Feb 10, 2025 01:44
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gently caress the ocean!
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Feb 10, 2025 01:54
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Check out this map of the REAL ocean worlds of the solar system:
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Feb 10, 2025 01:57
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i have pissed in an ocean and i will never tell which one
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Feb 10, 2025 01:58
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i think that the ocean is cool.
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Feb 10, 2025 02:00
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I have so many ocean stories... Once, long ago, I was on a boat in Portland Harbor for the 4th of July. My old and familiar friend challenged me:Bet you won't dive in, redshirt! (he knew) After a lot of pomp and circumstance, I dove off the boat, in Portland Harbor with boats all about for the fireworks.... and I dove down, and down, and down and I kept going till some little idea bubble in my head said "hey" and I looked up 0 and I'll never forget that far away little shimmer of the surface....
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Feb 10, 2025 02:05
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just gonna leave this here
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Feb 10, 2025 02:19
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Bad Purchase posted:just gonna leave this here It's true, we suck.
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Feb 10, 2025 02:20
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Ocean man, take me by the hand Lead me to the land that you understand
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Feb 10, 2025 02:30
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I treasured the Olympic surfing competitions this past summer.....
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Feb 10, 2025 02:44
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i'm watching an Oceanliner Designs youtube rn
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Feb 10, 2025 03:10
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You can’t take the sea from me
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Feb 10, 2025 04:28
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i really appreciate the hoax that sea foam is actually whale vomit/sperm or whatever fluid that can come off them
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Feb 10, 2025 04:35
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The ocean is rad as gently caress but scares the poo poo out of me, specifically deep water.
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Feb 10, 2025 04:52
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Linux Pirate posted:The ocean is rad as gently caress but scares the poo poo out of me, specifically deep water. This. I get the heebie-jeebies just watching ocean documentaries.
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Feb 10, 2025 04:53
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:This. I get the heebie-jeebies just watching ocean documentaries. It sucks because seeing whales is on my bucket list, double points for swimming with them, but I think I'd be too afraid to actually do it. Like I could see them in a boat, but part of me wants to swim with them, and that is a primal fear of mine (swimming in the open ocean, plus hearing their calls in open water would probably make me freak out)
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Feb 10, 2025 04:59
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imagine all the undiscovered poo poo that lives at the absolute bottom of the ocean that we will probably never have a single sample of how these creatures look and function, almost like the equivalent of real life aliens but aquatic
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Feb 10, 2025 05:14
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Linux Pirate posted:It sucks because seeing whales is on my bucket list, double points for swimming with them, but I think I'd be too afraid to actually do it. Like I could see them in a boat, but part of me wants to swim with them, and that is a primal fear of mine (swimming in the open ocean, plus hearing their calls in open water would probably make me freak out) If Ulilia could face his fears and do it so can you Come to Mexico to watch some whales in Baja!
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Feb 10, 2025 05:42
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My brother got into free-diving in his twenties. He and friends would go for abalone, which you could only dive for without scuba. Holding your breath only. They were relatively good at it. He got to where he could hold his breath for up to two minutes. You have your wetsuit, snorkel and mask, fins, weight belt, dive knife, and a pry-bar thing, and a bag. Also did some spear fishing as well. I went a couple of times with him and it was pretty awesome. The best though was a family trip to Costa Rica. We didn't fish, but we did snorkel, a lot. There were reefs we could swim out to and then dive. We'd find a rock or coral reef down about 12-15' and we'd spot out places we could hold onto with our hand. We'd dive and just hang out, and soon enough schools of fish would come swimming right past us; some even stopping to look us in the face from a few inches away. There'd be 100+ sunfish just cruising by. Lots of others too that we'd later look-up to have a name for. Probably the most chill time I've ever had in the ocean. If you ever get the chance to go out into the ocean, with proper gear and knowledge of course, its a whole other world down there.
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Feb 10, 2025 05:55
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Linux Pirate posted:The ocean is rad as gently caress but scares the poo poo out of me, specifically deep water. I'm not sure what it says about me, but I actively love this very thing - it gives me a sense of belonging. I could just bob on the surface all day, without care. I love it.
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Feb 10, 2025 08:26
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The ocean is incredible and alien. We've mapped more of the moon than we have the ocean floor. We've discovered animals previously thought to be folklore. We've rediscovered animals that had been considered extinct for millions of years. Insane. If god is real, it lives in the ocean.
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Feb 10, 2025 12:48
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That's where batteries are stored.
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Feb 10, 2025 12:51
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I adore being in the sea but hate all beaches. The blue is so beautiful
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Feb 10, 2025 13:01
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upside down anglerfish looks like it's smiling  https://bsky.app/profile/the-independent.com/post/3lhsqysta3s2r
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Feb 10, 2025 13:30
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redshirt posted:I'm not sure what it says about me, but I actively love this very thing - it gives me a sense of belonging. So if a great white were to come from below and bite off clean your lower half would that cool? Because that would be a concern of mine!
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Feb 10, 2025 20:07
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Zefiel posted:So if a great white were to come from below and bite off clean your lower half would that cool? Because that would be a concern of mine! So here's a story: I was in the British Virgin Islands on vacation, and walked to this beach one morning in a light rain. The beach was completely empty, low tide. My thing is to just bob in in the waves, so due to low tide, I have to swim way out. And way out, further, I keep going because I am a crazy person of course, and I look back and the beach is truly so far away... But whatever, the water is calm, the rain is a light mist, I'm good, I'm bobbing. And after a while, out of the corner my eye I see a flash of grey break the surface and go back down, quickly. And I'm like, drat, was that a shark? I might have saw a fin... if it was a shark, what do I do?? I look down below me to see if I can see anything coming... I look back at the empty shore - so far, far, far away. I begin casually swimming and talking back to shore, doing the "swirl" technique (360 loops), "hey there, here I am, just this untasty, very bitter person, certainly not a meal, no sir, *whistles the national anthem.... And to my right a dolphin crests the surface and looks at me, and then dives down..... Such a moment. I chilled for a bit, but there was no other activity. I took it as a sign to head to shore asap.
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Feb 10, 2025 20:15
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redshirt posted:Check out this map of the REAL ocean worlds of the solar system: Man we really fell off, even Pluto is laughing at us.
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Feb 10, 2025 20:20
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Didn't know you were a seaman redshirt. A dyed-in-the-wool ocean nerd at that. You think you know someone ...
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Feb 10, 2025 20:21
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bitterandtwisted posted:upside down anglerfish looks like it's smiling I'm an expert in fish and when an upside down anglerfish does this it means they are partying
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Feb 10, 2025 20:28
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Shamewave posted:imagine all the undiscovered poo poo that lives at the absolute bottom of the ocean that we will probably never have a single sample of how these creatures look and function, almost like the equivalent of real life aliens but aquatic james cameron went down to the bottom of the mariana trench in a documentary and filmed a bit and I won't spoil it but if I were him I'd be mad
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Feb 10, 2025 20:31
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AcidCat posted:Didn't know you were a seaman redshirt. A dyed-in-the-wool ocean nerd at that. I love the ocean so much. It's beyond words, like more of pirate sea shanties and such.
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Feb 10, 2025 20:31
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redshirt posted:So here's a story: Lol that sounds like you completely made all that poo poo up just now.
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Feb 10, 2025 20:32
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Kmount da Hood posted:Lol that sounds like you completely made all that poo poo up just now. That's redshirt's gimmick. Many such cases. Many amazing stories fabricated whole cloth.
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Feb 10, 2025 20:35
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The ocean has pigs in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQNzfnywSo
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Feb 10, 2025 20:36
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^^^^^^ Redshirt was found in a crib completely surrounded by dead scorpions, greek-rear end myth origin story
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Feb 10, 2025 20:36
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my ex wife became a scuba tour guide in the ocean 
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Feb 10, 2025 20:38
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Kmount da Hood posted:Lol that sounds like you completely made all that poo poo up just now. Albert Einstein
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Feb 10, 2025 20:39
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Kmount da Hood posted:Lol that sounds like you completely made all that poo poo up just now. I have more fascinating Tales of the Sea to come!
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Feb 10, 2025 20:39
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