• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know. I was ~15 and I remember that the kid was bleeding a ton, the guide was pale as hell and the captain was gunning that boat to shore like a bat out of hell. That crack sound when someone hits their head really hard is something that stays with you.

    Since, even though I haven’t gone for a dive in like twenty years, I’ve been super annoying about telling people how to enter water. In pools too. I’m that annoying dude that tells kids not to dive head first into pools. Sorry, not sorry.

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      7 months ago

      dive head first into pools

      Do you mean with a scuba tank? What’s the problem if one dives in without a tank? Is the danger that they could decide to jump in from the shallow side?

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        7 months ago

        The context was in the four words prior, “tells kids not to”. You see it a lot. Little kids get excited, start diving in head first everywhere and some hit the shallows or bench, or steps. Thankfully, kids are light, bendy, and able to regrow teeth.

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        I guess if you go in on a steep angle you could face plant, but that would take some special sort of doofus to manage.

        Someone with no experience / knowledge copying another or something similar, maybe