Scuba Scuba facts
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Because of a botched surgery intended to repair a severely perforated eardrum, that actually caused permanent inner ear damage, Stephen Colbert wasn't able to scuba dive for a marine biology job he wanted which pushed him to comedy. The damage to his eardrum also left him deaf in his right ear.
The Bond Movie trope of James Bond scuba diving somewhere, surfacing, then removing the wetsuit to reveal an unblemished full tuxedo, was inspired by a WW2 Dutch Spy who used the technique to sneak into Nazi-controlled Netherlands.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about Scuba Scuba I managed to collect.
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Steve Irwin was filming a documentary in 2003 when he heard scuba divers went missing. He and his whole film crew stopped filming to aid in the 2 day search and rescue of the missing divers.
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MythBusters confirmed the myth that a scuba diver can wear a tuxedo underneath his drysuit, go underwater, resurface, strip off his scuba gear, and be able to present the tuxedo at a yacht party in the harbour as in James Bond Goldfinger.
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A 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife's remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was "... I want to go home", and he is determined to make that happen.
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A Cayman Islands dolphin who likes to rub himself off scuba divers, "sexually assaulting" them, his name is Stinky the Loner Dolphin.
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Three cleanup volunteers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant voluntarily suited up in scuba gear and swam into the radioactive water, knowing that they would die as a result, to open a gate valve allowing containmented water to drain out preventing a catastrophic thermal explosion.
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In order to rescue Ethiopian Jews, the Mossad bought and ran a profitable scuba diving resort in Sudan between 1982 and 1984. 8,000 people were safely smuggled to Israel.
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The Bajau People who live in the middle of the sea, rarely go on land, have no nationality, no fixed abode, no money and go spear fishing with no scuba gear, including oxygen tanks
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In 1989 a scuba diver was sucked up by an intake pipe of a nuclear power plant, dragged over 1,600 feet, and deposited in one of the reactor cooling ponds. He lived.
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Bajau people live in the middle of the sea, rarely go on land, have no nationality, no fixed abode, no money and they go spearfishing without scuba gear. Not even oxygen tanks.
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While awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice, David Friedland went scuba diving, faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops, the success of which helped him get caught.
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In 2009, the President and Cabinet of the Maldives held a meeting underwater - in SCUBA gear - to sign a declaration calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives is expected to disappear under rising seawater this century.
Scuba divers caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were reportedly tossed around underwater, yet boats floating above were unaffected and failed to notice the wave as it passed by. - source
Leonardo da Vinci designed a scuba suit.
There is a scuba club in Muff, England called the Muff Diving Club. - source
A documentary filmmaker and his crew were given unique permission to go on a scuba diving expedition 800 feet beneath the Hagia Sophia, one of the largest and oldest cathedrals in the world
A Seattle man trained to fight a wild 80 pound octopus, underwater, in it's natural habitat, without any weapon or SCUBA gear. He won the fight and then ate the octopus.
The narrator in the Spongebob was a french guy with scuba gear observing aquatic life
You cannot board a plane if were out scuba diving in the previous 18 hours. Because of the extreme pressure difference, you stand a high risk of slipping into barotrauma which can lead to paralysis.
Open Water was based off real events. A couple was accidentally left out in sea while scuba diving and was never found.