Ok so it’s the start of winter and as the water gets colder the neoprene gets thicker, the gloves get donned and the hood gets worn in a kind of claustrophobic sufferance.<\/p>\n
By now thoughts of exotic warm dive locations are distant memories and the shine of the idea of being a diver is starting to dull. Ten seconds later and as the sky <\/p>\n
disappears behind a choppy curtain so do all those little reasons why it is no fun to dive in winter.<\/p>\n
Onece I am down there in that alien world I have forgotten the preparation, forgotten the hours driving, forgotten the weight of all the gear and even forgotten the cold. <\/p>\n
It is a privilege that I treasure.<\/p>\n
Now I wonder what the gentleman looking down from above is thinking. Is he wondering what it’s like to dive?<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Wondering What It’s Like To Dive’ 1\/125s f\/11 ISO320 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok so it’s the start of winter and as the water gets colder the neoprene gets thicker, the gloves get donned and the hood gets worn in a kind of claustrophobic sufferance. By now thoughts of exotic warm dive locations are distant memories and the shine of the idea of being a diver is starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,113,367,122,34,674,70,673,24,111,112,88,489,671,672],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diver","tag-diving","tag-fun","tag-holiday","tag-jetty","tag-neoprene","tag-ocean","tag-onlooker","tag-people","tag-rapidbay","tag-scuba","tag-sea","tag-selfie","tag-southastralia","tag-spectator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}