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I always loved this quote from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy (in Titus Groan, I think)...
"The love of the diver for his world of wavering light. His world of pearls and tendrils and his breath at his breast. Born as a plunger into the deeps he is at one with every swarm of limegreen fish, with every coloured sponge. As he holds himself to the ocean's faery floor, one hand clasped to a bedded whale's rib, he is complete and infinite. Pulse, power and universe sway in his body."
I first read the book years ago when I was a SCUBA diver, but it's much more pertinent to freediving. Recently I was delighted to see it on William Trubridge's website!
"The love of the diver for his world of wavering light. His world of pearls and tendrils and his breath at his breast. Born as a plunger into the deeps he is at one with every swarm of limegreen fish, with every coloured sponge. As he holds himself to the ocean's faery floor, one hand clasped to a bedded whale's rib, he is complete and infinite. Pulse, power and universe sway in his body."
I first read the book years ago when I was a SCUBA diver, but it's much more pertinent to freediving. Recently I was delighted to see it on William Trubridge's website!
My favorite quotes:
Pipin Ferreras:
"The fiber of a real man is not by looking at how many times he falls down, but by how many times he can stand up and keep going."
Yasemin Dalkilic:
"If you haven't had a problem down there, it just means that you haven't dived enough times."
The Bible:
"They that go down to the seas in ships, and do business in great waters; these see the works of the lord, and his wonders in the deep."
Pipin Ferreras:
"If you are thinking about ten different things, you're wasting too much energy."
Pipin Ferreras:
"The fiber of a real man is not by looking at how many times he falls down, but by how many times he can stand up and keep going."
Yasemin Dalkilic:
"If you haven't had a problem down there, it just means that you haven't dived enough times."
The Bible:
"They that go down to the seas in ships, and do business in great waters; these see the works of the lord, and his wonders in the deep."
Pipin Ferreras:
"If you are thinking about ten different things, you're wasting too much energy."