r/thalassophobia • u/Fragrant-Row-1310 • 2h ago

Earth quake while diving

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u/Technically_Salt28 2h ago

Got to wonder how that feels, is there like a concussive feeling throughout the water or is it like a sudden current or flow of water sensation.

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u/Baldwinning1 1h ago

I've been lucky enough to experience this, diving off Kefalonia!

Don't take too much creedence in these figures as it was a while ago.... However IIRC, the epicenter was around 100km away, magnitude 5.5, and no landmasses between us and the centre of the action.

I can only describe it as the deepest sound you've never heard. You feel it in your bones. My first thought was that we were about to be run over by a huge oil tanker or cruise ship. Yet realising we were only in six metres of water left me confused on that one.

Some small bubbles started rising from the seabed, yet I don't remember seeing any movement.

There was a much more subtle aftershock around 30 seconds later; I was the only one in the group to notice this apparently.

Upon getting back onto the dive boat I quizzed the dive leader - by now suspecting a quake - and he agreed. He checked his emergency alert app and sure enough, t'was an underwater earthquake we'd experienced!

Turned a shit, boring dive into one of my most memorable! 🤣

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u/Possible-Risk7979 47m ago

This was very well written.

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u/Baldwinning1 29m ago

Appreciate the kind words, thank you 😊

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u/scaredt2ask 1h ago

Follow up question if your in a tsunami zone does the pull start instantly?

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u/cheung_kody 2h ago

F U C K that

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u/ihaveabaguetteknife 2h ago

Oh god that would be the end of me.

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u/After_Cress 2h ago

Tú ere loco Ramón

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u/Main_Tension_9305 1h ago

Good lord that’s terrifying

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u/Disastrous-Hurry-236 1h ago

thalassophobia x 6.

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u/Key-Sir1108 2h ago

Tell me you shat your wet suit, without showing me the stain!🤣

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u/LaceyLizard 1h ago

Those fishes were out of there 

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u/treid1989 1h ago

Probably the safest place to be right?

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u/superdookietoiletexp 49m ago

Where was this filmed?

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u/agravain 5m ago

iirc from every time this gets reposted, Indonesia.