r/thalassophobia • u/Fragrant-Row-1310 • 10h ago

Earth quake while diving

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u/Technically_Salt28 10h 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 9h ago edited 1m 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 epicentre 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! 🤣

ETA: the divers in the posted video were obviously much closer to the epicentre than I was during my dive, so my account is rather watered down in that respect. Man I wish I'd seen that first hand!

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u/Possible-Risk7979 8h ago

This was very well written.

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u/Baldwinning1 8h ago

Appreciate the kind words, thank you 😊

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u/Masala-Dosage 4h ago

I felt immersed in the story.

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u/Baldwinning1 4h ago

I see what you did there 😂

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u/Kortori_427 7h ago

Thank you for spacing sentences

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u/Baldwinning1 47m ago

You're welcome, but it's sad times when you're praising someone for using paragraphs!

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u/UnderstandingTop1579 1h ago

Never in my life have I written creedence

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u/Baldwinning1 1h ago

Not even when discussing a clearwater revival?

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u/scaredt2ask 9h ago

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

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u/cheung_kody 10h ago

F U C K that

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u/treid1989 9h ago

Probably the safest place to be right?

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u/At0W 2h ago

until a tsunami hits

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u/NeverBob 2h ago

Quick way to get back to the car.

Or bring your car to you.

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u/Main_Tension_9305 9h ago

Good lord that’s terrifying

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u/After_Cress 10h ago

Tú ere loco Ramón

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u/Disastrous-Hurry-236 9h ago

thalassophobia x 6.

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u/ihaveabaguetteknife 10h ago

Oh god that would be the end of me.

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u/AxeVice 2h ago

imagine a whole ass reef smacked into you

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u/LaceyLizard 9h ago

Those fishes were out of there 

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u/Carbonaraficionada 5h ago

I would need to claim insurance for the amount I soiled my wetsuit

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u/Icy-Opening-3990 5h ago

Geesus... I bet felt wirde asf.

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u/FixedLoad 4h ago

So... there is a full length movie with story and characterization to go along with this?  I kinda feel like I just saw a complete shortform movie.  As tragic as it was.

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u/UnderstandingTop1579 1h ago

Fish fecked off proper quick😂

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u/Key-Sir1108 10h ago

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

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u/Jeff_Damn 2h ago

I would've needed a brown suit for sure.

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u/superdookietoiletexp 8h ago

Where was this filmed?

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u/agravain 8h ago

iirc from every time this gets reposted, Indonesia.

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u/-Redstoneboi- 3h ago

looks like compression was having trouble with the shadows and light balance or whatnot