These scuba diving quotes will inspire you. Scuba diving is the activity of swimming underwater using special breathing equipment or the sport or activity of swimming underwater using scuba gear.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging scuba diving quotes, scuba diving sayings, and scuba diving proverbs.
Best Scuba Diving Quotes
- “I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.” ~ James Cameron
- “From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” ~ Dave Barry
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“Every time you dive, you hope you’ll see something new – some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn’t.” ~ James Cameron
- “Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a diver’s veins to fizz with carbonated blood until he died a ghastly, percolating death; and rapture of the deep, which took away his reason, filled his heart with false contentment, and drew him down into the ocean gloom.” ~ Stephen Harrigan
- “My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.” ~ Buzz Aldrin
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“When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.” ~ Benedict Cumberbatch
- “I want to do things – scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I’m an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.” ~ Teri Polo
- “I go scuba diving. I ski. Watch movies. I take a week of silence every three months in the wilderness. And, besides, I have fun all the time anyway.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.'” ~ Aimee Mann
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“I don’t have to tell you folks about scuba diving. So, that’ll save some time.” ~ Emo Philips
- “I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.” ~ Ewan McGregor
- “I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “I love scuba diving. I’m an avid diver. And, there’s this beautiful world that’s more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we’re destroying, for what? It’s heartbreaking to me.” ~ Blake Lively
- “The clock is ticking and you’re hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You’re either losing your mind – or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That’s why we were created.” ~ Julia Margaret Cameron
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“I had this aunt who had a career and traveled. She’d say things like, “When you go to college, I think we should go scuba diving in the summer. The scuba diving in Portugal is fabulous.” And I’d be like, “Portugal! Holy cats!”.” ~ Geena Davis
- “I was on this boat in the middle of the ocean scuba diving for this film I did, and I was with actor Mackenzie Cook, who is in it as well, and I didn’t have my phone on me. The producer of the film handed me over this phone and said “someone is on the phone for you Gemma,” and here I am completely in all of the scuba gear on with the tank on, and a helmet. My agent just went “dum, dum, dum, dum”(hums Bond theme song), and I just knew then, and I went ahhhh madness, and I was over the moon.” ~ Gemma Arterton
- “Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers – not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.” ~ Frederick Lenz
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“When we’re impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.” ~ Susan Collins
- “Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise.” ~ Elon Musk
- “There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure.” ~ Graham Hancock
- “Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.” ~ Freeman Dyson
