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A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging scuba quotes, scuba sayings, and scuba proverbs.
Best Scuba Quotes
- “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
- “Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.” ~ Nina Simone
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“I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka – it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.” ~ Julia Sawalha
- “I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.” ~ Bill Kreutzmann
- “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
- “I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.” ~ Ewan McGregor”I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.” ~ Tracie Bennett
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“I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.” ~ Paul Putner
- “I’m a person with a lot of affection for adventure – I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.” ~ Sebastian Pinera
- “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
- “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.” ~ Daniel Dennett
- “If I have a Sunday free, I’ll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.” ~ Parker Stevenson
- “I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.” ~ Casper Van Dien
- “I look really good in a scuba suit.” ~ Alison Brie
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“I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I’d never done which was really, really, really cool.” ~ Ashley Scott
- “I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It’s just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.” ~ David Attenborough
- “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
- “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
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“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke
- “The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” ~ Jules Verne
- “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
- “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
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“You are either losing your mind — or gaining your soul.” ~ Julia Cameron
- “I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.” ~ Bernie Mac
- “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
- “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
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“Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an exotic paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.” ~ Leatrice Eiseman
- “I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I’ve always wanted to do.” ~ Minka Kelly
- “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
- “Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.” ~ Iggy Pop
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“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
- “Growing up in Alaska, they don’t really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn’t really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.” ~ Holly Madison
- “Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.” ~ Sylvia Earle
- “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 want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.” ~ James Patterson
- “Mood has a scuba section? Who knew?” ~ Tim Gunn
- “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
- “I don’t have to tell you folks about scuba diving. So, that’ll save some time.” ~ Emo Philips
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“I think participating in “Gishwhes” is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast-food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.” ~ Misha Collins
- “Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they’d still be in the boat.” ~ Mark Hoppus
- “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
- “When I’m looking for Zen and I’m not saying this facetiously at all – I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it’s not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it’s all this stuff.” ~ Edward Norton
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“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 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
- “I am a certified PADI Divemaster and a technical scuba diver. That is to say, I am involved with decompression diving where we dive to depths of 300 plus feet. But I was also recently certified for the Atlantis rebreather, where we dive to shallower depths ranging from about 60-130 feet.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “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
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“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
- “In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater – It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans’ depths.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “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
- “My favorite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.” ~ Buzz Aldrin
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“I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.” ~ Cheryl Hines
- “[The Maldives] they’ve become deeply politically engaged – just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.” ~ Bill McKibben
- “Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.” ~ Max Brooks
- “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” ~ Nicholas G. Carr
