To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand diving. The buoyancy is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of trim most of the divers will float over a typical person’s head. There’s also diving’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into its characterisation- diving draws heavily from Cousteau, for instance. The divers understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the trim required to dive well, to realise that PADI courses aren’t just fun- they make you a better diver. As a consequence people who dislike diving truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humor in diving’s existential catchphrase “I hate snorkels,” which itself is a cryptic reference to their uselessness. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as they try to read dive tables. What fools.. how I pity them. joy

And yes, by the way, i DO have a scuba tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they have perfect trim and neutral buoyancy. Nothing personal kid.