Lifestyle
What's lifestyle all about? Without going too deeply into details, I'd say that it's about what we do and more specifically the way we do it. Never expect people to adopt your lifestyle; accept theirs, and demand that they accept yours. To freely cite Larry Wall: "Be extremely restrictive with what you emit, and extremely permissive with what you receive". I once read this in a programming manual on creating interfaces, but I think it adapts nicely for human relations as well. Tolerance, its called in everyday lingo.
Materialism, and its opposites
Diving
Materialism and its opposites
This section will soon be filled in with the english version of the tract on the theory of material obesity. Meanwhile, the swedish version can be read here.Diving
PicoMedia has a very serious diving commitment. This section will tell you more about what it's all about.Introduction
Philosophy
Links
Introduction
There are as many syles of diving as there are divers. PicoMedia's diving passion is centered around diving as a way of finding the ultimate thrill, which of course is something that is highly individual. For the PicoCrew it boils down to diving wrecks and quarries in often cold and murky water.
Philosophy
If I should give one recommendation, that would be dive progressively. Progressive diving means don't try to do everything on the first dive! Head forward, technically and personally, but do it slowly and only try one new thing at a time. First of all you must feel safe with your equipment, then you feel safe with your environment, then you can change environment, and so on. Any sensible dive manual would tell you about progressive diving, and the bottom line is: don't put yourself in a situation that you cannot handle. So far everyone agrees, but where opinions diverge is concerning how to do this or what is the best way to become a responsible and independent diver.
Diving and specifically the way you dive is personal. I don't preach for a universal diving method, and this is my very personal opinion. The well known world-wide scuba diving schools all teach that you should never dive alone. Me neither, I don't dive alone, but there is one problem with the politically correct message that is tought by the leading diving schools. Don't rely on your dive buddy for saftey! Make sure thet you have experience and training enough to be where you are, and make sure that you've got the gear to make your diving safe, without relying on instant rescue from your buddy.
Links
Gasgruppen is a swedish group of technically advanced wreck/cave-divers who have explored and shot numerous quarries. You'll find loads of high-quality videos on wreck and quarry-diving on their site.