{"id":1969,"date":"2011-04-11T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2011-04-11T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:14:12","slug":"how-to-get-your-face-and-thumb-bitten-off-while-scuba-diving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1969","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Your Face And Thumb Bitten Off While SCUBA Diving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I plan to finally get back in the water this coming Saturday, April 16th for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divevets.com\/front\/?p=711\" target=\"_new\">Divevet&#8217;s Easter Egg hunt.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to get my right ear to pop from the on going congestion that I&#8217;ve had, and have decided on a regimen of Sudafed and saline nasal spray to help.<\/p>\n<p>So, with that in mind, here is your weekly fluff to fill another post and let people know that I&#8217;m still alive and not in jail or the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The following videos are not new, but the thing is, I just found them while doing a search for &#8220;dumb SCUBA diver&#8221;  &#8211; something that I&#8217;ve only been called about a dozen or so times.<\/p>\n<p>When divers are in the water, the only time that they&#8217;re ever attacked is when marine creatures feel threatened &#8211; with the exception of maybe a test bite from a shark.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been attacked by a Garibaldi diving Catalina &#8211; apparently, they attack if you&#8217;re to close to where they laid their eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy Ivan was attacked by a red crab while lobster hunting off Cabrillo Beach a few years ago &#8211; remember that Crazy Ivan?<\/p>\n<p>But as I stated, these creatures who &#8220;attack,&#8221; attack with the perception of self defense.<\/p>\n<p>And then, there&#8217;s the dare devils and dumb asses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, if you ever get so comfortable to where you&#8217;re going to hand feed eels or kiss sharks on the lips, you will eventually suffer the consequences.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWARNING, THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS MAY BE CONSIDERED GRAPHIC BY NON-MACHO PEOPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the question to be asked &#8211; Does an eel know when the food stops and the hand of the one who feeds it begins?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"332\" id=\"247053\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" alt=\"Eel Bites Off Divers Thumb Funny Videos\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.break.com\/MjQ3MDUz\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/embed.break.com\/MjQ3MDUz\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=always width=\"400\" height=\"332\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>To watch this video on Break.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/index\/eel_bites_off_divers_thumb.html\" target=\"_new\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do sharks ever look pretty enough to play with, let alone kiss?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"332\" id=\"160357\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" alt=\"Dont Kiss Sharks Funny Videos\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.break.com\/MTYwMzU3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/embed.break.com\/MTYwMzU3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=always width=\"400\" height=\"332\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>To watch this video on Break.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/index\/dont_kiss_sharks.html\" target=\"_new\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After watching the above videos, I think that I may not be such a &#8220;psycho&#8221; diver after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I plan to finally get back in the water this coming Saturday, April 16th for the Divevet&#8217;s Easter Egg hunt. I&#8217;ve been trying to get my right ear to pop from the on going congestion that I&#8217;ve had, and have decided on a regimen of Sudafed and saline nasal spray to help. So, with that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}