75 Scuba Diving Quotes

Following is our list of scuba diving quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about free diving.

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Famous 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

I like underwater life. — Hayao Miyazaki

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves. — Robert Wyland

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. — Cameron Bright

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning. — David Doubilet

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you. — Graham Hawkes

Here I go, deep type flow, 
Jacques Cousteau could never get this low. - Ol' Dirty Bastard

Here I go, deep type flow, Jacques Cousteau could never get this low. — Ol' Dirty Bastard

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. - Kathleen Quinlan

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. — Kathleen Quinlan

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. - Robert Ballard

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. — Robert Ballard

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff. - David R. Ellis

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff. — David R. Ellis

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. — Dennis Rodman

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light. — Ellen Meloy

Short Scuba Diving Quotes

  • Reality whistles a different tune underwater. — Tom Robbins
  • In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac
  • I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia
  • Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport. — Sharni Vinson
  • Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering. — Matsuo Basho
  • Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold. — Walter Darby Bannard
  • The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati
  • The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
  • It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion. — Fiona Apple

Scuba Diving Image Quotes

Scuba diving quote Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.
Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

Scuba Quotes

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

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

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

Scuba diving quote You have only got three choices in life give up, give in, or give it all you've got.
You have only got three choices in life give up, give in, or give it all you've got.

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase. — Paul Putner

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

You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul. — Julia Cameron

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

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

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

I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do. — Minka Kelly

Free Diving Quotes

It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what." — David Boudia

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving. — Julia Mancuso

For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin. — Stewart Brand

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

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs. — Tanc Sade

I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving. — Denzel Whitaker

Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold. — Tanc Sade

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving. — D. H. Lawrence

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More Scuba Diving Quotes

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel. — Nina Simone

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

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

My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive. — Buzz Aldrin

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 sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball. — Casper Van Dien

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool. — Ashley Scott

I don't have to tell you folks about scuba diving. So, that'll save some time. — Emo Philips

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters. — Sebastian Pinera

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

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

[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

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 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

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there. — Tim Ferriss

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman. — Bernie Mac

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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