Carlos Pena Jr. Quotes

If I didn't travel so much, maybe my perfect Sunday would be skin diving on a coral reef - not scuba diving, as skin diving is more physical, and I prefer the lightness of it. Skin diving means wearing just goggles. Oh, I could wear some trunks, maybe.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

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

I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements.

I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea - diving, swimming and snorkelling.

I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey.

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

I never liked going in the ocean.

I am not a fan of being under water.

I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you'll see why.

I really want to dive in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay in California. I hear it's like floating through a forest.

I'm in the water twice a week diving for lobster.

The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.

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

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Jacques Cousteau was my hero.

I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia.

We were shooting in a French island called La Reunion. One of my crew members gifted me free-diving equipment and took me to the waters on my day off. I spotted sharks and species of fish which can't be found elsewhere. It was a very refreshing experience for me.

I've always been a water baby.

In the spring of 1996, I was working for Nickelodeon on a show called 'Rocko's Modern Life,' and I was interested at the time in doing a show about the ocean, an undersea show.