Linus Torvalds 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.

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.

Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.

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'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 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.

Jacques Cousteau was my hero.

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 look really good in a scuba suit.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

All in all, the dives I made in Fiordland were some of the best I've ever made.

As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

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

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven.

I love the water; I love to swim.

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

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

I dive as much as I can.

I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.

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

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.

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

One of the sports I do - my wife thinks I'm nuts - is open-water spear fishing, what we call blue-water hunting. We get in a boat, and we go offshore, normally about 30 miles. So when you jump off the boat, there are no reefs, and the bottom is no longer fifty or a hundred feet: it's thousands of feet. It's sort of like being in outer space.