Yeah, I thought about studying marine biology as well, but ultimately went the zoology route. Which is possibly a good thing as I seem to get more and more seasick nowadays, so a life of research on the ocean was going to be unpleasant :/
Still love diving though, and Cephalopods are pretty much my favourite thing to see. I couldn't eat calamari for years after spending some time in the company of Caribbean reef squid after one of my first dives
To detail just how unsuited I am for it, I went on my first dive last year and vomited multiple times into my regulator, entering the water almost made my seasickness worse, and i felt nauseous for the next 12 hours!
They are an inquisitive group of animals and you can definately tell that there is a thought process occuring when observing them, maybe if I can find the right tablets I may get to see them in the wild one day.
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Ah interesting, so going under didn't stop the queasiness? Usually I'm fine once my head is under water.
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It most definately did not! :D
I put it down to the fact I think I was too far gone by the time we reached the dive-site.
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I've had dives like that :( My first couple of dives in Galápagos I was so seasick (despite having taken tablets) that I was throwing up until we got in the water. I was still fine once under, but the second we were up and bobbing, waiting for the boat, I got queasy and 2 mins back on board, did me in completely. It was a full day diving so yeah, not much fun. Even worse was that the visibility was awful and I missed a manta ray while clearing my mask 😑
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