A real rush..standing 10 feet from the edge of the Marianas Trench

by Gregor 8 Replies latest social physical

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  Gregor

  A few years ago I was in Guam and could walk out on the reef on the eastern side about 200 yards in water up to my waist. The water is a beautiful turquoise until one gets to the edge of the reef where there is a distinct color change to a dark, almost black, blue. I stopped about 10 feet from this dark line, knowing it was the edge of the 35,000 foot deep Marianas Trench. If I was a swimmer I could have swam out over the abyss. But I'm just a wader. Still an exhilarating experience. In the picture below Guam is the figure "8" shaped dark spot at the southern end of the Marianas Islands chain.

  
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  besty

  wow - takes a pair of brass ones to wade towards the Trench not being a swimer :-) maybe they're the reason you can't swim...
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  AudeSapere

  Very cool experience. Can't see the pic, though. (Maybe it's just me. My pc has been acting up lately.)

  -Aude.
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  DaCheech

  try this one:

  http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/02/swimming-at-edge-of-victoria-falls.html

  you need brass ones, anyway people are crazy to get their young ones involved!
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  Gregor

  Yeah that's it. I can't swim because of my big, brass ones! Actually, can't swim because I have a phobia of getting into water where my feet can't touch the bottom. This goes back to being held under water by a couple of JW assholes brothers when I was about 13.
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  DaCheech

  actually, when I was a kid..... the congregation was practicing the (DC) drama next to a swimming pool.

  some wiseass brother threw the PO with the cassette recorded drama in the pool.

  not only did this guy almost drown, but the cassette tape was ruined!
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  Satanus

  Ya, you got lotsa... I can swim and have scuba dove. However, i would be scared to do that. I might do it anyway, but i would be scared. Heck, maybe i would swim out over the trench, just to do it. Or, maybe not;)
  
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  Hortensia

  brings back memories. My father was in the Navy and we lived on Guam for 3 years when I was a kid. Great place to be a kid. I'd like to go back just to see it one day.
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  ohiocowboy

  WOW! That must have been a neat experience. I remember when I was young, I would swim out to the sandbars in Daytona, sometimes at night. I look back now, and wonder how I could have done that. Now when I am near the ocean, I am lucky to go into the water up to my knees!