Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today we're throwing it back all the way back to episode 200 back in 2016. And it's a throwback Thursday episode of course. Kurt is the host at the time. And we're talking about scuba diving and adventure travel through scuba.

And, you know, I'm from Florida.

I was, when I took over to this show, I was living out in Colorado.

That's where the show was born and raised, as I like to say.

But it has since moved back to Florida with me.

And as you know, there's a lot of water here.

And our planet itself

is surrounded by water. Basically, two-thirds of the world is covered in water. And I just went to the

aquarium here in Tampa or near us in Tampa. And it just, it's such an amazing place. The water, it's

just, we think of it as, at least me, is this horizon of blue

or just, you know, this impenetrable kind of medium, unlike the mountains that you can like

go explore. To me, when I see mountains, I'm like, I can walk over there. I can go over there.

And there's all this stuff in between and almost wrongly

don't make that same assumption about the ocean or about all, you know, water in general until I do go

snorkeling or kind of peer into that other side of the water with something like goggles.

You know, these things that allow us to access it,

open up this world.

And I'm falling more and more in love with water.

And I needed now.

I didn't realize how much I needed it when we were out west,

but water is just fantastic.

So I've almost kept scuba diving at arm's length because I'm afraid of how

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