Air Quote by Stephen Harrigan

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at…

— Nora Ephron

“Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for air, coughing…

— Laura Kreitzer

“On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with a tangible presence.  It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of deep water…

— Jack London

It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting…

— Marisha Pessl

When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was…

— Jack Ma

“Something, most certainly, happens to a diver’s emotions underwater. It is not merely a side effect of the pleasing, vaguely erotic sensation of water…

— Barry Lopez

Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and non-committinghands ...

— Ayn Rand

“There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in…

— Laren Grey Umphlett

“Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own breathing and…

— Tom North

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

— Anonymous

“The intoxication of leaving himself, of slipping into the void, of dispersing himself in the thought of water, made him forget every discomfort. And…

— Maurice Blanchot

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.

— Paul Putner