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Underwater feast OR ABOUT, WHAT TO EAT UNDERWATER AND BEFORE DIVING Text MICHAŁ CZERNIAK RED
By the time you read this issue of Perfect Diver, it will be a new year 2024. May it be a wonderful and safe year for all of us, full of joy, fulfilling dreams and abundant in opportunities for further development in the field of our common hobby of diving and exploring the underwater world! Photo Michał Czerniak
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owever, before the New Year came with champagne corks shooting into the sky during the buzzing parties, our Diving Brotherhood had decided to say goodbye to the old, departing year 2023. As usual – because we had been cultivating this tradition for a long time – we planned to gather at one of the reservoirs in Greater Poland, go 3-4 meters under the water and drink a soda together. A soda, not champagne, because as the world is long and wide, it is known that divers avoid alcohol. When I was telling my non-diving friends about our tradition, I heard one question that repeated like a mantra: drinking a drink – but how? Underwater? I decided that it would be a good idea to write a few words about underwater consumption, because Perfect Diveris being read not only by divers; Divers, on the other hand, will certainly be happy to update their knowledge about the principles of
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nutrition before and after diving, which I remind at the end of this article. Let's start by explaining the phenomenon of what my non-diving friends are so interested in – how it is possible for divers to drink a soda underwater. If you pick up a closed bottle of soda (I mean a champagne-like drink, but without alcohol), there will be a certain amount of pressure in the bottle. Divers are familiar with the concept of pressure, as the word is declined in our conversations in all possible ways. For those who have not yet decided to practice this beautiful hobby, it should be said that pressure, physically understood as a force per unit area, is a force that has incredible power and can work wonders. It is the pressure that causes volcanoes to erupt and shoot geysers of hot water into the air. Steamboat in Yellowstone National Park in the USA can shoot water from the ground to a height of 100 m, being