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		pimlottc on Dec 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Octopus with transparent head caught by blackwater... I've done a dive like this once, it is quite a trippy experience, you really do feel like you are just floating in empty space. You lose all sense of perspective. Even when you're swimming forward, it doesn't seem like you're moving at all.

leonroy on Dec 9, 2020 [–]

Wondering if divers can determine up from down in the absence of surface light?

I’m guessing they could use the direction bubbles from their air supply are travelling...

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