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Hi there!! This is Miki Bonny & Carlo Gava and we’re The Ocean Couple.

We’ve been professional creatives since 2021 and since then we’ve specialised in underwater videography and photography.

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One third of your air just to equalise the mask? 😳

🇺🇸 How it works 🤯: the deeper you go underwater, the more the heavier the water above you and the more pressure you feel on your body. A diving mask has a volume of air and that volume has to be at the same pressure as the water that surrounds it to avoid having your eyes blow up. To do this, freedivers gently blow a little bit of air every few meters on the way down to put more air in the mask.

FOR THE PHYSICS NERDS LIKE CARLO 🤓: The average mask has 0.2L (6.7 ounces) of air inside it on the surface. At 100m (330ft) deep, the pressure is 11 atmospheres, 10 times more than at the surface. The original volume is now 0.02L and the remaining 0.18L has to come from our lungs. But 0.18L at 11atm of pressure are 1.98L (67 ounces) equivalent on the surface. Considering that the average air lung capacity for a human at the surface is 6L (200 ounces), a whole third of it would be necessary just to equalise an average mask on such a deep dive.

NERDY QUESTION 😂: How much air are you using on each dive to equalise the mask? “Volume of your mask” x ”depth of your dive in mt” / 10. For example 0.15L mask at 30mt = 0.15x30/10 = 0.45L

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How to have the best interaction with dolphins 🐬👇🏼

🇺🇸 In case you didn’t know dolphins are:

- Mammals: they are easy to spot from the surface because they have to come up to breathe
- Hungry: they are often hunting and if they are, they will not pay attention to you at all
- Fast: They can swim very very fast so chasing them is useless (and wrong), you can move towards them slowly without splashing and they will be the ones to choose to interact ⚡️
- Curious: they can feel your presence in the water, and especially if you freedive, they could be interested in checking you out
- Playful and loud: If they’re in the right mood they will be the ones inviting you to play with them. You will see and hear them very clearly 🤩

Whenever we see dolphins we wait and watch their behaviour then try to slowly freedive down towards them. If they stay we play, if not we leave. There’s a big difference between a genuine and respectful interaction and a forced one.

Which is your favourite shot? Ours is the third 🥰🐬

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🇮🇹 Come interagire al meglio con i delfini 🐬👇🏼

Nel caso non lo sapessi, i delfini sono:

- Mammiferi: sono facili da individuare dalla superficie perché devono venire a galla per respirare
- Affamati: spesso sono a caccia e se sono in cerca di cibo non ti presteranno alcuna attenzione
- Veloci: Nuotano molto molto veloci quindi inseguirli è del tutto inutile (e sbagliato), ci si può avvicinare lentamente senza fare schizzi in superficie e decideranno loro se giocare con noi⚡️
- Curiosi: sono curiosi e possono sentire la nostra presenza in acqua e, soprattutto se ti immergi in apnea, sono spesso interessati a te e potrebbero quindi avvicinarsi per ispezionarti.
- Giocherelloni e rumorosi: Se sono dell'umore giusto, saranno loro a invitarti a giocare con loro. Li vedrai e li sentirai molto chiaramente 🤩

Ogni volta che vediamo dei delfini in mare, aspettiamo e osserviamo il loro comportamento, poi scendiamo in apnea lentamente. Se rimangono, giochiamo, altrimenti ce ne andiamo. C'è una grande differenza tra un'interazione genuina e rispettosa e qualcosa di forzato.

Qual’e la vostra foto preferita? La nostra è la terza 🥰🐬

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5 bodies were never even found 😮 🇺🇸 Thi

Our body does all that by itself? 🐬 🇺🇸

How much faster are freediving fins? ⏱️

🇺🇸 We tried to do a pretty reliable test to see how much faster you can dive with freediving fins (made of fiberglass, not carbon).

Of course you would not actually swim this fast in a real deep dive; I went as fast as I could on each dive to try and make the test as fair as possible in these circumstances. Anyway, the results seem fairly reasonable!

We’d love to add carbon fins and a monofin to this test, stay tuned 😎

Did you expect these results?

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🇮🇹 Quanto sono più veloci le pinne da apnea? ⏱️

Abbiamo provato a fare un test abbastanza affidabile per vedere quanto si può nuotare più veloce con le pinne da apnea (in fibra di vetro, non carbonio).

Ovviamente non si nuoterebbe così veloce in una risalita normale dalla profondità; in questo caso ho nuotato il più veloce possibile in tutte le risalite con lo scopo di rendere il più affidabile possibile questo test, viste le circostanze. I risultati sembrano comunque abbastanza ragionevoli!

Ci piacerebbe testare anche pinne in carbonio e monopinne, prossimamente su questi schermi 😎

Vi aspettavate questi risultati?

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