I love Halloween and I think it’s a brilliant celebration! Facing our fears by embodying them and laughing at them is, in my opinion, the best way to exorcise them and make them harmless.

I know that for most divers the greatest fear is that the dive gets canceled… but I also know that, like all those who revolve around the sea, the “Diver” loves telling stories — mostly true, but let’s be honest, often enriched with details to make them more interesting, just as the finest seafaring tradition demands. So I decided to browse the internet and see how many ghost stories — or rather, urban legends with a scuba-diving theme — I could find. The first one, of course, was the old, overused, and completely unbelievable tale of the diver sucked up by a Canadair aircraft and later found among the branches of a tree that had survived a wildfire… how boring.

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