sometimes I imagine myself
one thing is precisely the day when
many years ago man for the first
just over the line of the
hills knew an immense creature
of water and that creature of water
there were times when it was calm and flat
times when it ripples when it goes
the breeze blew other times
with a roar of thunder he hurled himself
angry against the cliff
here for the first time that day
the man had discovered the sea from
that day attracts him and rejects him and
causes in him bunches of emotions
positive as well as dark ancestral fears
it took many years for man
find the courage to soul carli those
never by peoples like the Vikings
or the Phoenicians and personality later
as a Cristoforo Colombo Magellano
amerigo vespucci and if we want to stay here
talking about how much space
reflection the man has taken himself before
immerse yourself in those seas
this speech and would risk to last
too much because the first attempts to
freediving are recorded
around the ix century before Christ
however I am not here today for
conduct a historical treaty
on the exploration of the seabed
because maybe this is something that is
been done too many times
today I am here to talk to you about one
specific branch of that exploration
which is perhaps the challenge to the unknown for
excellence or scuba diving
with self-breathing nowadays
in Italy there are about 5,000
patented divers means that
these people have followed a course of
training and obtained a certificate of
competence
data in the hand means that in our
country one person out of 12 thousand access to
what the underwater environment and the
remaining 11,999 remain
the use and exploration of the seabed
pay attention to 70 percent
of the earth’s surface
however the underwater activity in the
people’s head is linked to a
repertoire of beautiful images
images that we can see all
days in honey documentary films
the truth is that the moment you get there
finds having to go from the dream
powered by those real images
and own practice of the activity is like
a rude awakening
I joined up until a few years ago
the image of a diver simply
to the supple human figure that canister
in feet feet fins you bea
absence of gravity and time
suspended in those beautiful places
the truth is that I ignored it and maybe it was
most of you ignore what’s there
behind that image of serenity
truth is that behind that image is there
a very hard physical training
and also theoretical because there is also one
theoretical part of the preparation e
the truth is that in his challenge
to the unknown, a diver exposes himself to
a whole range of risks that
they must be minimized through care
obsessive of detail
then at this point maybe you will stay
asking why to challenge the unknown e
why pay to do it
here I am in the next ten minutes
I will try to make you understand what it means
an activity like diving
above all it is an immense school
of love towards oneself after which you
I will explain how this activity can
be a school of love for nature
and finally how can a school be
of love towards others
I realize that it is an answer
hard to give is hard for me to
formulate and perhaps partly for you
understand the main cause of
this difficulty we say is the fact that
perhaps talking about this topic
divers tend to take for granted
feelings and emotions that are not
at all common
because they belong to a world that is
we want or not is a world that there
it will always remain foreign however
our goal is my goal today
here it is not to fully understand
this world
how much more to make you understand the
beauty and the teachings it has
to offer us
first of all there is to say that for me
diving under water is a kind of
return home because most
you know it will know that life has
originated in water and therefore this
back in the water is a kind of
call rooted in our DNA and that
then it was inhibited over the centuries
because of the awe that
man tries against the sea
here and before I was talking about the relationship
that exists between man and the sea
this relationship is a relationship
substantially ambivalent that is done
of two polarities and these two polarities
they are attraction and distrust when
I immerse myself I have to overcome the diffidence
but without yielding unconditionally
in fact, if I’m scared or if
I do not feel well I do not dive but if
I decide to put the leash on mine
fears and to immerse myself I must not give in
unconditionally to what I can
to define in an ironic way the singing of the
sirens or not to abandon the
security fascinated by those places
here is if the accelerator is
the attraction the mistrust must be
always the brake and to do this the
rational self- control is the first
indeed, the challenge is the tools
the unknown must never be a challenge
to your own safety
in fact, underwater more than in any other
place we perceive the sacredness of the
own life and the need to protect it
with all the necessary behaviors
just because we are in that place
of the guests is not our home
in this sense or precisely
rediscovering the relationship between man and
sea
making me realize my limitations
and still making me realize
as much as a feeling like that of the
fear is important the scuba has me
helped me to rediscover myself in fact
when a sport like this helps one
person to fully realize his own
potential
you can really define a school
of love towards oneself
it is also because it has an immense effect
cathartic at every meter that I travel
towards the bottom when I immerse myself
moving away from my daily life is
a meter that I travel immersed in a
world made of colored sensations e
rewarding that even before
float me before my eyes
I float in the head, I do
peace with life and I’m happy to
be in this life
secondly, especially if it is
properly managed diving is one
great school of love towards the
nature
when I find myself slipping between the
corals olea tini and or when I find myself
in a jelly bank or a moray eel
He looks out of his den looking at me
threatening
or still driving me around a desk
of mackerel I feel intimately part of it
of that little corner of the world and me
I feel invested with the task of
protect
unfortunately it happens much more often than
how much do you think you’ll find an envelope
floating in the waves or one
oil stain a few meters from the shore
or again there are backdrops that are
studded with empty bottles e
car waste tires that are there from
so much time that the same environment
he seems to have resigned himself to them
presence
here it is frustrating to see how man is
we often forget that this world exists there
it was given on loan for use and not
we are the only owners of the earth
that we tread on there are other beings there
they are endangered species ecosystems in
growth forests lakes that deserve it
same respect that we give so
blindly to our peers and if you do not
had the strength or simply the
want to think about these other beings
at the very least we should think of the
generation that will come after us to
people like us we will have to
deliver this world with a
ecosystem that still at least is
can define such in such a way that they
can live there in tranquility at last
I was saying at the beginning that the
underwater is an immense school of love
towards others
I do not know if you know it but in case it will be one
of the things you will learn today but i
divers by rule are obliged
at least to dive in pairs and then
even most of the exercises
that we carry on and we do in pairs
and I have to admit it between two people in
this field there is a relationship of trust
mutual that is really reassuring
in fact to normal people maybe
this thing may sound a little strange
because it is about entrusting
completely his own safety in the
hands of a person who maybe for i
first times even a stranger
and as for most of the
our life we live according to the motto
trusting is good but not trusting is better
so maybe for normal people
it almost seems like a nightmare
let’s say entrust your life in the
hands of a stranger
yet for us underwater a certain point
something magical happens
this link of support that is there
under water out of the water turns
in a bond of friendship that is one of the
more true and sincere than I ever have
met in the course of mine
experience
that is, today I would not be here if not there
they had always been my companions
members of my club to support me in every
my project and it is thanks to them
that I can bring on this stage
today these teachings
in fact, they even gave me a gift
let’s say about these beautiful photographs
that you are seeing projected on the slides
and in fact I can do it after some years
to say that their teachings have me
really changed life because they have
changed my way of seeing things
in fact, through diving I learned
that even the biggest of problems this
that we think is the thing that
we will never face calmly and
cold blood you can deal with and
it is one of the most beautiful teachings that I
have ever had
in fact to conclude today I hope to
at least managed to pass one
of the messages I have just mentioned
in my speech and I realize that it is
a difficult thing because diving is
a sport that we all see in
television or documentary in the films but
few people can say they know
until the end it is however beyond the
individual sports beyond individual cases
to resume the speech I was giving
doing the message at the beginning
important of what I want you
to say is that you must never be afraid
of what may be beyond
that hill we were talking about
at the beginning of the speech and very often
we can not see a road either
not even something like a
path to overcome it however when
we will be able to do all our efforts
they will be rewarded because of the things that
they are beyond our own
great limits are the most beautiful ones
because they are hidden and just for me
this step of rediscovering myself
it was underwater
but I know that for other people it may be o
everything else
and in fact I want to say for anyone
he had not yet found his way
follow your heart without reserve and not
never be afraid to face what
there is in the unknown lands because a
I can say this point
the unknown challenge is an experience that
he gives you so many gifts and they are all
the gifts of immense value, thanks
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