What's so special about Italian divers?

[chiara]

I'm Italian, so please don't jump on me before reading the thread through, please?

I read someone's advice "go to Sharm el Sheikh, it's full of Italians!"

Although this is true, I really don't see what's so special about them/us.

We are loud, we are chaotic, we tend to disregard rules, we don't care all that much about environment...;-0

And worst, we are desperately machos.

And you want to go diving with people like this?

I started my diving career outside Italy and will continue so, sometimes I feel so ashamed about my countrypeople I usually go to great lengths to find charter boats who cater mainly for Germans, Scandinavians and Japanese, none of those cope well with Mediterraneans, especially with a tank on their backs.

Ok, I know this might be a :boom: , so I'd better get off the :box: before I get kicked out of this board...

[budgy]

You left out passion and enthusiasm

[Diversauras]

What you see may be different than what we (non Italians) see, I personally would call it alive, which I think you call dolce vita and the French call joi de vive.

Don't sell yourself short. I lived in Cagliari for a couple of years and other that the pushing and shoving in queues I don't have even one bad memory, did a lot of diving there too.

[landlocked]

....Yum!