In the Beginning…

I’m back, everyone, and today, I post my first samples! Today, we’re going to go back to the beginning.

Well, the beginning as far as I know anyway.

So, throughout all of my collection, the first example of furry diving that involves anything resembling diving gear of today that I am aware of involves a bear’s attempts to go ‘goggle fishing’, which was a very old-timey term for spearfishing.

Today, I will showcase Barney Bear’s Goggle Fishing Bear, released by MGM in January 1949. In this just over seven minute short cartoon, the titular character decides to try his paw at spearfishing with a massive trident and a garish swimsuit.

Of course, he is a miserable failure at said activity, only succeeding at making audiences everywhere laugh at his ineptitude.

Which, I suppose, was the point.

Bear-Wear will make a comeback someday.  Just you watch.

Throughout the cartoon, he has the help of a sea lion. In this case, ‘help’ is a relative term, as he largely causes trouble for the already inept bear.

So of course, right after Barney shoos him away, he runs into a very large and very angry shark.

Barney is a stupid bastard.

So of course, who else can save him from being turned into fish food but our sea lion from a few sentences ago?

A person almost feels sorry for the shark, ending on this indignity. The seal wearing Barney’s equipment is damn adorable, though.

Here’s a few production drawings from the cartoon.

So this brings a close to my first real entry into this blog. What did you all think?  If you want to watch the cartoon in full, a quick search should still turn it up pretty quickly.

If you have any requests, let me know, and I’ll take it under consideration.

Thanks for reading, and I hope to see you all next time!

P.S. And remember, if you befriend a sea lion, you too can have a shark as a motorboat!

 

Welcome

Hello, everyone. I’m known as RagingOceans, and I bid you welcome to my cartoon SCUBA blog. I decided to make this blog because there didn’t really seem to be anything else like it, especially where this will focus; the furry community.

While I’m not a hardcore furry, I do sometimes participate in the community, and hope that the aquaphiles in particular will find something to enjoy here, especially as time passes and I make more posts.

I’ve been collecting instances of SCUBA diving furries in media for a long time now (over 15,000 individual pieces as of this post), and I’ve decided to start showing off some of these pieces to the world at large.  Obviously, I won’t be showing everything I have, but I hope at least some of you will get a kick out of this, and will follow this blog.

To give you an idea of what will be shown here, the spectrum of diving here will be somewhat broad, from full SCUBA, to snorkeling, to free-diving.  As a general rule though, characters here will be wearing at least a mask.  Also, generally speaking, no helmet-based setups will be seen here.

A couple of other things you won’t be seeing here are adult art (do I really have to explain this), or ANY sort of fan art or original characters, UNLESS it’s with the full consent of the owners of said art and/or characters.

Also, this goes without saying, but all content here is copyrighted and trademarked to their owners.

With all that said, I intend on making my first real post soon, so I hope you’re ready to jump in when I do.