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Gordon thinking that John knows nothing about diving, etc, until John gives Gordon pointers, and he is right, and Gordon wants to know how John knows, and finding out about the NASA pools and what training John had to go through, and John kind of knowing what it's like to be trapped underwater.

I assume this is in response to my tags: #Gordon and John probably have the least in common of them all at the core of it. They’re like chalk and cheese. #The sun and moon. #Gordon is wild and exuberant; untameably colourful and John is quiet and clever; bleached out by life in space. #but gold rank in NASA pools is not as different from Gold in the Olympics as you’d think  #and Gordon and John are as similar as they are different #Sea and Sky #at the core of it #they're both International Rescue blue

and i have a lot of fEELINGS about John and Gordon being so wildly different and yet so bizzarely similar.

The one thing they definately have in common is a shared interest in swimming. If Gordon can take advantage of that to see more of the brother he sees least of, then he sure as hell won’t pass up the opportunity to get John in the water. Of course John knows how to dive - he’s absolutely spent hours and hours repping scuba dives, simulating perfect EVA sessions, in his time at NASA. There are huge similarities between under the sea and being up out of the atmosphere. Both of them live their lives reliant on oxygen tanks and strict rules and the fear that if even the littlest thing could go wrong it could present a life threatening problem. John is so terrified for Gordon when he activates his emergency beacon because he knows what it’s like. He’s been there, floating helpless and weightless with his oxygen running rapidly out and having to rely completely on his own brothers to save him (Thanks for that Eos). But 22,400 miles into orbit there’s not a lot John, specifically, can do for Gordon, except to be the constant voice on the other end of the silent Comm line, praying to hear anything, anything at all, and that feeling of helplessness is about as crushing as the pressure of the depths of the sea and about ten tonnes of rocks.

So yeah, John is very used to neutral-buoyancy diving and its similarity to the weightlessness of space travel and if they’re going to take a swim off the reef they’re more likely to stick together as diving buddies than ever go alone. It’s their thing and Gordon really does need their thing because their spaceman’s really not home nearly often enough - to the point where it’s become almost weird to see him in the flesh, and not just as a pale blue hologram.