to plunge the soul

I've never in my life gotten down to scuba diving. Still waiting to give it a try, I suppose. My Singapore-based research regime seems steadily giving way to an (at least) 'provisional' shift to the Malaysian mainland where recent explorations have granted more friends with compounding imageries and open invitations to peripatetic painting and other peninsular overpinnings to social schemes of calming breadth towards offshore isles with semi-ruined hutments near limpid blue waters to plunge the soul...