do it easy::: When I started diving I used to stand on the bottom in a sandy spot to take a pee. Wasn't coordinated enough to pee while I was finning along. Got over that after a while and don't stand on the bottom any more.--------Got no dive "buddies". I fly alone down to SE Florida or the Keys once or twice a month. Most of the people I know can't get away that often. So it's insta-buddy or an OP which supplies a DM (which I prefer). So far the insta-buddies I have dived with have been pretty considerate folks.
Things your dive buddies do that get on your nerves
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I hate one of my dive buddys who is clueless underwater. And I mean clueless... Me, "Did you see the moray eel?" Him, "What moray eel?" Me, "The one with the cleaner shrimp in the mouth!" Him, "NOPE!" Me, "YOU SWAM RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME WHILE I WAS LOOKING AT IT AND RUINED MY PICTURE!!! HOW COULD YOU NOT HAVE SEEN IT?!?!?!?!"
Sorry for the yelling, but this was an actual conversation I had after a dive on a reef in Key Largo with him.
My annoying habit is probably getting irritated when someone is about to do something I know it's going to annoy me!
Sorry for the yelling, but this was an actual conversation I had after a dive on a reef in Key Largo with him.
My annoying habit is probably getting irritated when someone is about to do something I know it's going to annoy me!
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I dive with strangers on the boat.
The three worst were; The marathon racer, took off for the horizon, the wrong way as soon as we got to the bottom. I could not catch up. Then she panicked when we surfaced 200 yards from the boat. Second: the missing buddy. Left me with no notice. Did the quick search, surfaced no bubbles any where near, and no apology on the boat. Third: the newly certified "kid" who was annoyed when I asked him not to swim through the Gorgonians, kicking them aside with his fins.
Other than those. No worries.
The three worst were; The marathon racer, took off for the horizon, the wrong way as soon as we got to the bottom. I could not catch up. Then she panicked when we surfaced 200 yards from the boat. Second: the missing buddy. Left me with no notice. Did the quick search, surfaced no bubbles any where near, and no apology on the boat. Third: the newly certified "kid" who was annoyed when I asked him not to swim through the Gorgonians, kicking them aside with his fins.
Other than those. No worries.
Just because you have a camera, you do not have priority over me to look at something. Don't shove me out of the way or swim in front of me just to get the shot. I will extend the same courtesy to you.
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I had a dive buddy once who literally picked up every single thing I pointed out to him. Look a decorator crab! And he grabs it off the rock and looks at it then drops it so it can float back down. I mean, literally everything he saw he picked up, we saw some rockfish and he even tried to grab them. It was driving me NUTS! He didn't keep anything but it was still making me chew through my mouthpiece in frustration. I think his motto was "Take only memories and leave only destruction and displacement."
Well,... I'm going to tell on myself a little. I probably drive my buddies insane being so slow to get my gear on & situated. I can even have a 30 min. head start, but the struggle of putting the drysuit on, then working my way into my harness, getting the regulators where they belong & hooking up the drysuit inflater hose (Oops, I forgot my computer or my mask), I can still be 5- 10 min. behind my buddy. Usually they are already in the water to keep from overheating while waiting for my slow behind to catch up.
Oops, you're my pet peeve.
Although at least you are cognizant of it. It's worse when the buddy is slow yet makes no attempt to get a headstart, or says they are "ready" when they are not ready then you spend 5 minutes bobbing in the water while they attend to "one more thing". And I hate it when people say they are "almost" ready.
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Pet peeves....hmmmmm.
At Vortex the other day, the viz was pretty bad. My buddy thumbed the dive due to being low on air (1000psi). I returned the thumb and started to ascend, only to find my buddies nowhere to be seen. So, I made my way towards the surface, being careful not to exceed a safe ascent rate, made my safety stop, and found all of my buddies on the surface waiting for me. They had the audacity to exclaim that they were about to send a search party for me! My buddies who apparently had never heard the meaning of a safe ascent rate...Grrrrr. And nearly all of them are "search and recovery" divers in training. Ugh.
There's a DM in charge of their little volunteer "search and recovery" group, and as I was leaving the parking lot, he stopped me and asked, "Why are you leaving? We were just about ready to go into the caves on our next dive." I didn't even know where to start on that one...none of the "search and recovery" divers are trained past OW level, BTW.
So, my pet peeve has got to be pontificating DMs with some kind of superiority complex who put trusting follower's lives at risk...OK. I'm done ranting now
At Vortex the other day, the viz was pretty bad. My buddy thumbed the dive due to being low on air (1000psi). I returned the thumb and started to ascend, only to find my buddies nowhere to be seen. So, I made my way towards the surface, being careful not to exceed a safe ascent rate, made my safety stop, and found all of my buddies on the surface waiting for me. They had the audacity to exclaim that they were about to send a search party for me! My buddies who apparently had never heard the meaning of a safe ascent rate...Grrrrr. And nearly all of them are "search and recovery" divers in training. Ugh.
There's a DM in charge of their little volunteer "search and recovery" group, and as I was leaving the parking lot, he stopped me and asked, "Why are you leaving? We were just about ready to go into the caves on our next dive." I didn't even know where to start on that one...none of the "search and recovery" divers are trained past OW level, BTW.
So, my pet peeve has got to be pontificating DMs with some kind of superiority complex who put trusting follower's lives at risk...OK. I'm done ranting now
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