Embarrassing and/or clever diving stories.

[aMc10]

Not me (I swear!) but my buddy. He decided to make sure that my tank was securely attached by giving it a good shake up and down in my BC. While I was wearing it. I weigh about 50 kg, and almost got launched off the side of the pier.

 

[The Surly Mermaid]

Once we were doing a boat dive off Pompano. The girl in front of me was getting ready to do her giant stride off the boat. She grabbed her gages with one hand, reached up to secure her reg and mask with the other. She realized that she did not have her mask on when she poked herself square in the eyes!!! I tried not to laugh, but failed miserably.

 

[Justwander]

When I started diving, I read this site by the hour to learn as much as I possibly could, since I didn't know many divers to dive/practice with. On one thread there was a discussion about safety when doing boat dives. One poster mentioned bringing a bottle of water with you to be kept in a pocket and a sausage in case you ever get left by the boat. From that moment on until a few months later, I truly believed that divers carried a chunk of sausage to eat with them when they went diving in case of being forgotten by the boat. I laughed when someone showed me what a safety sausage really is. In my defense, I thought it was the worst idea in the world, to be lost floating in the ocean left to eat the saltiest/ non-nutritious item possible.

 

[Irregular]

I just got off of the phone with my brother-in-law from RI. He is going through his OW class now and he just told me a great pool story. They were practicing OOA drills. His partner was "OOA" and Bobby was supposed to locate his alternate, breathe from it, then hand off his primary. On the first attempt Bobby got a mouth full of water when trying to use his alternate. Second attempt yeilded the same result. Finally on the third attempt he got air and was able to pass off his primary. When they surfaced, Bobby asked how water could have gotten into a pressurized system. The instructor said that it didn't, but the snorkel that he was trying to use instead of the alternate was not pressurized! LOL!

 

[someguyunderwater]

I once tried to descend using my snorkel instead of my reg. That would be embarrassing enough, but I actually took the time to take the snorkel out of my mouth and then absent-mindedly put it back in again. I didn't get very far.

 

[diver 85]

Forgot my weight belt on the boat one time, last day of diving in March '86 @ Grand Cayman staying @ & diving with Spanish Cove..Would you believe the head of their diving operation happen to come out that day & he just shook his head when I swam back to the end of the boat asking 'would you hand me that weight belt under the seat there'....BEGIN WITH REVIEW AND FRIEND---said it many a time afterward---do they still teach it???..........

 

[aic007]

My first post cert dive was in Coz and after getting into the water I start going through all the checks as I decend, air, bouyancy, equalize ears. All going good till we get down to the bottom and I feel like my face is about to be ripped off. Forgot to equalize the mask. Never forgot after that.

 

[Cyclops_Diver]

Buddy of mine took a surface swim out to a large metal bouy about 120 yards or so from the steps at the Catalina dive park. The bouy is supposed to be pretty close to right on top of the Sujack wreck there. All you supposedly do is swim North, back to the island and there the wreck is in about 100' of water. Once he got to the bouy, he took a compass reading, then stowed his compass and descended....and promptly began to swim the opposite way back out to sea in the direction of Long Beach.

Metal attracts the compass magnet...so he was backwards from the start.

Never found the Sujack, but he did surface up against a Carnival cruise ship....

 

[spectrum]

If you think I'm going to tell the story about wearing my weight belt inside my wetsuit one more time you have another thing coming.

Too much chat while gearing up can be dangerous.

 

[james croft]

I can relate to the unzipped drysuit having done that before as well as forgetting I was in a drysuit and taking a leak...
But I am most famous for my backroll off the side of a boat into 1 foot of water and five feet of mud.