PEOPLE - Don't Lie about your dive experience!!

[texdiveguy]

After getting back on the boat, and he told me he had forgotten about the safty stop, and that he hadn't dove in a few years, I knew I had did the right thing.. and he was thankful for it. So yeah, it worked out for the best.

Yea he should have been much more honest with the boat crew......just remember you have to watch your safety first......I am glad this time it worked out......he might have just swam you both the the surface, I bet he remembers those 'stops' on his next dives!

 

[almitywife]

....... THe single told the DM that he was experienced and had just dove 2 weeks prior... he was from Isreal and not really good english and even worse spanish

.....Once on board, he lets the truth out that it had been a few years since he had dove and that he forgot about doing a safty stop.......

could it have been a miscommunication due to the various languages?? its wasnt 2 weeks since he dived but 2 years

either way nice of you to help him out - to be honest i dont know if i would have been so quick to react to assist him (one reason being im rarely within arm/grabbing distance of a buddy, especially in tropical locations)

 

[river_sand_bar]

could it have been a miscommunication due to the various languages?? its wasnt 2 weeks since he dived but 2 years

Actually, this may be a good lesson for myself as well.... to really make sure of understanding each other if there is a language difference. Take that extra minute. Plus I got some really good pics as well...

 

[Thalassamania]

So ... what's the hand signal anyway? My hand signal story.

 

[river_sand_bar]

Great Story.... guess I couldn't do the hand signal with a 3 finger mit...

My hand signal is this...... 1 finger then a 5 finger then vertical hand under a horizontal hand followed by 3 fingers and finally a stop hand.

So its a 15 ft ceiling and 3 min stop.

 

[Garrobo]

Go Sarah!!!

 

[Gombessa]

vertical hand under a horizontal hand

Like a "time out" signal? IIRC, that's a common "I'm at half gas" signal.

 

[Wookie]

The time out signal to me means time to turn the dive, or time to end the dive, depending whether or not I'm turning or ending. The time out signal is followed by a thumb out or a thumb up.

 

[Gombessa]

The time out signal to me means time to turn the dive, or time to end the dive, depending whether or not I'm turning or ending. The time out signal is followed by a thumb out or a thumb up.

Sounds like "time out" is a candidate for most-ambiguous-hand-signal-ever.

Appropriately enough, the least ambiguous hand signal I know is readily understood above as well as below the water

 

[Puffer Fish]

could it have been a miscommunication due to the various languages?? its wasnt 2 weeks since he dived but 2 years

either way nice of you to help him out - to be honest i dont know if i would have been so quick to react to assist him (one reason being im rarely within arm/grabbing distance of a buddy, especially in tropical locations)

It also could be that he learned before the 3 minute safety stop...and I'm with Thal... not sure what that signal is... ok, once I get past a couple, I forget them...

And he may have been diving last week... takes more than a couple dives to get one's sac rate down.

But it was really nice to see that they came up together (when a lot of people would stay down and wave goodby as they went to the surface alone.)