sabbath999
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My wife and I use that phrase a bit sarcastically, and apply it to when we do something so utterly clumsy and without style as to be funny even at the time when we do it...
Being a NOOB at diving, I have experienced many, many Moments Of Grace over the last 6 months, but I think perhaps my best so far was during my AOW Buoyancy dive in Kona last month.
My instructor was showing us positions that she wanted us to get into and hold... one of them was head down, feet up, completely vertical. I was over a bunch of hard coral, in a bit of surge, and I tipped up and went vertical with my fins towards the surface. I got vertical and everything was good... I was using the instructor (about 15 feet away) as my guide to see how level I was, and I was hanging there upside down for about 30 seconds rock solid. I glanced towards my fins (which were towards the surface) and I saw a large school of fish swimming near the surface... I saw the sunlight on the waves as they were going overhead, and I saw how my bubbles were...
*BONK*
Yep, my noggin knocked right onto a chunk of hard coral (not hard enough to hurt either one of us, thankfully).
In just that little bit of time I lost concentration on what I was supposed to be doing and it was all over for me... I was living in the house of embarrassment....
Both my wife and my instructor were trying not to choke on their regulators they were laughing so hard...
Ah well...
Care to share some of your "Moments Of Grace"?
Being a NOOB at diving, I have experienced many, many Moments Of Grace over the last 6 months, but I think perhaps my best so far was during my AOW Buoyancy dive in Kona last month.
My instructor was showing us positions that she wanted us to get into and hold... one of them was head down, feet up, completely vertical. I was over a bunch of hard coral, in a bit of surge, and I tipped up and went vertical with my fins towards the surface. I got vertical and everything was good... I was using the instructor (about 15 feet away) as my guide to see how level I was, and I was hanging there upside down for about 30 seconds rock solid. I glanced towards my fins (which were towards the surface) and I saw a large school of fish swimming near the surface... I saw the sunlight on the waves as they were going overhead, and I saw how my bubbles were...
*BONK*
Yep, my noggin knocked right onto a chunk of hard coral (not hard enough to hurt either one of us, thankfully).
In just that little bit of time I lost concentration on what I was supposed to be doing and it was all over for me... I was living in the house of embarrassment....
Both my wife and my instructor were trying not to choke on their regulators they were laughing so hard...
Ah well...
Care to share some of your "Moments Of Grace"?