How about doing that first drysuit dive of the year and doing a back roll entry without thinking about the consequences. I swear I could hear the people still topside laughing as I was suspended feet up in the water...
Dumbest things you've seen a newbie diver do
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15 year old shore diving with 16 year old brother runs out of air at 70 feet diving with no pressure gauge or bcd. I did this in the 80's. My step mother who started diving in the early days viewed that as not essential equipment. Maybe she didn't like me. When I realized I drew my last breath and turned to look my buddy/brother was 30 feet swimming the other direction. I'm glad my instuctor not only me mentioned, but TAUGHT me that I could ascend from that depth in a controlled manner with no air.
I have since convinced the step mother what IS required for safe diving. This was early 80's
The biggest problem I've seen with "newbs" has been some instructor left them diving with an amount of weight their BCD can barely float.
The things I see that burn me are usually experienced divers diving in unsafe or enviromentally damaging ways.
15 year old shore diving with 16 year old brother runs out of air at 70 feet diving with no pressure gauge or bcd. I did this in the 80's. My step mother who started diving in the early days viewed that as not essential equipment. Maybe she didn't like me. When I realized I drew my last breath and turned to look my buddy/brother was 30 feet swimming the other direction. I'm glad my instuctor not only me mentioned, but TAUGHT me that I could ascend from that depth in a controlled manner with no air.
I have since convinced the step mother what IS required for safe diving. This was early 80's
The biggest problem I've seen with "newbs" has been some instructor left them diving with an amount of weight their BCD can barely float.
The things I see that burn me are usually experienced divers diving in unsafe or enviromentally damaging ways.
treasurehunter
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Diving in Cozumel at 80' new diver with 2 dives under his belt sucked his tank dry and DM passes him his octo to continue dive.
on the boat we conversed with him about the importance of continuously monitoring your Gauge and seemed to understand. At end of second dive we signaled the DM that we were going up and he signaled back to take along the newbie on our ascent. No problem. On the way up out of curiosity i decided to eye his gauge and at 60' his gage was at "0 !!!!!!!!" so i passed him my octo and everything was fin.
on the boat we conversed with him about the importance of continuously monitoring your Gauge and seemed to understand. At end of second dive we signaled the DM that we were going up and he signaled back to take along the newbie on our ascent. No problem. On the way up out of curiosity i decided to eye his gauge and at 60' his gage was at "0 !!!!!!!!" so i passed him my octo and everything was fin.buckeye_sports
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I took my OW classroom/pool parts as a class in college. There were 9 students in the class. For the final pool checkout, our instructor had us split in 4 buddy pairs and then 1 class leader who would use him as a buddy when needed. After going through our surface checks, our leader gave us the descend signal. Once I got under the surface, I looked to our leader and saw him about 2 ft down with the snorkel still in his mouth. I couldn't stop laughing into my reg when I saw him take a breath and then immediately shoot up to the surface.
Once he remembered you have to use your reg, not your snorkel, underwater, the rest of our dive actually went pretty smooth.
Once he remembered you have to use your reg, not your snorkel, underwater, the rest of our dive actually went pretty smooth.
I have a photo of a dive buddy with a pained look on his face, applying pressure to the top of his head to stop bleeding.
Myself and two mates grew up together and started diving at 18. We were all on holidays doing some boat dives.
Buddy No.1 gets out of the water and takes his tank/BCD off at the top of the ladder, sits it on the gunnel beside the ladder and walks off. (Being the self important bloke he was, the extra two steps over to the gear rack was too far)
Buddy No.2 climbing the ladder behind buddy No.1 cops a set of dive gear, valve first, in the top of his head and near knocks him unconscious.
I nearly throttled buddy No.1 as did the rest of the crew.
Still managed a laugh from buddy No.2 after the steam stopped coming out his ears.
What a good sport eh?
Couldnt resist, heres the pic. We all get a good laugh from it these days
Myself and two mates grew up together and started diving at 18. We were all on holidays doing some boat dives.
Buddy No.1 gets out of the water and takes his tank/BCD off at the top of the ladder, sits it on the gunnel beside the ladder and walks off. (Being the self important bloke he was, the extra two steps over to the gear rack was too far)
Buddy No.2 climbing the ladder behind buddy No.1 cops a set of dive gear, valve first, in the top of his head and near knocks him unconscious.
I nearly throttled buddy No.1 as did the rest of the crew.
Still managed a laugh from buddy No.2 after the steam stopped coming out his ears.
What a good sport eh?
Couldnt resist, heres the pic. We all get a good laugh from it these days
scubajo007
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Dumbest thing I have done as a newbie happened at the end of a dive. When I reached 50 bars, I signalled to the dive guide that I was getting low on air and we agreed that I should end my dive and go up alone as we were on very shallow water and a dive boat were visible from our position. I came to the surface and began to embark, and then I noticed that the boat crew looked a bit confused it was the wrong boat I entered.
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Potapko
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How about someone who knows they are underweighted and has to swim down the first ten feet. Then stays long enough to go into deco and has to grab a big rock to keep from surfacing while doing the mandatory stops.
That was me on my second drysuit dive.
That was me on my second drysuit dive.
Atomic_Diver
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I've seen someone put a Halcyon sticker on an AL80 that has a Tank boot, And a Nitrox sticker on it... Oh wait, that was me lol.. (for those who can't see why thats dumb- Halcyon/GUE/DIR approach to how tanks should be set up are with no boot, and left w/o a Nitrox sticker on it)...
This isn't exactly a stupid thing to do, just a lack of situational awareness.
During the briefing for OW checkout dives, I remind my students to tow their buddies towards the boat. Inevitably one group swims away from the boat so I have to call to them to turn around. During the debrief, I usually tell them that swimming to the boat is a lot easier than swimming to Cuba.
During the briefing for OW checkout dives, I remind my students to tow their buddies towards the boat. Inevitably one group swims away from the boat so I have to call to them to turn around. During the debrief, I usually tell them that swimming to the boat is a lot easier than swimming to Cuba.
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