What is your biggest Fear in diving?

[Ber Rabbit]

Forget about sharks, entanglement, gear failure etc. For some reason, the thing that strikes fear into my heart is REVERSE BLOCK. I've never encountered it and I don't know of anyone who has but just the idea of being trapped 5m below the surface with the choice of drowning or popping an ear drum frightens me.

Actually you do know someone, me! My sinuses reverse block from time to time. Had it happen on ascent from a 120 foot dive. Got to 50 feet and it felt like the roof of my mouth was going to explode. Nothing I did relieved the pain, I descended until it went away and slowly, ever so slowly ascended up the line. It wasn't clearing and I started doing the math, I'm 1.5 ata from the surface, the volume of air that's killing me now is going to double before I get to the surface. Conclusion: This is going to SUCK. I was actually watching the bottom of my mask waiting for it to fill with blood upon rupture of a sinus. Not a good time for sure. Luckily it just hurt like nobody's business and I was able to make the dive after lunch with no problems, the pain had resolved.
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[inked59]

i would have to say my biggest fear is not being able to dive again! Should something happen to me that would take diving away...that would just be the worst scenario!

 

[Amphiprion]

Being seriously injured by a dive platform or a fixed ladder on a boat in choppy water while exiting a dive and being stung on my face by a jelly during a long deco are probably my two biggest fears.

 

[reefseal]

Being under when Tsunami passes. Tsunami: Letter From Scuba Diving Couple | Misc. Article or getting sucked into a whirlpool CDNN :: Scuba Diver Survives Old Sow

 

[Hank49]

Being seriously injured by a dive platform or a fixed ladder on a boat in choppy water while exiting a dive and being stung on my face by a jelly during a long deco are probably my two biggest fears.

I was doing a long deco stop below a boat in the Philippines and we were sharing a nitrox tank between my buddy and me. I didn't see it but I put the reg in my mouth with a bristle worm on it. It burned my upper lip like a fire. Like a jellyfish. It was annoying as hell since I had to do another 15 minutes of deco or so...but not life threatening.
Are you allergic to them?

 

[Hank49]

This is going to SUCK. I was actually watching the bottom of my mask waiting for it to fill with blood upon rupture of a sinus. Not a good time for sure. Luckily it just hurt like nobody's business and I was able to make the dive after lunch with no problems, the pain had resolved.
Ber :lilbunny:

You are a bada$$ Ber. I can't believe you did another dive after that.

 

[mikescooling]

1) getting run over by a boat 2) Droping my weight belt and needing to swim down to get out. 3) getting sucked up by a drain.

 

[bracko]

Propellers.

R..

i never thought of this until the last dive captain i was on board with mentioned it....

sailing boat keels :shocked2:

silent, heavy, and potentially moving very fast.

 

[j yaeger]

biggest fear is losing a student or buddy.....
don't know if this has been mentioned.
had a student just take off,past divemasters,on a drift dive.....
total mayhem
total a$$ chewing
45 mins and 10 years of my life later!!!!

 

[dive4lifer]

sharks and propellers