dumpsterDiver
Banned
- Messages
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- # of dives
- 2500 - 4999
I’ve forgotten at least once about every piece of dive gear and still entered the water. Once I almost entered the water without the entire scuba unit. I’ve entered the water many times with the primary tank off and many more times I finish a dive and discover my back mounted pony is off. I did a 180 ft solo wreck dive with my new steel tank valve barely cracked, open (which made for an abbreviated dive).
I’ve got tangled in a lift bag with a large anchor, got the line around my ankle and the bag dumped air at the surface and I got a fast ride to 90 feet (with a near empty tank). I’ve been tangled in rope and fishing line and float line at least 100 times. I once removed my entire scuba unit to crawl deep in a wreck to get a lost fish/spear and then got stuck upside down and far away from my tank (while solo). I’ve has to fight off sharks with my hands on one occasion and used spears on several others. I experienced dual leg cramps while making a solo surf exit while freediving that nearly killed me. I’ve been nearly run over by a boat several times. I’ve been bent once and probably several other times. I got lost once in a Florida cave with no guidline and zero training. I’ve gotten an unsecured second stage caught in a lift bag and got a very fast, uncontrolled ride from 60 ft to the surface. Once I was dragged to the surface by a fisherman who had lodged his hook around my heel strap of my fin (it was shallow and at night, so not a big deal).
I’ve been stuck in deep mud (in a pond) up to my waist for several minutes while severly overweighted and actually thought I might die (solo). I’ve been keyed into obstructions (a wreck and a reef) both solo and had a tough time getting out. I’ve been lost on drift dives (probably 6 times) and floated for 2 hours while drifting several miles away on the surface while watching sharks and ships pass by me. I ran out of air on my first kelp forest dive and had a hell of a time getting through it to shore. I once climbed a tree and used a rope swing to enter a spring with full scuba gear (and the entry did not go well). I’ve speared large fish that have entangled me with 400 lb test monofilament and left me tied to a wreck (after I dropped my only knife), I’ve chipped my front tooth by bear hugging a grouper and had the metal second stage smash my teeth. I’ve shot my speargun several times from the wrong position and had the recoil smash my mouth. I’ve almost blacked out twice while snorkeling and spearfishing solo. I’ve put my hand in the wrong place and been bitten by eels three times, once I could hear the bones crunching in my hand. I’ve accidentally allowed a large speared fish to smash me in the face and kick off the mask and remove the regulator from my mouth while solo on a deco dive.
I’ve had many computer failures, one memorable bc failure. Once I did a night dive from shore while hand carrying my tank because I forgot the backpack and bc (and still caught more lobsters than my buddy). I once allowed an inexperienced buddy to run completely out of air at 100 feet. I once fell from a dive ladder back into the water and landed on another diver and somehow missed severly injuring him. I rolled off a boat for a night dive and left my light inside the boat and ended up over the side, suspended above the water, tethered only by my very strong dive light cord attached to my waist strap while I screamed for the captain to cut the line. I once recovered a lost speargun and thew the band over my shoulder and continued to hunt and drag the gun around over the reef, without realizing the gun had one band loaded and the tip was pointing at my head for most of the dive. I once found a lost explosive power tip for spearfishing underwater and very casually shoved it down the chest of my suit for safe keeping on the dive, never thinking that the device was loaded with a live bullet (or to check if the safety was on it; it wasn't). I once bought a discount, used air integrated dive computer and did not check it out at all and took it for the first dive to 180 feet and could make no sense of the display for several minutes (on the bottom (until I realized the thing was metric) and the depth of 588 really meant 58.8 meters, not 588 feet. Many times I have laid a loaded speargun down to catch lobsters and somehow I end up positioning myself (after cahsing a lobster) so that the loaded gun is pointing at me. I once got entangled with a steel oxygen bottle (at 20 feet) that was clipped to a rope hanging from the boat in very rough seas and ended up being bashed repeatedly in the head by the bottle and being unable to get away because the suicide clip on the bottle had self clipped to a regulator hose behind my head. I used to use a crappy regulator from work which had no compass and swam way offshore at night, aborted the dive and began to swim "in" for 25 minutes on the bottom until my air was exhausted, only to realize when I surface that I had been swimming straight offshore.
Once I dove with my wife and another couple from an unattended boat in 80 feet in strong currents, got lost, ditched the wife in an attempt to make the anchor line and somehow made it back with zero psi, turned around and the wife was right there on my tail, but we could not operate the boat to retrieve the other couple because the boat operator had hidden the keys (of his father in law's $300,000 boat) because he didn't want anyone to steal the boat (and I was too stupid to ask where he hid the boat ignition key).
I’m sure there are a lot more screw ups, but that is all I can remember right now.
I’ve got tangled in a lift bag with a large anchor, got the line around my ankle and the bag dumped air at the surface and I got a fast ride to 90 feet (with a near empty tank). I’ve been tangled in rope and fishing line and float line at least 100 times. I once removed my entire scuba unit to crawl deep in a wreck to get a lost fish/spear and then got stuck upside down and far away from my tank (while solo). I’ve has to fight off sharks with my hands on one occasion and used spears on several others. I experienced dual leg cramps while making a solo surf exit while freediving that nearly killed me. I’ve been nearly run over by a boat several times. I’ve been bent once and probably several other times. I got lost once in a Florida cave with no guidline and zero training. I’ve gotten an unsecured second stage caught in a lift bag and got a very fast, uncontrolled ride from 60 ft to the surface. Once I was dragged to the surface by a fisherman who had lodged his hook around my heel strap of my fin (it was shallow and at night, so not a big deal).
I’ve been stuck in deep mud (in a pond) up to my waist for several minutes while severly overweighted and actually thought I might die (solo). I’ve been keyed into obstructions (a wreck and a reef) both solo and had a tough time getting out. I’ve been lost on drift dives (probably 6 times) and floated for 2 hours while drifting several miles away on the surface while watching sharks and ships pass by me. I ran out of air on my first kelp forest dive and had a hell of a time getting through it to shore. I once climbed a tree and used a rope swing to enter a spring with full scuba gear (and the entry did not go well). I’ve speared large fish that have entangled me with 400 lb test monofilament and left me tied to a wreck (after I dropped my only knife), I’ve chipped my front tooth by bear hugging a grouper and had the metal second stage smash my teeth. I’ve shot my speargun several times from the wrong position and had the recoil smash my mouth. I’ve almost blacked out twice while snorkeling and spearfishing solo. I’ve put my hand in the wrong place and been bitten by eels three times, once I could hear the bones crunching in my hand. I’ve accidentally allowed a large speared fish to smash me in the face and kick off the mask and remove the regulator from my mouth while solo on a deco dive.
I’ve had many computer failures, one memorable bc failure. Once I did a night dive from shore while hand carrying my tank because I forgot the backpack and bc (and still caught more lobsters than my buddy). I once allowed an inexperienced buddy to run completely out of air at 100 feet. I once fell from a dive ladder back into the water and landed on another diver and somehow missed severly injuring him. I rolled off a boat for a night dive and left my light inside the boat and ended up over the side, suspended above the water, tethered only by my very strong dive light cord attached to my waist strap while I screamed for the captain to cut the line. I once recovered a lost speargun and thew the band over my shoulder and continued to hunt and drag the gun around over the reef, without realizing the gun had one band loaded and the tip was pointing at my head for most of the dive. I once found a lost explosive power tip for spearfishing underwater and very casually shoved it down the chest of my suit for safe keeping on the dive, never thinking that the device was loaded with a live bullet (or to check if the safety was on it; it wasn't). I once bought a discount, used air integrated dive computer and did not check it out at all and took it for the first dive to 180 feet and could make no sense of the display for several minutes (on the bottom (until I realized the thing was metric) and the depth of 588 really meant 58.8 meters, not 588 feet. Many times I have laid a loaded speargun down to catch lobsters and somehow I end up positioning myself (after cahsing a lobster) so that the loaded gun is pointing at me. I once got entangled with a steel oxygen bottle (at 20 feet) that was clipped to a rope hanging from the boat in very rough seas and ended up being bashed repeatedly in the head by the bottle and being unable to get away because the suicide clip on the bottle had self clipped to a regulator hose behind my head. I used to use a crappy regulator from work which had no compass and swam way offshore at night, aborted the dive and began to swim "in" for 25 minutes on the bottom until my air was exhausted, only to realize when I surface that I had been swimming straight offshore.
Once I dove with my wife and another couple from an unattended boat in 80 feet in strong currents, got lost, ditched the wife in an attempt to make the anchor line and somehow made it back with zero psi, turned around and the wife was right there on my tail, but we could not operate the boat to retrieve the other couple because the boat operator had hidden the keys (of his father in law's $300,000 boat) because he didn't want anyone to steal the boat (and I was too stupid to ask where he hid the boat ignition key).
I’m sure there are a lot more screw ups, but that is all I can remember right now.
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