After reading another thread I was just curious to hear other peoples insta buddy nightmares. Here is mine on a recent dive trip.
1. a 19 year old diver begins to cough and hack and not be able to speak at the surface but regains control of her breathing and says everything is ok. She tells the divemaster she has had Asthma in the past but it doesnt bother her anymore. She continues the dive with no other problems though I had concerns and spoke up I was over ruled. (I did not really care one way or the other just had to speak up for the what ifs.)
2. a guy was surface swimming to the front of the dive boat and his snorkel broke. He begin to kick around and cough and show signs of distress. This was a simple fix though as we told him to just put some air in his bcd. This remedied that problem.
3. a more supposed experienced diver on the boat was paired up with a VERY new diver who was herself highly concerned about diving in a new location unfamiliar to her. At 80 feet he had a panick episode and shot up to the surface. (Apparently without any injuries noticeable) He did convince the dive master he was ok to dive the second dive though and did so only to repeat the episode at 40 feet.
4. several of the divers on this outing were for some reason very friendly and tended to be tighter then the schools of goat fish we seen. So close in fact only the neoprene seperated them I think from performing well other duties.
Day 2 same group.
1. We go into the drift dives of Cozumel which is fine this group is doing a little better today. However the ever present swatting of divers with other divers fins was a very real and recurring site.
2. several divers who try to get the same picture at the same time really aggrivated the sea life with some near misses on the defense the creatures put up.
3. upon surfacing the groups really did not surface well at all heads were all over the sea and appeared to be 100s of feet apart. (Which I deployed my Safety sausage to assure I wasnt lost at sea and the EXTREME number of boats that seemed to make a complete circle around us.)
4. it was learned that one person on our group was not paying attention to his air and decided it was time to come up from the bottom with 250 pounds of air remaining at 80 feet. Not a good scenario and he blew his safety stop of course.
1. a 19 year old diver begins to cough and hack and not be able to speak at the surface but regains control of her breathing and says everything is ok. She tells the divemaster she has had Asthma in the past but it doesnt bother her anymore. She continues the dive with no other problems though I had concerns and spoke up I was over ruled. (I did not really care one way or the other just had to speak up for the what ifs.)
2. a guy was surface swimming to the front of the dive boat and his snorkel broke. He begin to kick around and cough and show signs of distress. This was a simple fix though as we told him to just put some air in his bcd. This remedied that problem.
3. a more supposed experienced diver on the boat was paired up with a VERY new diver who was herself highly concerned about diving in a new location unfamiliar to her. At 80 feet he had a panick episode and shot up to the surface. (Apparently without any injuries noticeable) He did convince the dive master he was ok to dive the second dive though and did so only to repeat the episode at 40 feet.
4. several of the divers on this outing were for some reason very friendly and tended to be tighter then the schools of goat fish we seen. So close in fact only the neoprene seperated them I think from performing well other duties.
Day 2 same group.
1. We go into the drift dives of Cozumel which is fine this group is doing a little better today. However the ever present swatting of divers with other divers fins was a very real and recurring site.
2. several divers who try to get the same picture at the same time really aggrivated the sea life with some near misses on the defense the creatures put up.
3. upon surfacing the groups really did not surface well at all heads were all over the sea and appeared to be 100s of feet apart. (Which I deployed my Safety sausage to assure I wasnt lost at sea and the EXTREME number of boats that seemed to make a complete circle around us.)
4. it was learned that one person on our group was not paying attention to his air and decided it was time to come up from the bottom with 250 pounds of air remaining at 80 feet. Not a good scenario and he blew his safety stop of course.