Confess your SCUBA sins

[RTee]

By the time I did my AOW, I probably had as much exposure (in terms of variety of environments...deep, night, drift, boat, nitrox (certified), limited vis, cold water, warm water, solo diving and towing divers in needs on my octo) as my instructor.

In all likelihood I also probably had more experience than him buddy breathing from a single reg assembly as well and all from my initial training...

Holding my breath...pretty darn hard not to do when swimming lapses (with and without snorkeling kit) underwater or doing the four bottles/eight swimmers circus in the deep end of the pool and having to swim from one bottle to the other...

 

[Porkfried]

I've done less than 40 dives. I've still managed to

1. Dive drunk
2. Dive High
3. Dive Tripping
4. Hit my head on the boat while ascending
5. Descend with my snorkel in my mouth
6. Pet friendly fish
7. Step on a sea urchin
8. Dive one-finned because my foot hurt from stepping on a sea urchin
9. Lose my mask and have to do about 20 dives without it
10. Planned a summer 2012 dive trip which consists of my uncertified friend and I (me being responsible for him) just kinda renting a small crappy motar boat and just kinda trying to dive.

I don't think I'm a sinner, I just think I am a genuinely bad scuba diver who does not value my life nearly enough. Never peed in a wetsuit though, not because I have any issue about it, I just can't go in front of other people, including my buddy. I do count as the 1% of divers who lie about it though because I tell the people who I actually know if real life that I do in fact pee in my wetsuit so that they won't know about my little issue.

 

[Tigerman]

"good for you"..

 

[DeerCreekers]

I've taken my kid out of school so we could go lobster diving.....more than once.

 

[Tigerman]

Poor guy! You robbed him of sitting still at a desk doing theorteical math and made him get physical training and practical math instead!

 

[scubee-do-be-do]

It's nice to see this thread. It gives some human element to some of the more advanced or exprienced posters here. (Even moderators and instructors!)

Having been on this board a few months I have noticed there sure is a lot of 'holier than thou' divers ..Scuba snobbery? Ask a question about something and you get told by 20 people to go work on your bouyancy, then get told by 10 more don't do that. If you are lucky ...someone says 'Oh, this is how you do that.'

Now we find out they are not perfect! .... ROFLMAO

My sins: still developing new ones, but so far I probably go to fast, too much energy. Need to be more patient when adding air in bc, swim a while before adjusting. Yes I touch things underwater, but will try to get better about it.

 

[ScubaTigress]

I grabbed a french angel fish and frenched it

 

[dmoore19]

I pulled a trigger fish.

 

[Tigerman]

I pulled a trigger fish.

If thats the MMORPG kind of "pulling" I hope it was not a titan.. Ive done that kind of "pulling" myself and Im glad it was only a small blue one.
The titan one that I didnt see coming in from a blind spot scared the crap out of me when it appared 2 feet from my mask though. Fortunately it wasnt nesting..

 

[Thiad]

The thought of spending eternity in SCUBA HELL defined as diving Veteran's at night with no wetsuit is enough to scare me straight. I promise not to poke the moray in order to get a good picture - again - really. And that scorpion fish didn't need to stay laying there all bored like. He needed exercise.