We were on the deck of a dive boat in the British Virgin Islands, getting ready for our first dive of the trip, and Peter is desperately trying to struggle into his wetsuit, and is complaining that it's shrunk or something -- so, of course, we are razzing him about the whole "shrinking wetsuit" concept, when somebody finally realized that the suit he was trying so hard to put on was MINE.
As fairly novice cave divers, we had done a dive into Upper Orange Grove in Florida. On the way out, I managed to birds-nest my reel (one of the only times that's ever happened to me) and I could not for the life of me get it solved where I was, so I exited the cave by wrapping the line around the entire reel assembly as I went. We got out into the large open water basin at Catfish Sink, and Peter had the bright idea that we would spend some time in the shallows fixing the reel. So he took the end of the line, and began wrapping it between his hand and his elbow, the way you would roll up a rope . . . which worked great, until it slipped off his elbow. The next thing we knew, we had a hundred feet or so of bright yellow cave line floating loose around us. Needless to say, that was a MUCH bigger mess to clean up than the jammed reel would have been!
As fairly novice cave divers, we had done a dive into Upper Orange Grove in Florida. On the way out, I managed to birds-nest my reel (one of the only times that's ever happened to me) and I could not for the life of me get it solved where I was, so I exited the cave by wrapping the line around the entire reel assembly as I went. We got out into the large open water basin at Catfish Sink, and Peter had the bright idea that we would spend some time in the shallows fixing the reel. So he took the end of the line, and began wrapping it between his hand and his elbow, the way you would roll up a rope . . . which worked great, until it slipped off his elbow. The next thing we knew, we had a hundred feet or so of bright yellow cave line floating loose around us. Needless to say, that was a MUCH bigger mess to clean up than the jammed reel would have been!