Things you are (almost but not really) ashamed of doing while diving

[Dody]

I am 52 years old and I am supposed to be mentally balanced. But since I started diving, I have always been attracted by the depth. It is irrational. Even though I made myself the promise to never go below 40 meters, I try to reach 40 at every single dive even when there is nothing special to see. Even for a bump dive. Just to see 40 on my DC. If you want to spoil my dive, just tell me during the briefing that the bottom is at 15 meters. Sometimes, I am at 30 meters with my wife-buddy or with a DM that I know well and I signal that I will go to 40 and come back. This has become a routine. Of course, perfect visibility, no current and in the first quarter of the dive. A shrink might say that I do that to demystify 40 meters and feel comfortable at that depth but I don't do shrinks. So my question is: are there things that you do while diving that are not really logical but not dangerous either?

 

[Bazzathemammoth]

No, but I have something with a similar level of crazyness. I'm an electrician and I've always had to fight the urge to touch live busbars. I have an issue with being told no by anything, even the laws of physics.

I guess that explains part of why i like to breathe underwater?

 

[KatieMac]

I check my gauges. Like ALL the time. I must check them every 2 minutes. Not for depth but for air. But that makes no sense. I usually come back with more than anybody on the boat. The only time I've ever been below 700PSI was on one of my OW checkout dives. It's not uncommon for me to come back with 1600 psi after a 60min dive.

Certainly not dangerous. But I can't shake the habit.

 

[rick00001967]

I'm an electrician and I've always had to fight the urge to touch live busbars.

if it helps.....i have touched a live bus bar in a 200 amp 240 volt panel, while on an alluminum ladder, wearing only my socks.

 

[BoltSnap]

I am always on the lookout for the mermaid but she hasn't shown up yet. I am always looking and waiting...

 

[Pressurehead]

I am 52 years old and I am supposed to be mentally balanced. But since I started diving, I have always been attracted by the depth. It is irrational. Even though I made myself the promise to never go below 40 meters, I try to reach 40 at every single dive even when there is nothing special to see. Even for a bump dive. Just to see 40 on my DC. If you want to spoil my dive, just tell me during the briefing that the bottom is at 15 meters. Sometimes, I am at 30 meters with my wife-buddy or with a DM that I know well and I signal that I will go to 40 and come back. This has become a routine. Of course, perfect visibility, no current and in the first quarter of the dive. A shrink might say that I do that to demystify 40 meters and fell comfortable at that depth but I don't do shrinks. So my question is: are there things that you do while diving that are not really logical but not dangerous either?

You may need counseling [a 'Shrink' of some sort], you don't do shrinks, you my need to.
Just never take up sky diving and test the limit of when to pull the rip cord.
40m on what gas mix, Air or EAN32% 1.6 pO2...Or ?

 

[Whitrzac]

I am always on the lookout for the mermaid but she hasn't shown up yet. I am always looking and waiting...

250ft on air aught to do it, haha

 

[BoltSnap]

250ft on air aught to do it, haha

I want to cherish and REMEMBER my experience with her...

 

[boulderjohn]

In my experience, what you describe is extremely common. Working with imperial units, in my early diving, when I was in the neighborhood of 30m/100 feet, I would frequently dip a little so I would be in triple figures when I logged the dives. That did not last too long with me, but I saw it with many others. Once when I was in Bonaire, I dived with a group, and we planned a dive with a maximum depth of 80 feet, but, sure enough, two of them decided they had to go to 100 feet so they could say they were at 100 feet. Of course, the result was they were low on air way before everyone else, and it screwed the dive for the rest of us.

 

[Scared Silly]

Hmm, from the thread title I thought this thread was going to be about peeing while wearing a wetsuit.