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

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I don’t have anything I am ashamed about so far, but I get @drrich2 with the round numbers thing. I had a dive plan to 100ft, I was at 98-99 and I did not think I cared about numbers, but I felt an urge to extend my computer a foot below me just to register a 100. I don’t know why I did it. It did not change anything but I did :)
 
I don’t have anything I am ashamed about so far, but I get @drrich2 with the round numbers thing. I had a dive plan to 100ft, I was at 98-99 and I did not think I cared about numbers, but I felt an urge to extend my computer a foot below me just to register a 100. I don’t know why I did it. It did not change anything but I did :)
Oh yeah, and I do not count peeing in the wetsuit, because I am not ashamed of it… :)
 
But someday that first guage check could give you early warning that you're going to have a problem.

I check my air very carefully before I enter. Even though, I have a routine that is not to be tampered with or ever changed, I still found myself at 15' with no air one day. I can only assume that I'd been distracted at some point. In this instance, it wasn't a matter of guage checking failure, it was a matter of a closed cylinder.

Be that as it may, I could become distracted again someday and find that I had a short fill.

I always check my guage within a few minutes of entering the water, at least I think I do. :)

No matter what you're diving -- single, twins, sidemount, rebreather -- it's the same process.

Before you jump in you verify you have breathable gas (i.e. breathe three times and check the pressure) and you verify you've got buoyancy (squirt some gas in your BCD/wing).

When you get to the bottom, you check all's OK; gas pressure OK, buoyancy OK.

Then enjoy the dive (but periodically check your gas).
 
Am struggling to answer the "ashamed" part of the original question.

I’ve always been of the solo mentally. I wreck dive solo on a rebreather. Should I be ashamed..?

Absolutely not. I risk analyse the dive before, during and after. I train, I practice, I prepare, I use the right kit, I always take redundancy seriously, I follow checklists, I do failure practice on dives, carry enough bailout, I dive a lot.

I never push more than one thing on a dive. Meaning if I'm diving deeper than before, nothing else must change about my kit and config. If I'm diving for the first time with three cylinders then I make sure I don't change anything else.

In other words, I am confident I have the planing, skills and techniques before the dive.

Am diving this week for the first time since contracting covid a couple of weeks ago. All's fine with the lungs: have checked that out by doing some decent bicycle rides. Am not seeing a doctor as I don't have any persistent symptoms -- it was just a cold/man-flu. Not ashamed at all, but have booked on a shallow 35m/120' to 47m/160' wreck that I've dived before just so I don't push it.
 
Am diving this week for the first time since contracting covid a couple of weeks ago. All's fine with the lungs: have checked that out by doing some decent bicycle rides. Am not seeing a doctor as I don't have any persistent symptoms -- it was just a cold/man-flu.

You know that by just riding a bike no CAT Scan or any follow up by a pulmonary function test or even visiting a specialist? You know that have absolutely no lung scaring without any confirmation of any kind by a medical specialist? You have x-ray vision too?
 
You know that by just riding a bike no CAT Scan or any follow up by a pulmonary function test or even visiting a specialist? You know that have absolutely no lung scaring without any confirmation of any kind by a medical specialist? You have x-ray vision too?

My doctor(s) allowed me to dive after covid without any specialized test, just a standard check up (stethoscope, heartbeat rate measurements etc.). But I have always been asymptomatic, maybe this is why they were so confident...
 
You know that by just riding a bike no CAT Scan or any follow up by a pulmonary function test or even visiting a specialist? You know that have absolutely no lung scaring without any confirmation of any kind by a medical specialist? You have x-ray vision too?
We’ll see how it goes. I fully expect to be here at the end of this week.

BTW have been double vaccinated for months. Still didn’t stop me from catching it from the (double vaccinated) wife.

Also, the chances of seeing a doctor in the flesh is about zero. Would rather leave them to deal with the backlog of people who really need their help.
 
Minor lung damage doesn't necessarily mean the end of the world anyway. I had chest surgery last year and have mild bronchiectasis. Aside from a 6 week healing time post surgery, I'v been all cleared by the specialist

This year i have freedived to 70ft and scuba'ed to 130. Its all good :)
 
double vaccinated for months


What is double vaccinated? Do you mean two doses or do you mean two types of vaccine two doses each?

BTW have been double vaccinated for months. Still didn’t stop me from catching it from the (double vaccinated) wife.
What vaccine(s) did you take?
 
Minor lung damage doesn't necessarily mean the end of the world anyway. I had chest surgery last year and have mild bronchiectasis. Aside from a 6 week healing time post surgery, I'v been all cleared by the specialist

This year i have freedived to 70ft and scuba'ed to 130. Its all good :)

No one is saying "end of the world" or end of diving, one has to be careful about when to get back to the water and there may be need for few months before going back to scuba diving.
 

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