2007 Remembered - Your Worst Dive

[Rick Inman]

Sister to this thread (2007 Remembered - Your Best Dive), tell us the worst dive experience you have in 2007.

 

[Walter]

2008 has yet to start.

 

[Rick Inman]

2008 has yet to start.

Duh! Thanks Walter, I fixed it.

 

[Walter]

I knew I should have quoted you, now it looks like I'm drunk.

 

[Walter]

Duh! Thanks Walter, I fixed it.

Happens to us all.

 

[Walter]

To answer your question - I didn't have any bad dives in 2007. The worst of a very good lot would be March 3 on Abby Two out of Pompano Beach when I got Man 'O War tentacles wrapped around my neck.

 

[1_T_Submariner]

The dives I missed while working.

Ok had one that the plan fell apart got seperated then lost had to surface to find each other (25 feet of water in the first 10 minutes).

 

[Gary D.]

Sister to this thread (2007 Remembered - Your Best Dive), tell us the worst dive experience you have in 2007.

Mine was just last Tuesday (121807) on the most simple, easy, laid back, relaxing dive I’ve had in months. Other than that one they were all good.

Hey Walter, thanks for straightening out Rick. He’s missed a Deco Stop or Two.

Gary D.

 

[ianw2]

Yeah...I caught that, too, Walter. I was wondering if we had a time traveler with us.

Apparently Rick managed to "dive" in and make a quick edit!

Worst dive...when my dive partner and I got to Laguna Beach back in May and found the red tide so thick the vis was less than a foot. We didn't even get wet that day...

Cheers!

Ian

 

[Jimmer]

Well I had arranged a small charter with my shop to go see the Crystal and the Tradewinds in Lake Erie. 2 wrecks that are supposed to be fantastic. Both in about 120 feet of water and very close to each other. But a bit of a haul to get to them. So we load up the boat and off we go. An hour or so into the boat trip, the boat starts pulling to the right, and we throttle down to realize that the right outdrive wasn't powered. So we can the dive and turn around. My instructor and his wife offer to stop at another wreck on the way so we can at least get one dive done and it won't be a total bust. We stop at the wreck of the Browns Brothers in about 130 feet of water and gear up. I had dove this wreck twice and my cousin had been on it once. We head down and are enjoying a nice dive with great 70 foot viz, and he comes over to me and points at his valve. I figured he wanted me to look it over, so I do, and there are no bubble or anything, I give him the ok and we continue. About 2 minutes later I see him figgiting with his new camera and looking up like he's trying to spot bubble, and then he swims at me like a rocket, pull the reg out of his mouth and he is having a massive freeflow. He holds up his gauge a full digital Oceanic, and the numbers are just plummeting and he's starting to panic. I pull my reg out of my mouth and offer it to him, he still trying to stop the freeflow in his reg, so I pull it out of his hand and stick mine in his mouth and reach back and shut off his valve, grab a hold of his BC and we start our free ascent. Fortunetly that was the worst of it. He calmed down and we managed to do 2 safety stops at 30 and 15 feet, before getting to the surface, where he promptly decided he was going to leave the new camera on the boat on deep dives at least for a little while.

It could have been a lot worse, but with the busted boat, missing 2 ships I have been desperate to see for 2 years, and having the freeflow, it added up to my worst dive this summer.

Jim