chrpai
Contributor
I was wondering, what rules have you knowingly and intentionally disregarded in your career? I'll start with a pretty bad one for me:
After being a very active diver from 2000 - 2005, I retired from diving due to medical reasons for my wife. 5 years later she was better and we were in Jamaica and I finally had an opportunity to dive again.
I hadn't been diving in 5 years but that wasn't the problem. I'm the kind of person who has diving in his blood and can get back on the bike with ease. I felt perfectly comfortable in the water the entire week and I was diving with a DM who was really my buddy. See, I had met this DM on previous trips to Jamaica and we had dove dozens of times together often just the two of us as a buddy team. We were comfortable with each other.
Ok, so what did I do that I knew was wrong?
I intentionally and knowingly dove profiles that I didn't plan or log. I had given all of my dive gear away and although I still had my Suunto Mosquito, I didn't know if it would work so I didn't bother changing the battery in it or bring it on the trip. ( Fast forward 2 years and it does work. )
I spoke to the DM about my lack of a bottom timer and/or dive computer and we agreed that I'd just "stay above him" and it would be "ok". I just dove with my DM buddy for the week trusting that his profiles were good and mine were a wee bit more shallow. They were complete passive "trust me" dives with regard to profiles while I was actively engaged in the other aspects of dive planning and execution. I did make sure my ascent rates were good, that I did safety stops ( albeit of unknown lengths ), relaxed between dives and stayed hydrated.
Essentially, the DM was my 'deco captain'.
I got about 12 dives in that week ( couldn't tell you... didn't log any of them... ) and flew home without getting bent.
So flame away and/or contribute your own confessions.
After being a very active diver from 2000 - 2005, I retired from diving due to medical reasons for my wife. 5 years later she was better and we were in Jamaica and I finally had an opportunity to dive again.
I hadn't been diving in 5 years but that wasn't the problem. I'm the kind of person who has diving in his blood and can get back on the bike with ease. I felt perfectly comfortable in the water the entire week and I was diving with a DM who was really my buddy. See, I had met this DM on previous trips to Jamaica and we had dove dozens of times together often just the two of us as a buddy team. We were comfortable with each other.
Ok, so what did I do that I knew was wrong?
I intentionally and knowingly dove profiles that I didn't plan or log. I had given all of my dive gear away and although I still had my Suunto Mosquito, I didn't know if it would work so I didn't bother changing the battery in it or bring it on the trip. ( Fast forward 2 years and it does work. )
I spoke to the DM about my lack of a bottom timer and/or dive computer and we agreed that I'd just "stay above him" and it would be "ok". I just dove with my DM buddy for the week trusting that his profiles were good and mine were a wee bit more shallow. They were complete passive "trust me" dives with regard to profiles while I was actively engaged in the other aspects of dive planning and execution. I did make sure my ascent rates were good, that I did safety stops ( albeit of unknown lengths ), relaxed between dives and stayed hydrated.
Essentially, the DM was my 'deco captain'.
I got about 12 dives in that week ( couldn't tell you... didn't log any of them... ) and flew home without getting bent.
So flame away and/or contribute your own confessions.