Confessional: Diving Duh!

[northernone]

Well, the idea is a brief recounting of some of our less brilliant dive experiences or goofs.

Mine: repeatedly trying to purge my flooded mouthpiece between tight lips on my refreshed double hose reg while the hunger for air grew.... only to discover an overlooked ziptie had my hose off looking for a sharper dive buddy.

Don't leave me standing! I know someone's left a drysuit unzipped at least!

Enjoy,
Cameron

 

[NYCNaiad]

My silliest one was probably trying baby shampoo in my mask for the 1st time when I was a newbie...and putting so much in the mask that when I was underwater it started to foam, got in my eyes and made me cry for 10 minutes underwater. Ironic since it was the "no tears" formula, eh?

 

[Neilwood]

Third OW check out dive.

Just of the East coast of the UK in approximately 13 deg C water.

Forgot to do my back zip up which was ok as I made my way out (jacket BCD & tank weight kept the water out while doing surface swim). Flipped forward to do a skill and got an instant flood of cold water all the way down my back which immediately caused me to bolt up right and start thrashing the water (for a second or so). Instructor wondering what the hell was going on for few seconds until I pointed to the zip at which point it was his opportunity to thrash around laughing.

Predive checklist now consists of ZBWRAF!

 

[JohnnyC]

Warhammer. I've done it.

 

[DiverDownD3]

On my 2nd OW checkout dive, we were working on sharing air. I was on the right side of my buddy, so when he gave me his secondary the hose came around in front of my face. I thought to myself, this is annoying, so I took the regulator out and turned it upside down so the hose wasn't running in front of my face. Lets just say it only took half a breath before I realized how stupid that was.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I made a giant stride off a boat once with a snorkel in my mouth.

 

[Reku]

My silliest one was probably trying baby shampoo in my mask for the 1st time when I was a newbie...and putting so much in the mask that when I was underwater it started to foam, got in my eyes and made me cry for 10 minutes underwater. Ironic since it was the "no tears" formula, eh?

LOL! That's impressive - I forgot to bring my fins once on a wreck dive - I didn't realize until I was already down so I just crawled along the wall like spider man for the 2 hour duration. Kicking in drysuit boots is almost impossible for me.