Crazzzzzyy Scuba Underwater Campfire Stories!

[fishy ms fishy]

Attention, divers! It's time to share your deepest, darkest, crazyest, silliest, or....yeah stories from good ol' New England! Was it a tap-dancing lobstah? A juggling sea bass? Or a dive buddy that was ACTUALLY not anal? Tell all!

 

[reefseal]

Welcome to the board. I was about your age when I first got certfied. ('It was many moons ago in '79) My oldest son (11) is chompin on bit to get his cert. He has only done Scuba Rangers and Sassy in Bonaire. It's different diving here locally than in warm vacation dive sites. Hope he stays with it after his first New Engalnd dive after his OW cert.

The wierdest thing I saw was today. I saw a seal while diving Folly Cove today. Sort of freaked me out as didn't expect it. My bubbles must have spooked it away. As I surfaced, there were some people that were topside looking at it as well so I know I wasn't hallucinating. The only seal encounters I've ever had were diving off Isle of shoals. There is a Dive boat operator (Captain Rob's out of Rye NH) that does Seal charters. I highly recommend it.

This wasn't as good as encounter several others had with baby Beluga whale ("Poco" that others came across this year. There are several postings on board so if you search, can see picture of it.
http://www.scubaboard.com/t51239-.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/t79695-.html
Unfortunately, it died. Very sad.


The only other wierd thing is that I managed to collect a ton of golf balls. You would be amazed how many people drive golf balls into ocean. (I have a 5 gallon pail full. I would hate to surface and be wacked by a ball.

 

[Fly N Dive]

havent had any crazy dives in NE, but cant wait to hear some of the stories

 

[fishy ms fishy]

Yeah, hahaha when diving in Curacao (I'm a New Englander so this counts as New England), we all had a lovely time collecting golf balls. I had stuffed my BC full of them, with the thoughts that I could sell them cheap, maybe buy a mansion. Of course, at that time some all-star golfer decided to yes, drive one into the ocean (they HAVE to be doing that on purpose...no one is THAT bad) and it bonked off my mask. Yeah my whole bounty of gold balls fell back onto the ocean floor, and I figured that since I had used like, a bajillion PSI, that it would be a good time to surface.
Another crazy experience was in the Bahamas, roughly 3 years ago. We dove in a place appropriately dubbed "Shark Reef" and all settled into a nice circle about 50 or 60 feet down. We were all so busy "ooohing" and "aaahhing" that no one noticed the 8 ft long reef shark cruising towards us. It weaved between us for a while before passing by me and dissappearing into the blue. All of a sudden, as if on cue, I felt a huge "WHUMP!" on the back of my knee. Thinking it was my silly divemaster, I turned around only to find my 8 ft long friend swimming behind me. It was AMAZING! Plus I had this awesome battle scar, a huge bruise going down my leg, for a month or so after. Hope to hear other cool stories!

 

[Fly N Dive]

if the dives dont have to be in NE then i have a few.

well in the BVI's the summer before last on a ActionQuest trip, we (like 8 divers) had a giant matrix style uw fight. lots of fun!

another fun dive was last summer when on another AQ trip on the last dive before going home, as you can see from my avatar i decided it would be fun to bring my sunglasses as well as a mask!

 

[RICoder]

...this one time diving off Bull Point in Jamestown...I had 20 FEET OF VIS!

 

[ClassAction]

Don't some people warn about diving w/ seals because sharks can get confused and attack?

Welcome to the board. I was about your age when I first got certfied. ('It was many moons ago in '79) My oldest son (11) is chompin on bit to get his cert. He has only done Scuba Rangers and Sassy in Bonaire. It's different diving here locally than in warm vacation dive sites. Hope he stays with it after his first New Engalnd dive after his OW cert.

The wierdest thing I saw was today. I saw a seal while diving Folly Cove today. Sort of freaked me out as didn't expect it. My bubbles must have spooked it away. As I surfaced, there were some people that were topside looking at it as well so I know I wasn't hallucinating. The only seal encounters I've ever had were diving off Isle of shoals. There is a Dive boat operator (Captain Rob's out of Rye NH) that does Seal charters. I highly recommend it.

This wasn't as good as encounter several others had with baby Beluga whale ("Poco" that others came across this year. There are several postings on board so if you search, can see picture of it.
http://www.scubaboard.com/t51239-.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/t79695-.html
Unfortunately, it died. Very sad.


The only other wierd thing is that I managed to collect a ton of golf balls. You would be amazed how many people drive golf balls into ocean. (I have a 5 gallon pail full. I would hate to surface and be wacked by a ball.

 

[Soggy]

Don't some people warn about diving w/ seals because sharks can get confused and attack?

Not a lot of seal-eating sharks up here, especially not 100 ft from shore

 

[Mako Mark]

fishy..

underwater painting and ironing I can understand, but how do light an underwater campfire??

 

[fishy ms fishy]

fishy..

underwater painting and ironing I can understand, but how do light an underwater campfire??

lots and lots of kersosene.