Deco/Safety Stop Amusment

[DiveTub]

For those of you that are doing Deco Diving or just at your saftey Stops,
How do YOU amuse yourself ?

Say you have 30mins of Deco in Blue Water; no fish about just your ugly buddy to look at, what do you do to keep yourself occupied?

Or just bumming at 5 for 3
Here are a few to kick you off

1: Practice my Buoyancy Skills
2: Read Magazines
3: Game Boy in a Plastic Zip lock Bag (Not Below 10Ft)
4: Paper Rock Scissors

 

[Asta1227]

Tic Tac Toe or hangman on a slate w/ my buddy
or look at the plankton and such floating by

 

[Spectre]

Perhaps try acting out Shakespeare via hand signals?

Actually, I have a tendancy to do long hangs, even though I'm not doing any deco diving yet. What do I do during that time? Generally try to re-live and review the whole dive.

 

[Drew Sailbum]

I pull out a little vinyl-lined chess board. Moving the little magnetic pieces around provides no end of fun.

Of course this is best reserved for warm water dives with no gloves.

 

[DiverBuoy]

Have full conversations.

 

[TigerShark]

Try to blow a condom.....(*just joking.....)

 

[mddolson]

See who can blow the biggest air -ring

MikeD

 

[socaldiver]

on where I am. If I am out in the mighty blue and there is no reef at the safety stop then I will normally practice bouyancy and amuse myself playing tag with my buddy.

Hopefully, if we are doing a boat dive we can hangout on a reef and just observe the marine life.

Shore dives is no problemo. I especially enjoy the safety stop off Casino Point. there is so much to see and do in the kelp you could actually spend a whole dive right there.

 

[Poseidon]

Don't they have little underwater FM radio's now??? But then again out in the middle of the ocean they're not a lot of stations...

 

[voidware]

What do you mean no marine life? Here in NC there are always fish everywhere (the problem is they're usually barracuda and they're even uglier than my buddy). I like to get out my shiny knife and threaten them when they do that jaw thing. Probably not a good idea though (don't want to loose a finger).

I love staring down fish. Have I told you all about my encounters with two huge Jewfish?

brandon