Atomic_Diver
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I jumped off a 20' high fishing pier w/o my hand on my mask, and it flew off...What did the jump have to do with it? Finish the story!
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I jumped off a 20' high fishing pier w/o my hand on my mask, and it flew off...What did the jump have to do with it? Finish the story!
I would be severely cut to lose some items of my dive kit, but yea it is a risk you take, and just try to be as careful as you can. I was adding up what I wear for doubles diving the other day after a guy I was getting fills from (a non-diver) was talking about how crazy it is that the other day he heard that for cave diving some of the guys have $8000 of kit with them on a dive (probably a big under estimate in many cases ). It works out to about $5600AUD (and I still need to buy proper lights, thermals and a stage)... if I lost all that OUCH. But yea, no point in spending that cash if they're just going to sit at home. This attitude seems to be shared by a lot of my buddies too as I don't know any buddy who leaves kit at home because it is "too expensive".
I've not lost anything for a long time but the items I did lose weren't due to newbie mistakes. A ratfish bumped the bungee mounted compass on a night dive and unbeknown to me at the time knocked it off my arm. I took my gear off in the water to get back into a RIB and a bungee mounted computer popped off. The dive knife came off due to a broken sheath. The dive light had to do with a night dive and a change in how I carried the light and I let go of it by mistake. I lost (and found the next day) my dive fins while walking out of the water due to cold hands and not realizing that I was only holding one fiin.
...and I just lost all the stuff I was supposed to during my life time all in a couple of years.Coverdiver:Coverdiver's steady state theory of lost dive gear
It is nice to have goals !!!! Hopefully you'll enjoy the weekend in spite the mising snorkelAs I said in a different thread... 10 dives, three snorkels. I'm going to try to lose #4 this weekend.