do it easy:This is the voice that tells you not to dive. It's a hunch or intuition that it's not your day to be diving. Supposedly, it is the little light that goes off in your head to warn you of danger. I did one dive where I essentially ignored the voice, and I had another experience where I heard it loud and clear.
Earlier this year, I went on a cave dive that would stretch my training and experience. We had planned this trip for a while, and in the weeks before the trip, I was having second thoughts about whether I was ready for the dive. I thought about all the ways that it could go wrong. My worry peaked during breakfast, and on the way to the site, I had nervous butterflies and knots in my stomach. I had never been that worried about a dive before, but I tried to not let it show. As soon as we pulled up to the sight and I started getting my gear ready, the nervousness was gone and I was all green lights. The dive was uneventful. What confuses me is that if there was ever a dive that I was going to thumb, this would be the one, yet I completely ignored the nervousness, the fear of dying, and everything else that told me to call the dive before it started.
The other day, I was home in my kitchen, when I heard a noise like my neighbor dropped something (I live in a condo with shared walls). I was about to disregard it, but something struck me as odd, and I felt like something was urgently wrong. I ran to the water meter and I could see that the dial was spinning but I knew that I wasn't using the water. I shut it down and looked around the house. A pipe had frozen and burst in my bathroom. Luckily I had caught it just as it happened, so it wasn't a big mess. I'm not sure what set me off, I just had a feeling that something was wrong. There was never a rational thought in my mind that it was below freezing outside and maybe I burst a pipe, but my first reaction was to check the water meter. Maybe, subconsciously, the sound of the water rushing through the pipes bothered me?
The burst pipe isn't as potentially dangerous as diving, but what I can't explain was why one circumstance was direly urgent, while the other was just uncomfortable. It seems like it should be the other way around and I should be less concerned about a burst pipe than the most challenging dive I've done so far.
Does anyone have any insight or similar experiences?
There were a couple of time when I did not listen to the voice.
Got in the water and eventually, when the voice started to turn to a scream. I turned around and exited.
Got out in time before conditions deteriorated. I do mostly shore dives here, so deteriorateing sea conditions means difficulty getting out or needing to be air lifted out.