dry suit humbled me

[boomx5]

Believe it or not I had a blast and don't worry about a thing. We've all been there and struggled with our first dives in a drysuit. I told you about my first dive in a drysuit that was in 80' of water. What I forgot to tell you was that I was soooo scared of a runaway ascent, that I hardly added any air at all. When I finally took my suit off, I had massive hickies everywhere; and I mean EVERYWHERE!

 

[boomx5]

When are you two going to come up here and dive with me?

very soon.

 

[diverrick]

You've got mail

 

[Bob3]

did your buddies tell you about their first drysuit dives?

I remember when one of my cohorts got himself a new suit & weight belt... he's a short wide guy, built like a bulldozer, so he had a good 12" of extra length in the suit's legs.
He was sawing some piling off at the mudline & his feet started filling with air. (got sand/mud in the inflator button & it stuck ON when he laid on it)
He started to rise, feet first, at which time the 65 lb weightbelt shifted to his armpits. I heard him cussing over the comms when his feet broke the surface & he was bobbing there upside down like a channel marker. All he needed was a bell 'tween his heels.
I pulled him in by his hose while I picked up a few new swear words in a couple different languages. He uses dog collars around the ankles now. wink

 

[Genesis]

Drysuits are fun when you first get them..... someone should have shot video of me in my pool when I got my first one It would have been great comedy.....

 

[Uncle Pug]

He started to rise, feet first, at which time the 65 lb weightbelt shifted to his armpits. I heard him cussing over the comms when his feet broke the surface & he was bobbing there upside down like a channel marker. All he needed was a bell 'tween his heels.

Love it!!!

 

[Uncle Pug]

By the way... why do the call you Bob? And is there a significance to the 3?

 

[Bob3]

By the way... why do the call you Bob? And is there a significance to the 3?

Actually... nobody really calls me Bob, all my friends know my "secret name".
As far as the 3 goes, a salvage outfit I used to work for on the Great Lakes always had the number 3 in their barge & derrick's name & nobody knew why.
I'm just keeping up the tradition.

 

[Uncle Pug]

That was a joke bob bob bob.... a play on words so to speak.

 

[Bob3]

Uh oh... about to break out into a Beach Boys song.... hey, I have a sister named Barbara...
whoa... this is getting wierd.
Maybe i't still a holdover from yesterday when I was almost sucked into the 4th dimension after i got this darn Linux machine to copy a folder into itself, folding space & time back into itself and disappearing from this physical plane of existence ...