Dumb thing - underwater communication.
My buddy and I (my wife and I) were taking one of our "exploratory classes" for PADI AOW - it was Peak Performance Buoyancy. They were of course asking each of us to do the buddah hover with legs crossed while the rest of us were planted on our knees in the sand (seperate b*tch session about this in other threads ...
). My buddy was overweighted, and having problems and kept rotating into a belly up, sinking configuration and hitting the sand tank first - like an upside down turtle. I of course thought this was hilarious, and was laughing through my reg, but knowing well enough to keep that to myself.
We were still fairly new, so new sea life was exciting. While waiting for her, and watching her turtle, I saw some sea life and tried to sign it to her like this:
Point to myself.
2 finger point to eyes.
hand flat waving through water
finger pointing over shoulder, behind me.
She promptly gave me the bird, flipping me off. I was very confused.
As soon as we surfaced, she said, "F**k you" and stormed off without speaking to me. After a cooling off period, I asked her what that was about!?!? She understood me to say, "watch me swim" - like I could be properly buoyant and she should do what I do.
I meant:
Point to myself.
I
2 finger point to eyes.
saw/see
hand flat waving through water
An eel
finger pointing over shoulder, behind me.
Over there
We still laugh about this - and still struggle to work on our communication - both above and under the water.