Favorite hand signals?

[Ber Rabbit]

Came up with this one during my drysuit training, instructor almost drowned laughing:

Make a fist and tap your thumb against your regulator for "This sucks"

We use that one fairly often though now it's usually preceeded by pointing at someone rototilling the bottom.
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Ruminari]

Since I'm pretty much a shore diver I can't remember if it was my wife or myself which came up with the lets return to the car signal. ( ) just picture moving your hands like your driving a car, we use it for signaling lets return to the car. Had a couple we were diving with sooo confused on our last dive trip.

Then of course there is the pointing to body parts in conjunction with hand signs to sound out phrases. EX. point to your foot for feet.

 

[Scott]

Point to your buddy then use one hand to make the O (OK signal) then place the other hand behind with the palm to the O. This means ‘ok you turkey’

Make the same O, then from behind use the index finger to make the come here signal. Meaning; come here A—hole

 

[kdove]

"You" (point index finger at the offender)
"Stop" (palm open and flat)
"F-ing around!" (middle finger salute rotating in a circular motion)

 

[6gunsal]

haha, I like all the angry signals.

I tried to signal my buddy one time that I thought we were under the bridge (diving in a river), but had no idea how. I tried making an arch with my arms then pretended to be driving (hands on the wheel). i guess he didn't catch on, but we had a good laugh when we surfaced.
He did much better signaling to me that their were fishermen in a canoe overhead. That one was very well executed

For some reason, I just enjoy the unnecesary hand signals and motioning a little too much.

 

[Ber Rabbit]

For some reason, I just enjoy the unnecesary hand signals and motioning a little too much.

I was diving with one of my newer divers for his deepest dive to date (85 feet, warm water). We were goofing around in the shallows when the ham salad sandwich I had for lunch tried to escape through my regulator. He immediately noticed something was wrong so I put my palm against my throat with fingers against my chin and slid my palm up to my chin with fingers extending beyond the reg. I immediately followed that sign with pointing at my purge valve then moving the pointing finger down along my chin following the line of my trachea. He started laughing...

We finish the dive and all come up as a group. When we get to the surface, before I can say anything he tells the rest of the group "She gets this weird look then tells me she's about to puke her ham salad and is trying to keep it down. I was waiting for her to feed the fish!"

I don't know if he understands hand signals or simply reads minds
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[diver 85]

what are yours? They can't be anything taught or found in any manual. Either you or your buddy made them up, or you just did it on the fly.

Me and my buddy last year dove a few times together after getting certified. we had a signal for a big-mac-attack (in case we got hungry at depth). It was mostly a joke, cause I don't know what we would have done in such an event, but we always included our big-mac-attack signal in our pre-dive signal review.

Haven't read all the posts but here's one from another thread like this one last year............Point to either eye, point to your left breast(***), then point to your buttocks.....You Get "I left it behind(referring to something YOU were to carry down for the dive).......

 

[SteveAD]

Along the lines of clenched fist to chest for "low air"

clenched fist to forehead for "low on brain"

 

[shotthebreeze]

Depends on who I'm diving with. I use the middle finger often when diving with friends, but the OK signal is a little more refreshing to see. I'd say that's my favorite...

 

[kdove]

Don't know if it counts as a hand signal, but my husband/buddy will grab a handful of sand, put it in the leg of his shorty, and then "poop" it out to point out a good parrot fish.