FuzzyNutz
Contributor
Earlier this year I was at a quarry descending to a sunken trolley, when at 35 feet I noticed a pair of gloves floating past my face so I grabbed them. Turns out they were mine and I forgot to put them on. I had them tucked in the chest strap of my BC before the dive. Didn't notice I hadn't put them on because the water was so warm, but once I hit 50 feet I would have known because of the thermocline.
I've had a very similar accident while snowboarding. I caught an edge and ate it pretty hard. After I got going again, something caught my eye whizzing by from behind, I didnt know what it was, so I caught up to it and saw it was a wallet. Looked at my pocket real quick and saw the zipper was open and felt no wallet! It's such a bad feeling when u lose a wallet, I couldn't believe I found it, without knowing I lost it, sliding down a mountain. Sooooo lucky!
I have only about 70-80 dives, but I still haven't had any problems yet. Buuut, I did have a pretty funny ::almost:: mishap last week. I was on a small boat heading out for a bullshark dive. I was all geared up and ready to go, and I was being briefed on how to descend right when we got to the spot. The brief was, "on the count of 3, backroll off of the boat and meet at the bottom". As he was saying this, I sat on the ledge to make it easier to put on my weight belt. Right after I locked the buckle on the belt, and as he was still giving that short brief, I started to fall backwards off the boat! I just looked up and extended my hands saying, "pull me pull me pull me...". I was saved and we all started laughing that the plan was on the count of 3! What can I say though, I was very anxious to see the bulls! There were only 3 divers and we counted at least 12 sharks. That was such an awesome dive, Id like to share a post about it soon.