Lost Gear-Poll :11:

[SueMermaid]

My first snorkel is currently laying at the bottom of the Blue Hole in Belize. And my combination light/strobe is someplace near the bow of the Duane. Anyone seen it?

 

[wedivebc]

How many of you have lost gear, and what gear have you lost, and under what circumstances was it lost?

Just had a UK D8R fall off the handle as I was getting in the boat. Although it was still turned on and I saw it sink the current was too heavy for me to expect to find it if I were to go down so I left it.
I remember Uncle Pug posts about, asking for and receiving some divine assistance in a similar situation. Hey UP wanna dive Port Hardy?

 

[dazedone]

Had a camera fall overboard. Since I just bought it, Citibank proteciton plan bought me a new one.

I have lost 3 Tusa Visualator Masks:
-One slipped off my head and shattered all over the dive boat deck.
-One on a wicked surf entry.
-My buddy lost my 3rd one in during a rescue class in a gear removal drill.

LDS giving the rescue class sold me a new mask at cost. They didn't have the black skirt visualator in stock, so they conviced me to buy a ScubaPro mask. I love it and it doesn't leak like the visualator did.

I also lost my wedding ring, but we found it using a well-coordinated U-pattern. My wedding ring does not go near a dive boat anymore.

 

[sea nmf]

I lost my wrist computer at the beginning of a dive and found it at the end of the dive. It was a night dive, too! This is an old model with a strap that isn't all that tight. It was new and I wasn't quite used to the strap yet. It just fell off my wrist (too loose).

 

[jrdivagrl]

I was diving in LJ, CA and the waves were very big that day. I was with my dive master btw. We were trying to get past the waves and my mask nd snorkel just got knocked of my head. we couldnt find it. But luckily the previous day we were in the canyon and found a mask and snorkel. I used that and finally when we got past the waves, my divemaster reached for his fins, attached to his D-ring, via a carribeaner and the waves and ripped his D-ring off. We headed back in. Coincidentally when we got back to the shop we figured out that there had been a floater that day too!!

 

[downunderjenn]

Like I'm telling you! You just want to go see if you can find it for yourself.

If you filled out your profile, I could figure out where you dive. Currently, though, I'm trying to recover my own gear, which won't happen for a long while. Until then, back to the shop for a new mask.

 

[Spectre]

I had a run of good luck for a while... a couple years since my last lost mask.

Then I lost my knife on the drop for the Hydro Atlantic, and then lost my new reel on the Algol.

*shrug* that's part of diving!

 

[alemaozinho]

lost a cheap dive light once (last year uk c4) in twelve foot seas,had it attached to a d-ring and it got wetched on the boat ladder and when i climbed back in it was gone,the lesson i,ve learned from that is to mount my gear on the chest d rings so that upon reentering nothing dangles away from me,peace

 

[plsdiver4377]

Fin in Cozumel, light and gloves in the Keys. Wife lost Zeagle weight pouch in the Keys and Tusa Visualator in Cozumel.

Oh well, **** happens.

Have found several masks, a light, and quite a few weights. Never what I would like to have for myself though.

 

[Quarrior]

Had my Aladdin Pro strap loosen up once to many times last weekend in really murky water. It's sitting at the bottom of Bowling Green resevoir.