My loser moment

[TheHobster]

after 35 years of diving, where to start?

I have literally forgotten EVERYTHING: WB, boots, fins, hood, gloves, reg, BC, WS

Have gotten in w/o weights on; have started descending with air turned off; had a purge valve fall out at 80'+ at Catalina, entered w/o mask,

as far as life, had a moray on my left, a sheepshead on my right eyeing the abs I had just picked and laid on my chest under a rock that I had take off my BC/tank to get under

had a slap strap on a brand new mask, Rx in it etc - back roll off a boat, slap strap came off, as I descended the seal broke and mask was gone

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Calling a hogfish a "hog snapper" is a pretty good loser moment too. There's no such thing as a hog snapper.

Well, correcting someone incorrectly would qualify as well... learn a bit about fish names, you will find you arse in your hand...

 

[Wakeboardr]

I had just bought new Zeagle regulators before a trip to Coz. Thought I'd help out the DM by hooking up my regs and I put the 1st stage on upside down with the valve facing my bc. As we're riding out to the dive site I realized what I had done. Felt like a total newb and was hoping nobody noticed. Of course I had to reverse everything before diving. If anybody noticed, they didn't say anything.

 

[Ann Marie]

Once I spelled loser, "looser" everyone thought I was easy...

Have we met?


:joke:

 

[gary-ramey]

I was certified a year before my wife. When she did her open water I ask the instructor if I could go with her. He said "fine but since you'll be diving with us I expect you to do the tasks with your wife". I replied "no problemo" as confident as ever with my 20 open water dives under my belt. I figured I'd show the nubes how great I was. Well it was 56 degree water and it was the 2nd open water dive. I was ask to ditch my reg and recover. Since I had been through this before and it was cold and miserable I kind of just of tossed it, then quick recovered it and all was good. Wrong. The instructor demonstrated it the correct way and then ask me to do it again. A little perturbed I threw it over the back of my head. Then after two failed recoveries the instructor grabs the reg and it began to freeflow. Completely ready to choke down either a lung of water or air I grabbed his octo and we had to do an emergency ascent where I promptly hugged a buoy in total humiliation until the end of the class.

BTW, got back on shore and found I had somehow rigged up my gear wrong so there was a reason the swim move wasn't working right...haha

 

[dvrliz1]

Ok, here is a good one...

Diving with my husband who was also my boyfriend/instructor prior to getting married. I noticed that I was getting some salt water through my reg on inspiration. I informed him after a couple of dives and he said oh, it's probably nothing, (now as you all well know this is the husband talking, not the instructor!)....the next dive, I had had it and quick switched to my octopus. When we surfaced, I kinda did a "ranting" thing like "I'm not crazy", there is water through my reg!!!! He finally agreed to check out the reg. Low and behold, the diaphragam inside had a 1/2 inch slit!!!! No wonder.....

 

[Walter]

Back in the mid '80's I was working as a DM on a boat in the Keys. We were running a tad late getting in from the morning trip, so the afternoon crowd was waiting to load when we arrived at the dock. The switch from morning to afternoon divers went smoothly.

We were ready to go with about 20 divers on the boat and about 20 on the dock. I was standing on the dock to untie the boat. As I finished the last line I pushed the bow out from the dock to make the departure easier. As I pushed, I stepped on the gunwale. Normally, I'd walk to the rear of the cabin where the railing drops to a height of 4 inches over the gunwale and step into the boat. On this particular day, there were several divers working on their gear at that place. Rather than disturb them, I continued walking to the stern where there were no people in my way.

As I reached the stern, I lost my balance and fell overboard. As I was falling, I saw that 4 inch high rail and made a grab for it. I was able to snag it and swing around to stick a perfect landing on the swim platform. The dock erupted in applause, but I was sneaking a look up to the bridge hoping the captain hadn't seen it. I knew if John had seen my screw up, I'd never live it down. Turns out, he did see me, but since in his words, "It looked like you planned it." he never gave me a hard time about falling overboard.

 

[Doc Intrepid]

The best rescue is self-rescue!

 

[El Orans]

I jumped in without fins more than once...

 

[tedtim]

I was just starting out with my drysuit and was using ankle weights at the time. We finished the dive and as I was removing my gear the post dive full bladder syndrome kicked in. I could not figure out why I could not get my foot out of the dry suit and the situation was starting to get a bit desperate. Finally, I managed to get my foot out and beat a path to the washroom. When I came back I saw that the ankle weight was still wrapped around the ankle of the suit.