My "Places I Won't Dive" List (and yours...)

[Barracuda2]

A local pig farmer, running a rather large operation, asked me once if I would dive his pig pond. (that's where pig crap goes for breakdown and liquification to be later sprayed on fields for fertilizer) He wanted me to repair a valve hooked to a surface pump. He said it would be much less expensive to fix it that way than pump the whole thing out and wade through mire and muck to repair the valve. He was willing to pay big bucks for me to do this. Believe it or not, I actually considered doing it. However, after making several phone calls to various sources in Ohio and Ohio University trying to find out what could/would happen to me and my equipment if I did this, I decided to opt out. No one, and some were "experts",could not give me any definitive answers. To date, that is my most unusual request to go diving, and I've done a few bizarre dives in my day.

 

[Dean810]

I'll probably never dive any place I can't afford! :-(

 

[LavaSurfer]

You can always dive with crocs in Costa Rica.

Now thats diving!
Zero viz and crocs, Yahoooooo!!

Call me a wimp ity_partbut I avoid cold water. Although, Antartica I hear is some really cool diving. (Pun intended). I would go there. I have a friend heading down this year and is going to give me a full report.

Maybe some day I will fork out the cash for a dry suit and change my tune. I know I have to because some of the dives I want to do are in cold water. Brrrrrrrr!

 

[vladimir]

...or dumpster diving after last time...i dont think that was chicken..

Hilarious

 

[DandyDon]

Wow! On a more serious note, Crocs are certainly dangerous. One recently grabbed an American doctor out of a canoe in Botswana. He'd moved there in an heroic effort to help the country fight a 40% Aids rate. Crocodile Kills Medical Professor

 

[rottielover]

How bout the local public swimming pool?

I heard a few people talking about going to the local public indoor pool to practice skills... I'd rather practice in a bath tub... Ultra high chlorine content, not to mention the kiddies piddling in the water!!

 

[Dean810]

A local pig farmer, running a rather large operation, asked me once if I would dive his pig pond. (that's where pig crap goes for breakdown and liquification to be later sprayed on fields for fertilizer) He wanted me to repair a valve hooked to a surface pump. He said it would be much less expensive to fix it that way than pump the whole thing out and wade through mire and muck to repair the valve. He was willing to pay big bucks for me to do this. Believe it or not, I actually considered doing it. However, after making several phone calls to various sources in Ohio and Ohio University trying to find out what could/would happen to me and my equipment if I did this, I decided to opt out. No one, and some were "experts",could not give me any definitive answers. To date, that is my most unusual request to go diving, and I've done a few bizarre dives in my day.

Contamination, AND zero viz! What could be better! LOL!

 

[Doc Harry]

KEY WEST, FLORIDA is one place that I won't dive again. What a waste of time and energy.

I was there for a week of diving. Got only three trips on a boat (six dives total) because all the dive operators kept cancelling for lack of interest. (Now I understand why.)

"Oh, goodie, another dive on a 25-foot deep reef."

The one trip that was supposed to be a deep dive was changed at the last minute - without informing me until we were underway - to accomodate a last-minute group of snorkelers.

The water was so cold the snorkelers got out of the water early and refused to go back in for the second "dive."

 

[drbill]

Actually it depends on the river... and the crocs. I was free diving a river in Australia and came face-to-face with a croc. However, it was a freshwater croc rather than the man eaters that frequent the larger rivers and ocean coast in the region around Darwin.

Where wouldn't I dive?

1. The Arctic Ocean (I guess I'm just a WWW, although I'll give the Antarctic a try)
2. freshwater lakes and reservoirs (unless absolutely necessary... I'm a marine biologist)
3. ... still thinking...

 

[RockPile]

Well, shoot DrB. I'm an acquisition consultant and I still dive lakes.

True, they aren't nearly as colorful or warm (most of them), but I have a good time in a few of them. I love L. Mich.